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Get greener landscapes with an Elements adjustment layer

August 3, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Get greener landscapes with an Elements adjustment layer

What I like about Photoshop Elements is firstly that it's a fraction of the price of Photoshop (and available as a 'perpetual licence') and secondly that it's quite capable of carrying out almost all the image adjustments I want to do. This is one of my favourite techniques for enhancing colours and I use it the same way in both programs. It's a … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Adobe, Photoshop Elements, Software Tagged With: Colour tweaks

Create a one-click polariser effect in Aperture

July 25, 2013 by Rod Lawton 2 Comments

Create a one-click polariser effect in Aperture

Polarising filters are used by landscape photographers to intensify blue skies, and you can achieve a similar result in image-editing software, though by a slightly different route. To be honest, it's not really possible  to properly duplicate the effects of a polarising filter in sofware because they use an optical phenomenon you can't reproduce … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Aperture, Apple, Software Tagged With: Colour tweaks, Filter effects

Better landscapes with Color Efex Pro’s Contrast Color Range tool

July 5, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Better landscapes with Color Efex Pro’s Contrast Color Range tool

Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 4, now owned by Google, is a single plug-in that consists of a huge library of special effects - these are displayed in a long vertical list on the left side of the screen. And in true Nik (now Google) style, it shows you how your pictures can look before you even start to work on them. The Contrast Color Range tool … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Color Efex Pro, Google, Nik Collection, Software Tagged With: Colour tweaks

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