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...]
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...]
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...]