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Try a black and white high contrast Lith effect
ByRod Lawton October 12, 2017July 23, 2025

One of the reasons I rate image effects programs so highly compared to traditional image editors is the way they open your eyes to effects you wouldn’t have thought of. Like applying the Lith Border effect in Alien Skin Exposure X3 to this early morning shot of a country church. There’s already a lot of…

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Transform tricky shots with tone mapping
ByRod Lawton August 9, 2017December 4, 2022

Sometimes you get scenes where the brightness range is so great you just can’t bring out all the different tones in the picture. This is lighting problem, not a dynamic range problem. Even if your camera has the dynamic range to capture all the tones in the scene, there’s no way of showing them all….

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