Lightroom 4.1 does 32bit HDR.
0While some (many) photographers CRINGE when they hear the letters “HDR” used in a sentence with “photography”, I’ve found that if done tastefully and processing isn’t heavy handed to the point that the image looks like some kind of psychedelic mess, using high dynamic range …
Read MoreWhite to Black – Photoshop Tutorial
Although Photoshop has a fantastic selection of tools, adjustments and filters to do just about anything to an image, their are a few things that are still up to users to figure out the best way to handle. In this case, I was asked to …
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Two for Tuesday – Video Tutorials
So, it’s been months since I had the time to sit down and write a blog entry. And quite frankly, I still don’t have the time to sit down and do a lengthy, formal tutorial. Instead, I have sat down and finished two video tutorials, …
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Color Correction for Dummies. (And everyone else.)
Getting good color can sometimes be a difficult task, but if you follow some of these steps and use the tricks I explain in this post you can make color correction a much easier task. Everyone has their own personal preference on what is “good …
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Color Checker Passport does EXTREME color correction.
I’m sure you’ve encountered this problem before. Lighting conditions that are so bad that even a custom white balance in camera simply cannot fix. And you don’t have time or perhaps don’t have the skill to correct for these color errors on your own in …
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Eye Enhancing and Retouching Video Tutorial
I’ve added a short video tutorial to go along with the older Quickie Eye Enhancement Part 1 and Quickie Eye Enhancement Part 2 tutorials. In the video I show some of the tricks from each and a few new tips not covered in the original …
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Color Correction in Lightroom & Photoshop – Video Tutorial
Rather than show you all of the steps involved in detail on the blog, I decided to just record a video tutorial and post the link here. Here is the before and after comparison. This was taken 2 years ago with a Nikon D70 camera …
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Richer color without Saturation.
Here is a quick color tip that I learned as a professional printer & photo retoucher but use regularly now in my own photography to “boost” color without turning up the saturation. This gives me a beautiful, deep, rich color without touching the saturation slider …
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10 second Teeth Whitening + Video Tutorial
Here is a common problem. Perfect capture, perfect smile, perfect skin tone, yellowed teeth…… Yikes! It’s all too common these days no thanks to coffees, sodas or cigarette smoking causing discoloration to the front teeth. As a professional photographer, we really should fix these sort …
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Skin Softening – Software Comparison
Although we have a number of different methods, plug-ins and applications to do “quick” skin softening for portraits, some are better than others. I am making a quick comparison of several of the quickest, most popular methods and plug-ins. First off, here is our test …
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