Masking has often been seen as a preserve of Lightroom’s older sibling, Photoshop. However, Lightroom also has a very powerful masking feature that also has an AutoMask capability. Here’s a tutorial on how to use it.
Photography Post Production Articles
Improving your photos in the darkroom and on the desktop.
Besides the obvious difference between regular Point and Shoot cameras and DSLRs (the ability of interchanging lenses and exposing light manually), there is something else that makes DSLR cameras more powerful and that thing is RAW files. When I was starting to learn about photography, one photographer told me that DSLR cameras allow their users […]
Colour in our images can be a tricky thing to get spot on. We can try to give ourselves a head-start when shooting by picking an appropriate white balance or shooting in RAW. Sometimes. however, no matter what we do, we get an unwanted cast in an element of the picture. There are various ways […]
Many photographers that run a more Apple centric system will clearly remember Apple’s digital asset management (DAM) software, Aperture. It was the first program that worked effectively as DAM and a RAW editor in one package. It was soon joined by Adobe Lightroom and together the two revolutionised the post-production workflows of many photographers. Sadly […]
Since moving to a subscription service Adobe’s updates to Lightroom and Photoshop have been coming thick and fast. Perhaps their frequency makes us a little blasé when it comes to actually looking at what the changes are. Recently, Adobe, with little fanfare, gave us Lightroom Classic CC 7.3. (And is currently at 7.3.1) Concealed behind […]
While Lightroom in itself is an incredibly powerful tool, there are some things that Photoshop does better. Today we are going to take a look at three Photoshop tools that trump their equivalents in Lightroom.
