Many of us know and understand the benefits of shooting raw files. Chief amongst them are the ability to set white balance in post production and the possibility of extracting more exposure data from an image. Typically this might be pulling back blown highlights or expanding dynamic range. Whilst there are numerous different post production […]
Photography Post Production Articles
Improving your photos in the darkroom and on the desktop.
There is no denying that photography can be an expensive hobby. Along with the cameras, lenses, flashguns and tripods we also need computers, drives for storage and of course software. You can save money on the hardware items by buying used, but what about the software? Lightroom, Photoshop, Capture One and many more are all […]
How often do you use Lightroom’s local adjustment tools? These three powerful tools rock the smallest adjustment to big details across areas of your image. The main sliders in Lightroom’s Develop module apply changes to the total image. When working with local adjustment tools, you’re making changes to targeted areas within the image. What are […]
Do you have a large unruly collection of images scattered over multiple hard drives? Are you locked down at home with little to do? If so, this is the article for you. Adobe Lightroom is probably the most advanced image cataloging software on the market. Its power, however can often the fact that there are […]
Saturation in images can be a very tricky thing to get right. If you shoot raw, then your image files will not have any extra Saturation added to them. If you shoot jpeg, then depending on your settings your image could be under saturated or unnaturally over saturated. In order to get the very best […]
For some photographers, Lightroom represents the perfect specimen of an editing application. Not only does it allow you to organize your files, Lightroom possesses virtually everything you need to do serious photo editing. Unless you need to work with layers — but even then, Lightroom integrates seamlessly with Photoshop. While Lightroom is nowhere near as […]
