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.
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Ever feel you are not quite nailing it with your landscape photos? Something amiss but you cannot quite work out what it is? The fact is whilst landscapes are easy to shoot, they can be a very difficult genre to master. There can be multiple reasons why your landscapes are not quite working. Some can […]
If you joined photography during the digital era, chances are that you will know the effect known as grain by a different name – noise. Whilst we might embrace noise in some images, for many others, it can ruin the entire look. Noise, however, is a relatively simple thing to avoid whilst taking a photo or […]
Contrast, sometimes there’s too much, sometimes there’s too little. Contrast in a landscape can make or break the image. But getting the perfect contrast for a landscape shot can sometimes be difficult. Do we aim to have the natural contrast of the scene in front of us or do we opt to modify that contrast […]
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 […]