by Andrew S. Gibson Photoshop CC, Silver Efex Pro 2, Aurora HDR, ON1 Photo 10 – the list of software available to process landscape photos seems to get longer every year. With so many companies competing for your attention it can be hard to know which software you should use to process your images. Then there’s the fear of missing …
Revisiting the Ligthtroom Rapid Editing System
A few days ago, I reviewed here Viktor Elizarov’s Rapid Editing System for Adobe Lightroom, having used it to process an image of mine. I have to admit I gave Viktor’s presets a hard time, using an image that was quite overexposed to start with. Having seen my review, Viktor kindly offered to reprocess my image and here are the …
The Lightroom Rapid Editing System
I have to admit that until recently I was not a big fan of presets and plugins for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Having used Lightroom for many years, I had developed a workflow that let me very quickly apply some general corrections and determine whether a photo merits further fine tuning. I will also only resort to Photoshop on rare …
The Making Of “On The Edge Of Darkness”
On The Edge Of Darkness is the title of this image that I took on the last evening of my recent family vacation. It was shot just before sunset in Rovinj, Croatia, one of the most charming towns of the Adriatic coast. Even though it rivals in beauty with the more popular Dubrovnik and Trogir, Rovinj (or Rovigno, if you prefer …
Adobe Introduces ‘Dehaze’ Feature in Lightroom and Photoshop CC
I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Adobe Lightroom CC, which includes a feature that might be very useful in a number of situation. What Adobe has done is adding a Dehaze slider to the Effects panel that is supposed to remove the atmospheric haze from pictures. I have just done a few tests with it and I am …
My Workflow For Natural-Looking HDR Photos
High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) has a bit of a bad rap, as it’s been widely abused to create surreal, overprocessed, highly saturated images that do not resemble reality at all. This bad rap is undeserved, though, as HDR can be used to effectively capture a larger dynamic range that would be possible without using it. I don’t refrain from …