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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Watermarking

March 25th, 2010

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One of the biggest disappointments in the Lightroom feature set to date has been the very poor watermarking feature. While Beta 1 included a few more things, it was still no replacement for LR2/Mogrify which …

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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Noise Reduction

March 24th, 2010

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With the new release of Lightroom 3 beta 2 there are a number of new and enhanced features available and I will be trying to dig into them and show you the things that I …

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Indoors Photo Rescue – How I did it

March 23rd, 2010

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I took this photo of my daughter last night and it needed a lot of rescuing. I wanted to share the method I used to fix this shot with you all because – let’s face it – even the best of us need a little rescuing from time to time!

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Lightroom 3 beta 2 Now Available

March 22nd, 2010

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Tonight Adobe has released the second public beta for the upcoming Lightroom 3.0. This is a significant improvement over Lightroom 2.0 with features such as tethered shooting for some Nikon and Canon DSLR …

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How to Remove Sensor Dust With Lightroom

March 22nd, 2010

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One of the annoyances most photographers encounter from time to time is sensor dust. This is dust that you get on the camera’s sensor and which shows up in your images as dark marks or flaws on your photos. Most often you’ll see this in the sky but…

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Photo Book Review – No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio Guide for Photographers and Designers

March 14th, 2010

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Author: Larry Volk and Danielle Currier
Publisher: Focal Press
Review by Conrad J. Obregon
Visual professionals usually introduce themselves to prospective clients and employers by presenting a portfolio. No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio Gui…

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Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush Essentials

March 13th, 2010

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Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush is a powerful tool intended for making local adjustments to your photos with any combinatio…

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How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop

March 9th, 2010

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By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training
There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers.
To start wi…

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Backing up your photos

February 27th, 2010

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As photographers, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to take the most beautiful photos ever.
How often do you back them up, though…? If you have to think for more than a fraction of a second to answer that question, the real answer is ‘not …

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Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part II — Batch Processing

February 22nd, 2010

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In the last post, we created a “brush” to use when signing or placing a copyright notice on our images. Using the brush, one image at a time, works well. But, when we have a big job, a lot of images we want to protect all at once, it’s not …

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