Explained by Colin Smith with photoshopCAFE
This video does a great job of demonstrating how Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze work in Lightroom/RAW and how to use them together to enhance one image using masks.
Category: Adobe
Lightroom Tone Curve Explained – Julia Trotti
This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials I’ve found that explains and demonstrates the power and nuance that the often overlooked and/or underused by many Tone Curve panel in Lightroom offers when editing images.
Photoshop Cafe – Will this change Photoshop forever?
As Photoshop evolves with changes almost exponentially this year with a dizzying series of additional features to comprehend and master, this video from Photoshop Cafe does a very nice job of putting the latest change (with filters on this one) in a user friendly useful way that most will find very helpful.
As with most application software updates, they tend to build on and/or modify elements that heavy/moderate users are already familiar with here and this “filter” change is no different in that regard. I expect to make good use of these changes going forward.
Everything that’s new in the May 2023 release of Photoshop | Terry Lee White
To say what is new in the May 2023 release of Photoshop is mind-blowing would be a gross understatement. Terry Lee White does his usual fantastic job of presenting them here with stunning demonstrations. I am almost speechless and still getting my mind around all these changes and will be trying them out soon.
One thing is certain, love it or hate it, AI is here to stay and is improving and growing exponentially in new realms by the minute. As I say about many new technologies, when it comes to visual arts, there is always room for the new and old to co-exist and/or morph into an entirely unforseen and intriguing new element altogether.
All that said, I have been rocked by many technology changes over the decades, and I do my best when they occur to adapt and navigate though them to a place where they can work for, rather than against my interests. Needless to say, that journey can be fruitful in the end, but a rough one along the way. Now, here we go again with another round…!
Watch “How to CALIBRATE a MONITOR without a colorimeter” on YouTube
I found this to be a useful and low-cost, albeit more labor-intensive way to calibrate your monitor using a newer Samsung or iPhone and a manual monitor setting.
Watch “Develop Negative Film at Home with Photoshop! #Shorts” on YouTube
Watch “GOODBYE PHOTOSHOP? This HIDDEN BUTTON in Lightroom CHANGES EVERYTHING!” on YouTube – Glyn Dewis
I find myself staying in Lightroom longer before if/when I take it Photoshop all the time. There new features get more powerful all the time.
Should Always Auto Bracket a Landscape for Exposure Blending – CreativeRAW
https://creativeraw.com/why-auto-bracket-landscape-exposure-blending/
I have been bracketing in RAW when I shoot for a.while now.. I takes up a lot of memory once downloaded so I have to manage my files on import more carefully and delete files more often to keep from using up my overall storage capacity too quickly. That was happening and I was lazily buying more storage as a solution, rather than carefully managing what I had and developing a streamlined workflow for deleting files I would never use sooner rather than later. It takes overcoming a “hoarder” mentality in a certain way.
The Capturing of Flying Seagull Mayhem & Edit Success in Lightroom
Four years ago, while on a walk around the lake with my camera one afternoon, I began to hear the sound of seagulls making a tremendous racket and then saw quite a number of them in the sky, darting around in all directions above the shore. They were very active and making quite a squall. As I got closer, I noticed a young couple feeding them near the shoreline. I saw this as an opportunity to get some Seagull in action shots so moved closer. It was absolute pandemonium at this point and almost impossible to plan a shot. The couple had left some bread on the shore and I began trying to toss some of it up in the air to draw the Seagulls closer with bread in one hand while holding my camera with the other, then quickly juggling it all to try “grab” a shot. This whole planned process was not working so I just set my camera to a shutter speed that would freeze the fastest movement and action, while not opening the aperture so much that I would lose my depth of field. Fortunately, it was a bright sunny day so the ISO stayed low and I basically joined the mayhem and shot at will. When I downloaded the pictures that day, what I saw was pretty sad, and felt like a total loss. I didn’t go back to look at them, until recently. The attached picture looked hopeless from an exposure standpoint and the image of the seagull was small and in the corner of the frame. Fortunately, I was shooting with a full-frame Nikon D750 DSLR so there was a lot of room to crop and still hold the image together. In the end, I pulled the JPG image of the one attaches scene, and made adjustments to it only in Lightroom. To get this image at 1/4000 of a second (didn’t realize I set it that high) and f10 with an ISO of 100 pleased me! Of course, this has compelled me to go back and look at the rest of the Seagull shots from that day to see what else I might find to work with!
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Arch
This is a picture I took of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Arch in Dallas Texas one Sunday morning in October 2018. Due to a period of heavy rain, the Trinity River was at flood stage, cresting at over 40 feet. I went there with the objective of getting shots of the high water level and flood waters in the levee. In the end, the nice cloudy background in the shots provided some unexpected aesthetic subject matter as an added bonus.