Using black & white for better colour photos
If you are crazy for colour photography it can be crazy to leave the world of mono out in the cold.
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Category: Processing Techniques
Please find Technical articles for learning Adobe's image editing software such as Lightroom and Photoshop and applying the skills to landscape photographs. Post-processing skills are very different from actual photography, but learning image editing skills will inspire new camera skills out in the field. These post-processing tutorials include step by step procedures as well as images to illustrate some of the more technical processes.
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is a powerful image editing software with a huge number of editing tools. It allows for multi-layer editing which gives you a lot of control over selected area of an image. Photoshop is a pixel editor, so it is possible to adjust the levels and colours of individual pixels if you wish, or you can make whole image adjustments.
Lightroom RAW editor
Adobe Lightroom is a RAW converter and whole picture editor. It has some useful tools to allow you to adjust small parts of an image and plenty of plugins and presets to help you develop a speedy image editing workflow. Lightroom also organises yur files and connects to online photo sites, such as SmugMug and flickr.
Goðafoss waterfall – 175 second exposure
I love visiting Goðafoss Waterfall in the late Summer. The sunset colours work so well with this dynamic, North Iceland waterfall. I was facing West around 20.30 on this September evening on a tour around Iceland.
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Northern lights HDR photography
Northern lights are a real treat for the travel photographer, but what’s the point if you can’t see the landscape your are visiting? This post looks at the HDR technique and how it can be used at night for Northern lights.
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Jokulsarlon Night panorama – Northern Lights
Northern lights can add an extra dimension to night photography because they add strong colours and depth to the sky.
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21 Carrots – ice beach + lightroom
One of the things I love to do with recent Lightroom versions is to play with low contrast adjustments and introducing de-haze.
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Red Blaze Aurora – Iceland Night Exposure
Although the Northern lights require a long exposure, the object is often to reduce exposure time as much as possible to achieve a usable exposure and with minimal star trails.
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Lightroom workflow – review of “Through the woods” preset plugin
“Through the woods” is a workflow for Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom by SleekLens. It has been designed for landscape photography and with modern digital solutions.
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Ice beach method
The aim of this image editing technique is to enhance colours, to give them that contrast colour while maintaining a natural contrast.
Read MoreBlending modes for drama and colour
his section discusses a photoshop technique which is similar to Luminosity masking and just adds the extra flavour of various blending modes instead of traditionally adjusting curves. This can be a bit like inventing recipes where some ingredients go beautifully well together and some are disastrous combinations. We will start with an image which has […]
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Aurora photography – Northern Lights Panoramas
Combining the panorama technique with the Northern Lights can only ever be interesting. Let’s explore which conditions suit a Northern lights panorama then we will consider some techniques to help to get the best results.
Read MoreAdvanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may be work-arounds for other versions of photoshop or other image editors, but the work horse in this tutorial is the powerful ‘Black and White Tool’ in CS3 which has a great selection of […]
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