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Last week I talked about rating images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and in the past also talked about using keywords. Both features can be used together to help find images within your collection. Lightroom still has more though. Two other methods for sorting your images are use of color labels and of flags. With color …
I’ve mentioned in a previous tip using keyword tagging within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to help keep your photos organized. Another organization method in Lightroom is through the use of it’s rating feature. You can assign a rating from 1-5 stars for each image that you create. Later, you can filter your images using those ratings, …
I’ve received a couple of emails from Andrei Doubrovski regarding his Photoshop Video Books: Andrei Doubrovski, a professional photo restoration artist and technician, has released version 6.0 of video-book “As Simple As Photoshop”. This course offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the Photoshop environment. Are you looking for Photoshop …
Today’s tip is a simple one, yet effective one. A bride and groom can be one of the hardest subjects to expose well. The bride is usually dressed in a very white gown and the groom, a very black tuxedo. Together it is an exposure nightmare. One trick to helping with this is to place …
The old saying is April showers bring May flowers. Today I offer a couple tips to help you capture the beauty in those flowers. 1. Try to avoid full sun. Shooting in full, midday sunlight will produce high contrast photos with distracting shadows. If you have to shoot in these conditions, try to use a …
Today’s tip is another tip for Adobe Lightroom users. The third tip that I wrote dealt with organizing your images. Today’s tip is how Lightroom can help you with that. Using the Library Module in Lightroom, tagging images with keywords could not be any easier. With your thumbnails visible, select an image or a series …
Several weeks ago I received this press release from ExtraLabs Software: The ExtraLabs Software company, a developer of software for creating RSS feeds, announced the new release of the Image Assistant graphic editor that has some new features improving the usability of the product. These new improvements take into account users’ most urgent needs. Image …
This week’s tip is about controlling the brightness of your background when using your on camera flash. Controlling the brightness of your background relies on a little technical knowledge, the inverse square law. The brightness of the flash output is relative to the inverse square of the distance from the flash from the subject. Sounds …
David Kennedy has a tip on his blog about Spring cleaning for photographers: Spring cleaning applies to photographers too. Every year, it is good to look at your equipment and see if you need everything on your shelf. Are you really going to use that old film camera again? Are you going to re-read that …
I am just finishing up my review of Adobe Lightroom. So far I am very impressed with Adobe’s new offering with only a few issues. This week’s tip is for Lightroom users. I have talked in the past about how important proper white balance is in your photographs. If your camera has the ability to …