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Category Archives: How-to
Michael Frye talks about Lightroom 4 tone controls
Head on over to Michael Frye’s site and check out his video on Lightroom 4 : the new tone controls. If you are not reading Michael’s blog on a regular basis you are missing out on some great landscape photography imagery and tips, so add him to your RSS feed and stay tuned.
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Inspirational, Lightroom 4, Photo Processing
This explains a few things – Photoshop rotation chaos
Head on over to bjango.com and check out this write up on Photoshop image rotation using the transform tools. I have seen issues like this in the past but had not found and easy fix, Mark Edwards has. The article discusses how rotation goes wrong and methods to keeping things clean.
Free Craft & Vision ebook available
Head on over to Craft & Vision and check out the free ebook Craft & Vision 11 ways to improve your photography It includes articles from several notables including Michael Frye, who I have written about here before. His section includes one of my favorite spots to take pictures of Half Dome and the Learning to Direct the [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Inspirational
Photoshop Curves Explained by PhotoshopCAFE
The folks over at PhotoshopCAFE have made one of the best explanations of Curves I have seen. I though I knew everything about curves and I still learned a thing or two. It’s worth a look. Lightroom and Elements also have Curves adjustments and the principles talked about in the video also apply.
Posted in Curves, How-to, Lightroom 3, Photo Processing, Photoshop
A Hack for when Lightroom can’t find Photoshop
I made the foolish mistake of uninstalling Photoshop 5 after installing Photoshop 5.1. After the uninstall, Lightroom 3.5 could no longer find Photoshop. “Edit in Adobe Photoshop” was grayed out as well as “Merge to Panorama…” and “Merge to HDR Pro…” when multiple photos were selected was also grayed out. Meanwhile there is no setting [...]
Posted in How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs, Photoshop
How to – Copy Layer Fx in Photoshop
To copy layer fx in Photoshop. Go to the Layers panel Alt + click “Effects” or a sub effect like “Drop Shadow” and drag the effects to the new layer, now both layers have the same effects
How-To: Easy X-rite ColorChecker Passport Profile Generation in Lightroom 3
My earlier post contained a link to a video from X-rite that goes into detail about how to use the X-rite ColorChecker Passport in Lightroom and ACR (Adobe Camera Raw). This is just the quick steps to generate a profile in Lightroom 3 In Lightroom, select a picture you took with your camera of the [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs
A Nice Article on Lens Testing
I follow a blog called Canon Rumors and this week they posted an article from Roger Cicala over at LensRentals.com about lens testing for people who take pictures called How To Test a Lens. Roger brings an interesting perspective to this conversation because LensRentals.com have so many lenses and test them so frequently. Something most of [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to
X-rite ColorChecker Passport with Lightroom and Camera Raw
I heard about the X-rite ColorChecker Passport on Michael Frye’s website. If you are calibrating your monitor, this is a great way to calibrate your camera. Ok, technically you are not calibrating your camera, you are calibrating your RAW images. If you are not calibrating your monitor, nothing else you do with color calibration will matter, you should stop reading [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to, Lightroom 3, PCs, Photoshop
Canon EOS Bulb mode timer is on the LCD
When using Bulb mode, the LCD display shows the exposure time in the upper right corner, so there is no need to use a watch. You will however need a flashlight at night because the LCD light will not stay on during a long exposure. This is probably in the documentation and from doing a little research, it looks [...]
Posted in Camera Tips, How-to