If you own a Fuji X-Series camera and you aren't regularly upgrading the firmware you may be missing out on a number of features that your camera has to offer. Firmware is the software that is operating your camera, and it is responsible for a surprising percentage of your camera's...
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Using the High Pass Filter for Image Sharpening in Adobe Photoshop
There are a lot of different ways to sharpen images in Adobe Photoshop. In this article I’m going to share one of my favorite methods which uses the High Pass filter. Photoshop offers a number of filters and tools dedicated directly to sharpening images, so it might seem strange to...
Fujifilm X-T3 First Impressions
Until the release of the Fujifilm X-T3 I would have told you that my Fuji camera lineup was complete for a while. The release of the X-T2 two years ago wasn't enough to make me part with my X-Pro2 and I've since picked up the X-H1 as well. But when...
7 Things All Photographers Need to Know About Copyright
Did you know that you are a copyright owner? If you've taken a photograph, then under US copyright law you own the copyright to that image. Copyright law is something that affects every photographer, not just those who are in business making money from their images. With the ease of...
Photoshop’s Best Content-Aware Tools, Explained
In an ideal world we would all make our photos exactly the way we want them in camera. But in reality, we can't always avoid distractions and unwanted objects in our frame. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop has some powerful tools for helping to remove those unavoidable distractions. Today we're going to...
A Simple Way to Improve Your Black and White Prints on Any Printer
The secret to a good black-and-white print is controlling the dynamic range. The dynamic range is the range of tones, from the blackest black to the whitest white in an image. In a black and white photograph, you want to make full use of the entire dynamic range. The problem...
How and Why to Use the Lightroom Metadata Panel
When searching through my photo library for a class I was teaching recently, I found myself turning to Adobe Lightroom’s metadata filter regularly to help me find the examples I needed. But what I discovered was a lot more useful to my own photography than just sample images for a...