Post Processing Category Archive

DxO PureRAW 4 Review: An Improved Revolution?

DxO PureRAW is a handy software that first appeared in 2021, promising photographers a solution to improve the quality of Raw files by automatically correcting lens defects and getting rid of image noise. In this article, I’ll focus on the features that DxO added to PureRAW version 4 and how...

Lightroom’s HDR Display Features Explained

In October of 2023, Adobe announced that Lightroom would gain support for HDR editing and display. Perhaps confusingly, this is different from Lightroom's Merge to HDR feature that combines multiple images together - instead, it has to do with the brightness levels that a photo contains and can be displayed...

Photoshop’s Selection Tools for Photography, Explained

Understanding how to make selections quickly, easily, and accurately is a fundamental Photoshop skill. Over the last few releases of Photoshop, however, Adobe has shaken up the selection paradigm. Some of the newer tools are claiming that one-click selections are now possible. What are the best selection tools in Photoshop,...

How to Correct White Balance in Photoshop

White balance is one of the most basic and yet trickiest aspects of photography. Although the white balance you’ve set in-camera may look good most of the time, in other cases, you’ll need to correct it in post-processing. Today, I will show you several ways to correct your white balance in Photoshop.

How to Use the HSL/Color Panel in Adobe Lightroom

Today we're going to look at how and when to use the HSL and Color tools in Adobe Lightroom. The HSL/Color controls are some of the most powerful color editing tools that Lightroom offers. These tools are relatively straightforward once you know how they work, but they're easy to overlook....

DxO PureRaw Tested: A Noise Whisperer?

There are already a few articles on noise and noise reduction on Photography Life. Now, I'm coming back to the topic again to see how good the artificial intelligence-based DxO PureRaw is at removing noise. Will it prove to be a true noise whisperer, and how does it compare to...