Post Processing Category Archive - Page 15

Adobe Creative Cloud Fail

By now you have probably heard about Adobe's decision to stop development of Adobe Creative Suite (which includes such software as Photoshop and Illustrator) and move to a completely different subscription-only model. In short, Adobe does not want to sell packaged versions of its software anymore and wants you to...

Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements

Digital photography has become extremely popular thanks to its accessibility and speed, but to get the best out of those photographs some time needs to be spent editing and tweaking them. Thankfully, plenty of applications are available for you to complete such tasks with, starting with moderate and user-friendly functionality...

Post-Processing Portraits in Lightroom

Many of our previous Mastering Lightroom series articles focused on specific Lightroom 4 features and tools, as well as ways of using them in your everyday workflow. I've explained how to use the Basic Panel and talked about the Tone Curve in great detail. We've also learned how to use...

How to Use External Editors in Lightroom

In every Mastering Lightroom series article, I mention certain strengths of this, in my opinion, superb piece of software. Only every now and then do I find something small to complain about, as I have in my "How to Manage Presets" article. I strongly believe Lightroom offers more or less...

How to Add Film Grain in Lightroom

With mainstream days of film long gone, one would expect all the disadvantages it had on offer to be rid of for all times, as well. Digital is all about clean, high quality images now. Contrary to such an assumption, however, film has not left our everyday lives without a...

How to Use Virtual Copies in Lightroom

As all previous versions of Adobe's popular photography management and post-processing software, Lightroom 4 offers catalog system. Such a choice has both positives and negatives. One of the positives is non-destructive editing, which basically means the original image file remains intact no matter what you do to it within Lightroom...

How to Enhance Landscape Photos in Lightroom

So, you've taken a photograph of a beautiful sunset or a peaceful, fog-covered valley. But something is missing in the picture - it just doesn't look as good straight out of camera as the scene you were seeing at the time. By using simple Lightroom tools, such as Clarity, Graduated...

How to Geotag Photographs in Lightroom

Lightroom has quite a few great features on offer for photographers. With the introduction of Lightroom 4, Adobe added two more modules to the already existing five - Map and Book. In this short and simple Mastering Lightroom series tutorial I will show you how to geotag your photographs in...

Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High Resolution Images

It seems that the continuous increase of megapixels in our digital cameras is inevitable. Year after year, camera sensors are getting better, image resolution is increasing and file sizes are getting bigger. If just several years ago 10 megapixels was plenty for a DSLR, that number has grown way higher...

How to Use the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a great tool for post-processing your work, especially if you tend to shoot RAW most of the time. It's quick, easy to manage and offers an extremely wide range of color adjustment, as well as other kinds of processing. But what if you need to retouch...