The Orton Effect Explained
There are countless techniques and tools to make your image stand out but few have become as popular as the Orton Effect.
The Orton Effect is both loved and hated but still applied to some degree by most landscape photographers. It's not hard to understand why it's become a popular technique when you see just how big of an impact it...
Use This Simple Trick to Delete Multiple Images in Lightroom
One benefit of digital photography is that you don't need to worry about capturing one too many images in the field. In fact, it's better to shoot an extra frame or two in order to ensure that you got a sharp and in-focus shot.
However, as your archives start to grow and the hard...
3 Ways to Remove Color Cast in Photoshop
Remove Color Cast in Photoshop Within Minutes
Even though modern cameras try to neutralize a fair portion of color cast and you've got the possibility to adjust the White Balance, color cast remains a common problem in the majority of the images we capture. It might not always be prominent but just a slight touch of color cast can be enough...
How to Optimize Images for Instagram
Instagram has become the go-to platform for photographers to market their work. It's not surprising as the image-sharing network has more than 600 million active users, making it the perfect platform to promote your art.
Despite being a mobile photography platform, the majority of photographers use it to share their best images, which are normally captured with a DSLR. However,...
An Introduction to Luminosity Masks
Luminosity Mask Tutorial
Do you feel like you’ve learned how to use your camera and have become curious about post processing techniques? Have you already learned the basics of Adobe Photoshop and are ready to explore some more advanced and powerful techniques? If so, Luminosity Masks is where you should begin.
Luminosity Masks have become one of the most popular techniques/tools...
8 Crucial Steps to Prepare Images for Printing
Seeing a finished image displayed online is always a nice feeling but actually holding a physical print gives a completely different type of satisfaction. It's not until the image is printed and hung on a wall that the entire process is finished. However, making a good print is usually not as straightforward as one would think and most...
How to Create a Vignette in Lightroom
Adding a vignette can be a powerful way to enhance both the mood and the composition of an image. By adjusting the light and selectively darkening certain areas of an image, you're able to guide the viewer's eye more easily through the image and towards the main subject.
There are several ways to create...
Processing Dark and Moody Images
The Power of Moody Images
Moody processing is a way to process an image when the light isn't good by the standards. Meaning that there are no colorful skies but instead a dramatic atmosphere with to fog, rain, snow or thunderstorms.
My idea of moody processing was born around 2013/2014...
Luminar 4 Review: A New Era of Photo Editing
Artificial Intelligence. One-click sky replacements. Smart adjustments. That's just some keywords to describe what you can expect from the new and completely rebuilt Luminar 4.
The market is saturated with photo-editors these days and it seems like everyone is trying to make a Lightroom alternative. That's not what Skylum is aiming to do with...
Photoshop Made Easy with Raya Pro
Are you feeling overwhelmed with Photoshop? Do you have a hard time remembering how to create and apply certain techniques?
Post-processing and Photoshop are becoming an important part of a photographer’s workflow but it involves spending a lot of time repeating the same adjustments over and over. Perhaps you apply the Orton Effect, use Luminosity Masks, or maybe you create...