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All in Post Processing
I recently wrote a post about how I felt people were getting to hung up on noise (or grain) in their images.
Are you one of those portrait photographers who want to get in and get out real quick when it comes to editing? Not everyone wants to spend hours cleaning up blemishes in an image.
It has never been easier to make eyes pop in portraits using Luminar 4. You can use it as standalone software, or as a plugin or Smart Object filter in Photoshop.
Skylum just released its 4.2 update to Luminar, claiming even more powerful AI tools. Offering refinements to various AI features — including AI Sky Replacement — the company claims to have fixed many of the bugs that caused unexpected errors and crashes. In addition to AI Sky Replacement, there are improvements to portrait editing as well as a new eraser tool.
Throughout the month of March, every Sunday I am going to post a quick video on a quick fix, edit or adjustment in Adobe Photoshop
I really like to keep my portraits simple, no over-processing or spending hours on the PC. I try to capture everything in-camera as much as I can. Shooting RAW, I find most images out of the camera are a little flat and they need some processing. But again my aim is always to try and keep it simple. So when I was recently asked to review a copy of DxO PhotoLab 3, I was keen to put it through its paces.
DxO PhotoLab is non-destructive and makes a new DOP file with all corrections and filters, so it is really no different in that regard to Lightroom. So what does it offer? Well to start with — price. If you are just after the basics of PhotoLab, it’s only $129 (You can get Nik and PhotoLab 2 for $149.00). There’s also no Subscription.
These days taking an image with a DSLR camera is usually only half the process — the rest of the magic happens in post-processing…
So Luminar 4 has been out for a little while now, and there are some great features to really make your images pop!
This week, I am taking a look at some quick and easy portraits by batch-processing some images from a recent studio session.
During my first look at Luminar 4, I must confess to being a little bit lost at first. But it didn’t take too long to find my way around…
It might sound like a weird question, but what does your editing workflow look like? Are you all over the place and jump from image to image or do you have a system?
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.
Why shoot Raw? It is a great question and many people still ask that, but another question that goes with it, HOW should I process my Raw Images?
