On 15 February 2016, Adobe made an announcement that there was a potential problem with it's latest Lightroom Creative Cloud update that affected a small number of Mac users. Whatever the problem is, Adobe claim that it will only affect a few Mac users, but to be on the safe side they withdrew the update [...]
Adobe released a Lightroom CC update at the end of last week (29 January 2016). As usual, the update adds support for new camera models and lenses as well as addressing bugs that have been found since its last update. Unfortunately, Adobe has not included support for the Sony RX100 iV in this update, much [...]
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What Is Metadata? Metadata is the name given to small pieces of information that are attached to files. This metadata allows users to quickly know basic information about the file. This basic information can then be used to quickly find and sort files. Examples of metadata in files would be, author, date created, date modified, [...]
One of the best ways to increase the tonal range of your digital photographs is to set the white and black points in Adobe Lightroom. This is an accurate way to ensure you have extracted all the dynamic range from your image without causing clipping. This is a technique that has been used for many [...]
The Adobe Lightroom update that many of us have been waiting on is available in both Windows and Mac versions. In a previous article, I mentioned how Adobe had apologised to their customers following the October 2015 update of Lightroom. The main source of complaint was the revised, or "dumbed down", version of the Import [...]
Adobe apologises to all of its users of Lightroom following a wave of complaints after their update to version 6.2 in October. The update has resulted in millions of users (including me) experiencing a severe slow down of the Import function. Not only was the new Import function causing a slow down of the user's computer [...]
We are often asked by people starting out with photo editing about the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing. Let me try to explain the difference in some detail. I'll describe destructive editing first then move onto non-destructive editing. Destructive Editing The term destructive editing does not mean that you actually destroy your image; in [...]
The dramatic sky plays a substantial part in the formation of an image. It forms the background and often the main subject of a huge percentage of our images, in particular landscape. Exposure can often be tricky and calculating for either the sky or the foreground on their own will result in one or the [...]
In a previous post, I introduced you to the idea of focus stacking and how it can be used with macro photography. Now I'd like to explain the method for achieving focus stacking in Photoshop. As always, there will be several different ways to carry out focus stacking in Photoshop but the method described here [...]
