In this post, I’m going to show how to go about setting up a photography website with WordPress including all of the steps you need to take for a successful launch. Including domain selection and registration, WordPress hosting selection, installing WordPress, choosing Core Plugins, WordPress Theme selection, SEO and Launching. Preparing to Set Up a…
Hot off the press, in fact, only announced today, there’s a new DxO RAW processing app. Aimed at Photoshop and Lightroom Classic users, this takes the RAW processing and de-noising capabilities that DxO have become rightly well known for and packaged them in a bundle that will integrate seamlessly into an Adobe Photoshop workflow. Special…
The HSL Tool in PhotoLab 4 is an improvement on the tool in version three and provides a very intuitive way of managing precise colour ranges across an entire image. Video This video shows how I used the tool to accentuate the autumn colours in an unprocessed RAW file. Disclaimer: This post contains links to…
Converting images to monochrome is never as straightforward as it might appear. In this post we look at methods of achieving the monochrome look and answer the question “Is Silver Efex Pro the best Black and White Photography Plugin ever?” First the disclaimer. I am affiliated with a few carefully selected companies whose products I…
Video I shot a video last week with Shropshire Artist Grace Currie, called Grace Currie’s Town Centre Takeover. Grace Currie’s Town Centre Takeover A contribution to the Great Big Art Exhibition, where artists all over the UK are filling their windows with artworks. Grace had made an advent window before Christmas and wanted to take…
A rather special architectural Video project. Helter Skelter Studios were commissioned by RGB Group to produce a video to help market a property development in Shrewsbury. The Old Glassworks is a converted church opposite the river and the conversion is spectacular, blending the old and the new to fantastic effect. This was a real opportunity…
Library Management in DxO Photolab 4 Update: DxO Photolab 5 is the more recent version of the program – DxO Photolab 5 Review In this post, I’ll be looking at Library Management in DxO Photolab 4 in detail. I’ll explain how it works in comparison with Adobe Lightroom and talk about why you might want…
Light on the Landscape Light on the Landscape by William Neill is a book I’ve been meaning to get to for a while now. It kept cropping up in conversation with other photographers and slowly crept into my consciousness until this Christmas when miraculously it appeared underneath the Christmas Tree. I must have mentioned it…
I’ve been looking forward to writing a Luminar AI review, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I could lay my hands on a copy of the software. Now I’ve had a chance to see what it can do, and I have to say, I’m impressed. Disclaimer: We are affiliated with Skylum Software, so if you…