A couple of weeks ago I posted a video on YouTube in which I mentioned focus stacking. I’ve had a few questions about it and a friend mentioned that he intended to use a combination of DxO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo instead of my favoured workflow (for layer based editing) of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop….
Color Efex and Viveza I’ve been looking closely at Color Efex and Viveza, two plugins from the Nik Collection recently. I’ve dabbled with Color Efex in the past, but in terms of a coherent Color Workflow with Nik Collection plugins, well I didn’t really have one. Until now. Video I have a playlist on YouTube…
We’re approaching that time of year when a major release is due, we’re on Nik Collection 6.9 today, late Spring will probably see 7.0. So, I thought I’d do a level-setting post because, over the years, the Nik Collection has evolved from a collection of filters to a much more comprehensive set of grading and…
Creating a signature in photoshop suitable for use across many images is quite straightforward in Photoshop, this is how it’s done. Video New Photoshop Document Choose a layout that is large and approximates to the shape of your signature. So if you are called Archibald Merryweather Smyth , then choose a template such as the…
DxO PhotoLab vs. Adobe Lightroom vs. Adobe Photoshop DxO vs Adobe Repair and Clone Tools compared in Photolab, Lightroom and Photoshop. This was easy last year, basically we were comparing like with like. PhotoLab came last and Photoshop won hands down. In 2024, I’m finding everyone has raised their game considerably. PhotoLab from Poor to…
As I mentioned in the last post, Photographing Cabo de Gata, I’ve just returned from a week long walking expedition, photographing the Picos de Europa. Suffice to say it was an absolute blast, the weather cooperating to provide all of the conditions I’d hoped for and none of the ones I’d feared! The Picos de Europa (“Peaks…
Switching genres in Photography is not quite as simple as you might hope. In this post, I’m going to talk about the importance of being open to learning, retaining objectivity about your own skill levels as a photographer and the importance of being open to learning entirely new skills. Switching genres is a great way…
Happy New Year everyone! I love New Year because it’s a time for new beginnings, an opportunity to reset for the New Year and assess what’s worked (photography training) and perhaps more importantly, what hasn’t worked so well in the previous twelve months! YouTube In December I relaunched my YouTube channel successfully, producing twelve videos…
This post takes us through the steps required to get perfectly sharp landscape photographs from front to back and side to side. I’ve been using various techniques, including focus stacking in Photoshop, increasingly in my landscape photography. Always with the same goal. To create an image that is sharp where I need it to be…