Happy New Year everyone! I love the 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! Every year I go through my Notes and I’m amazed and…
The aim of this post is to demonstrate a repeatable workflow for DxO PhotoLab 6 that will enable any image to be processed effectively. With landscape photography, processing begins before you take the shot. And the image I’m using as an example here is a case in point. I didn’t just happen across these trees,…
Who is this article for? This article is for new photographers embarking on what will turn out to be an expensive but rewarding lifestyle. I hope that I can share some insight into the reasons to acquire photography kit and help prioritise those acquisitions. The technology of photography goes way beyond the act of taking…
I’ve been part of the beta testing team for DxO for a few years now so I’ve had a chance to see this product evolve close up. Its been a fascinating and rewarding experience. Released today, in this DxO PhotoLab 6 Review we compare capabilities in editing and catalog management with previous models of PhotoLab…
The best photo editing software for landscape photography is a subject that I think I am reasonably well placed to comment on, having suffered and benefited from multiple solutions over the course of my career. As ever, I only feature software I have good hands on experience of. The section entitled Best of the Rest…
DxO have come in for a fair amount of criticism for their annual upgrade business model. I’m taking a look at what’s new in Nik Collection 5 and trying to determine whether its worth the investment. What is Nik Collection 5? Nik Collection 5 is a suite of eight plugins that can be integrated into…
I was a beta tester on PhotoLab 5 so I’m delighted to finally get my hands on the finished article! For the full DxO Photolab 5 Review read on… but be aware that there is a new version, PhotoLab 6 released today, 5th October. Read my review of PhotoLab 6 here. Disclaimer I am affiliated…
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…
There is a new version of PhotoLab available, most of this content applies equally well to version 6. Read my review of PhotoLab 6 here. Today I’m going to discuss the Local Adjustments in PhotoLab 4, but first a disclaimer – some of the links at the end of this article give you a link…
In this post, I’m looking at Artificial Intelligence and trying to answer the question “Does AI improve Photo Processing?” Is it just another smart way of selling software or is it the revolution it aspires to be? Does AI Improve Photo Processing? Does AI improve photo processing? Is an AI processed image a photograph? Is…