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Lightroom “Grunge/HDR” look Preset

Sometimes you can create a really cool look in Lightroom with some radical adjustments that you normally would not do. With a few quick changes of some of the sliders in the “Basic” menu I turned this:

Do you have front or back focus issues?

Northlight Images has a great article on how to use your LCD screen to check and fine tune your auto focus on your camera.  Canon’s two most recent pro-level cameras the 1D and 1Ds Mark III cameras feature a AF microadjustment setting.  You can use this microadjustment to fine tune exactly where your camera focuses [...]

Does your Workflow need a tuneup?

Professionalsnapshots.Com’s website is running a multi part series on workflow. Day One was “Overview” with a quick rundown from image capture to print. Day Two naming and organizing your images. Day Three is a great look at DNG versus the RAW format. Day four is editing. If you take a lot of images and/or don’t [...]

Photoshop for free with Photoshop Express

Adobe has released a beta version of their new web based version of Photoshop! This is a slimmed down version of Photoshop but still very powerful and useful. You have to sign up for your free account that includes 2 GB of online storage. The interface for uploading your files is quite simple to navigate [...]

Improve your skills with online tutorials

Photoshop is a great tool and like all tools there is more than one way to get to the same effect or correction. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy reading online tutorials and tips and tricks. By seeing what works for other people you can find better and/or faster ways of doing [...]

3 Things every DSLR owner needs (Part 3)

I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased a new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each Part Three – A fast lens I am a big proponent of expanding your possibilities and trying [...]

3 Things every DSLR owner needs (Part 2)

I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased an new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each Part Two – A bulb type blower One if the downsides of DSLR cameras is dust. It [...]

3 Things every DSLR owner needs (Part 1)

I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased an new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each Part One – A tripod The more support/stability you can give your camera while acquiring the image [...]

Photography on the cheap – DIYPhotography.net

I thought I had seen it all in the area of DIY (Do it yourself) for photography until I saw DIYPhotography.net.  This site has some really interesting ides for photographic items such as creating a beauty dish from a turkey pan to stabilizing your camera while shooting with a washer, bolt, and some string.  The [...]

Free gallery add-ons for Lightroom

Tired of the same old gallery templates provided in Lightroom? There are a number of places on the web that have free downloads to change things up a bit. “Lightroom Galleries” not only has some neat gallery add-ons that you can download for free but tutorials, news, and a user forum as well. The latest [...]

Free eBook on Lightroom

The Image Space a website by Joe Barret has released a “Lightroom Tips eBook” as a free download. With 30+ tips that are also available on “The Image Space” Site.  The book format makes it easy to access and all in one place.  This site is a wealth of information and great images. Here is [...]

Kelby turns on the light for Lightroom

Scott Kelby who is in my opinion a guru of everything about digital photography has many books out and recently published “The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book for Digital Photographers”. Scott has authored a number of book that deal specifically with Adobe Photoshop and now Lightroom. The style that Scott writes in is very informal and [...]