How to use Photoshop to Selectively Edit Colors in Your Photos
There are several tools in Adobe Photoshop like the Hue / Saturation and Color Balance Adjustment Layers that allow you to do selective color adjustment. The problem is that these adjustments layers will affect the color across the entire image. …
Night Sky Photography – How to Increase the Size of the Stars
Normally in night sky or astrophotography the goal is to get pinpoint, small stars. The smaller the stars, the more they are in focus. However, there are times you want bigger stars in order to highlight them. Making a constellation…
False Color Infrared Photography Processing Tips
Infrared photography makes use of wavelengths of light that fall outside the visible spectrum and makes for some very creative photographs. Many people process their infrared photographs in black and white resulting in snowy white trees and foliage. But for…
How to Post Process your Star Trail Photographs in Lightroom
After hours outside photographing your star trails with your Olympus OM-D or other camera, your final image output by the camera probably looks something like this. This is due to light pollution and how dark of a location you were…
The New Sky Replacement Filter in Luminar 4 – WOW!
Skylum Software has released a new version of their popular Luminar photo editing and image library software and the top feature is their new AI Sky Replacement Filter. The Sky Replacement filter produces excellent results and is easy to use. The…
5 Reasons to Edit Your Photographs in Luminar
Luminar is a photo editing software and digital asset manager (new with Luminar 3) developed by Skylum Software. Luminar is available for Windows and MacOS and can be run as a stand alone application or used as a plug-in for…
My Favorite Luminar Photo Processing Filters
Luminar 3 comes with over 60 filters to process your photographs. These filters are grouped into Essential, Issue Fixers, Creative, Professional, and Utility filters. So how do you know which ones to use? My favorite Photo Editing Filters in Luminar…
Photography – Creative Post Processing Idea for Winter Berries
Bright red berries may be the most photographed subject for nature photographers in the cold winter months. Berries might be the one colorful subject in an otherwise dull, gray landscape. So how do you make your berries stand out from…
How to Save a Layer Mask as a Separate File in Photoshop for use in the Future
Have you ever wanted to process a photo several times using different techniques that required creating a time consuming layer mask. You ended up not processing the photo again due to the time it takes to create the mask. Or…
What To Do When Your Nature Photos Aren’t Quite Sharp?
I’ve always like the composition of this photo. The swans taking off, the Mallard ducks in the background, the fall colors all lead to a pleasing photo. I’ve kept this unprocessed photo around for 7 years because I didn’t know…