Flood 2 Plug-in for Photoshop – an Easy but Powerful Way to Add Water Reflections to your Images
You can create realistic water reflections in your photographs using Adobe Photoshop. But this can take quite a few steps and involves creating and using a displacement map. If you’re interested in creating water reflections in photoshop, here’s a blog…
Testing Sky Replacements on a Variety of Photographs – Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 vs Luminar
Luminar 4 by Skylum Software was the first of the major photo editing programs to automate sky replacements. They did an excellent job with this feature, easily allowing skies to be replaced in landscape images. With the release of Photoshop…
How to Create a Water Reflection in Adobe Photoshop
Water reflections are a popular subject for photographers. But sometimes you just can’t get the best reflection in camera. Adobe Photoshop can create a realistic water reflection image and it’s not that difficult to do. This technique can be used…
How to Create a Displacement Map in Photoshop for Ripples in Water Reflections
A displacement map can be created in Adobe Photoshop to create the effect of ripples in your water reflections. We want the ripples in the reflection to be more pronounced at the bottom of the screen than the ones farther…
Workflow to go from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back and Not Lose Your Layers
Adobe Lightroom Classic is capable of storing the layers you create in Photoshop, you just need to be careful how you save and launch your images. First, I will discuss the different options to edit your files when round tripping…
Why Buy an Olympus OM-D E-M10 as a Backup or Second Camera?
The Olympus OM-D E-M10 is a really good mirrorless camera, but it is on the low end of the OM-D Camera line. So why would I buy an OM-D E-M10 as a second camera? Size and Price. The size of…
How to Incorporate Fall Color in Your Bird Photography
Fall is a great time to get out for bird photography. Spring is known for the big bird migration with a large variety of birds migrating north. But the fall also has a migration as the birds fly back south.…
A Really Quick Way to Create a Mirror Image in Photoshop
I’ve previously published a blog on how to create a mirror image and another blog with before and after examples of mirror images. There are always multiple ways to do things in photoshop and I’ve recently discovered a really quick…
Comparing the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III and E-M1X for Bird Photography
With the OM-D E-M1X and E-M1 Mark III, Olympus has introduced two cameras that when paired with Olympus 300mm f/4 Pro lens are quite capable for bird photography. Both cameras have many of the same features and specs: 20.4 megapixel…
Using Topaz DeNoise AI for Editing your Bird Photographs
Before purchasing Topaz DeNoise AI, I used multiple Photoshop layers and masks to selectively remove noise from the background and sharpen the birds in my photographs. This workflow produced great results but also was very time consuming. Using Topaz DeNoise…
