Monthly Archives: July 2011
Yesterday, we took a lengthy look at the in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. With a better understanding of how the two tools differ, you might be left thinking when each tool is appropriate – or if you should even use the saturation slider at all. Well here’s a couple tips to…
Looking down Lightroom’s Develop module toolbar, there are a lot of things you can alter in an image. Some of these, like the various brightening tools, seemingly cover the same problem areas but do so in different ways. A while ago, I wrote up a . Today, let’s look at…
ISO Sensitivity and Noise are an interesting topic. Depending on how you look at it, the explanations can be quite different. The standard photographer explanation is that a higher ISO sensitivity amplifies the light in an image while simultaneously amplifying noise. A more technical response, found on the photography Stack…
I was going through the , converting them to CS5.5 and to backwards compatible IDML files, and I noticed something interesting. The same files, opened / converted / saved in CS5.5 are quite a bit smaller than those saved originally in CS5. The IDML files are also smaller – a…
Now that we have our working image with and , the last step in is to remove that pesky tattoo on Olinda’s left leg. The tattoo doesn’t bother me, but apparently the fashion designer who had us do this particular shoot doesn’t like it. Figures that it had to be…
Earlier in the week, I noticed to my chagrin that INDD files created in Adobe InDesign CS5.5 are with Adobe InDesign CS5. Doh. After doing some reading, it turns out this isn’t too out of the ordinary. It seems that regular Adobe users are used to this kind of obsolescence….
Let’s continue . Now that we’ve made some global adjustments and gotten the exposure/color more or less the way we want it, we can move on to the major reason why people generally touch up photos – hiding blemishes and softening skin. To the left, we have the image as…
This morning, I read an article over at Digital Photography School about thinning out your image collection by deleting all but the best photos. The author suggested a workflow for continuously winnowing down your shots until you’re left with a select few keepers. The first step that he suggested was…
So here’s our original, unedited image. In the first part of this , we’re going to address some global issues – exposure, levels, color, etc. Once we have the overall feel of the picture down, we can work on more localized touch ups. Looking at this picture, there are a…
Looking through my site’s stats I realized that – while I’ve written a lot about Adobe Lightroom and I’ve written increasingly about Adobe InDesign – I’ve posted almost nothing about Adobe Photoshop. While I do a lot more editing for events and such in Lightroom, there is still a place…