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Alien Skin Exposure X4.5 New Features

April 3, 2019May 17, 2019 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

Alien Skin have launched version 4.5 of X4, with some new features. This update is free to all current owners of X4. Email group: http://eepurl.com/83EgD Gear used for recording: https://ift.tt/2LobKbf My Official Fuji-X Photographer Page: http://bit.ly/smccfujiX My Presets, Plugins and Texttures: http://bit.ly/LRBshop My Adobe Stock Portfolio: https://bit.ly/SmccStock My Social Media Instagram: https://ift.tt/2MQLNWy Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightroomblog Facebook: […]

On1 Photo Raw 2019

November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

One of my more popular videos is 5 Alternatives to Lightroom, so today it’s worth announcing that there’s a brand new version of On1 Photo Raw out: Version 2019. New layout, great new features and it feels great in use! Grab a 30 day free trial or just go to the product page (Affiliate links-no […]

Alien Skin Exposure X4 now available

September 18, 2018September 25, 2018 Sean McCormack2 Comments

Ever increasing in depth and likeability, Alien Skin have launched the X4 version of their raw processing and file management app Exposure. It’ll still work as a plugin for Lightroom and Photoshop though, and works well alongside those applications. Alien Skin are always working towards improving everything about the app, and to me it feels […]

Luminar Jupiter NEW Features

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

Luminar Jupiter (version 1.2.0) is out today. Featuring over 300 improvements, this video looks at the big new features and a little chat about the speed improvements and Windows catchup. Watch to the end to get a $10 off code! Get it from: https://ift.tt/2qrwaIW (affiliate link) That makes it $59 with my code for a […]

Maximum Workflow

December 24, 2016 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

This months article for Lightroom Magazine (formerly part of Photoshop User Magazine) is on Alien Skins Exposure X2. Exposure is one of my favourite Plugins. Like a lot of plug-ins it can also be used as a standalone app. I look at the standalone features in this, as well as some of the new additions. […]

Google has set Nik Free!

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

As a previous purchaser of Nik, it’s with a sad mix of regret and delight that I want to spread the word (that’s spreading fast already), but Google have made the Nik Collection a free product. That’s right Silver Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Analog Efex Pro and all the others are now free. Go […]

Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements on sale.

May 24, 2013May 24, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

For those looking for nifty non cloud packages, Amazon US have knocked over $50 of the Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 combo package for this weekend only. I’ll be doing tutorials with Photoshop Elements 11 shortly, because I had to do some work with it recently and was more than pleasantly surprised at how good […]

Video: Merge to HDR Pro and processing HDR in Lightroom

May 30, 2012May 13, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

Although I’ve done a text version of this, I think a video will make it more obvious, so here’s the full process of merging 3 files (although you can do as many as you like!) to HDR Pro and processing the result in Lightroom 4.1

Why CS6 is good for Photographers

April 23, 2012May 13, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

The world has been abuzz today with news of the Creative Suite announcement, and that of Creative Cloud. For the most part it’s Photoshop that interests photographers, but there is far more in the suite that should appeal to them. The new features of Photoshop have been visible in the public Beta, so let’s not […]

OnOne Software announce Perfect Photosuite 6

September 7, 2011May 13, 2013 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment

By now I suspect you know I’m a big fan of onOne Software. I’ve been doing a lot of composite work recently and use Phototools to finish all my shots. Of course Phototools requires Photoshop, so I’m delighted to see that onOne have announced Perfect Photo Suite 6.0 as a fully standalone product. Perfect Photo Suite […]