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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingThis 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. […]
Continue ReadingAs 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 […]
Continue ReadingFor 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 […]
Continue ReadingAlthough 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
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingI know there’s been a little furore over Perfect Layers, but in my own posts and video, I’ve never alluded to it being anything but an external editor. As for the price, I’ve also said it’s better to get the whole suite, which includes Perfect Resize (formerly Genuine Fractals) for enlarging images and creating […]
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