How to Create a Cinematic Effect in Photoshop | Maryanne Wirkkanen

In this video, Jesús Ramirez shows us three ways to achieve a cinematic effect on your image in Photoshop. Ramirez goes in depth on using color curve layers and also shows us some shortcuts using color adjustment layers and color Read more …

Shooting Stitched Panoramas with Fuji X100 Cameras | Ian MacDonald

On my last trip from Vancouver to San Francisco the only camera I took was my Fuji X100s.  It was a great experience traveling without a backpack full of camera bodies and lenses.  The one thing that occasionally needed to Read more …

Simple Black & White Edit using Lightroom & Photoshop |
Dave Kai Piper

We take an image from Lightroom to Photoshop and back again to show a simple way to create a Black and White image and give it some tonal interest using layers Source: VIMEO

How to Use LAB Color in Photoshop to Add Punch to Your Images |
Jim Hamel

Have you ever wished you could stretch out the color palette of your picture? Or that you could separate colors that looked too flat or close together? Well, with Photoshop, you can – by converting your picture to something called Read more …

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Adobe’s Software Bloating, Performance Issues and Bugs |
Nasim Mansurov

I will be honest, I am not a fan of Adobe as a company. I never liked their business model: their practice of gobbling up competition (sometimes out of fear), their Creative Cloud extortion and their sleazy management that only Read more …

Fix it now or fix it later? | The Machine Planet

For every photographic problem that might be addressed at the time of shooting, there always seems to be someone’s glib response that you “can fix it in post.” It is indeed possible to do many things with Lightroom, Photoshop, or GIMP – Read more …

Rebecca Lily Pro Set III presets for Lightroom & Photoshop –
A taste of film in your digital work | MirrorLessons

Exactly one year ago, I reviewed the Rebecca Lily Pro Set II for Lightroom. I became interested in these presets because some of them were specifically designed for the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor and at the time, the Adobe software hadn’t yet added the Film Read more …

Why the Fuji X-T1 is NOT my Photoshop camera | Glyn Dewis

Today I just wanted to touch on something about the Fuji X-T1 that I’ve had for the past 3 months. Ok so to kick off…why did I get it? Well there’s a few reasons for that and some of them Read more …

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Sharpening and Finishing Fuji X-Trans Files in Photoshop
and Lightroom | Thomas Fitzgerald

This is the long awaited final (for now) part of my series on Processing X-Trans files. In my ongoing quest to get the best from Fuji’s raw files, I’ve previously discussed the issue with Lightroom’s processing, some alternative ways of Read more …

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Create your own Lightroom Plug-ins with Photoshop Droplets |
Thomas Fitzgerald

Here’s a handy little tip I discovered recently. You can use Photoshop’s droplets to make Lightroom Plug-ins. Ok, that might be over-selling it slightly, but, by creating an action in Photoshop and then saving it as a droplet, you can Read more …