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Colour in Composition | Thomas Fitzgerald

I recently read a post on a popular photography blog talking about how you should learn to ignore colour to be a better photographer. They weren’t talking about just black and white images either, they were talking about all photography. Read more …

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A Look at Replichrome II from Totally Rad | Thomas Fitzgerald

Replichrome is a set of film emulation presets for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw developed by Totally Rad. Recently Totally Rad launched the second set in the Replichrome series, Replichrome II. The first set was designed to emulate print film, Read more …

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Fuji Colour Profile Presets for Lightroom to help speed up your
workflow | Thomas Fitzgerald

Now that Lightroom has added colour profiles for Fuji’s x-series of cameras, you may want to use them regularly in your processing. Rather than having to go down to the calibration menu each time and find the profile in the Read more …

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Lightroom 5.4 and Lightroom Mobile Released | Thomas Fitzgerald

While I was wrong that there would be a major upgrade to Lightroom this week, I was right in my suspicions that something was coming. It turns out that not only did Adobe release an upgrade to the desktop version, 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 …

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Film Candy for Lightroom Now Available | Thomas Fitzgerald

Film Candy was originally developed for Aperture, and there have been three versions. I’ve been getting requests for some time to port them to Lightroom, and it turned out to be more difficult than I first thought, however I think Read more …

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Updated X-Trans Sharpening Presets for Lightroom |
Thomas Fitzgerald

A while ago I posted some sharpening presets for sharpening images taken with one of Fujifilm’s X Series of cameras in Lightroom. I was attempting to find a way to minimise some of Lightroom’s idiosyncrasies when it comes to X-Trans Read more …

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Processing Fujifilm x-trans raw files in Aperture |
Thomas Fitzgerald

This it the latest instalment in my ongoing series looking at how various raw converters handle raw files shot on one of Fuji’s cameras with an X-Trans sensor. In the past I’ve written a good bit about using Iridient Developer Read more …

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Photo Ninja for X-Trans Processing | Thomas Fitzgerald

In an ongoing series looking at alternatives for processing X-Trans images, I’ve already looked at Iridient Developer and I’ve written about using Aperture. I’ve also posted some of my initial thoughts on using Photo Ninja. Now that I’ve had some Read more …