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Linear Profile Repository: Use Linear Profiles in Lightroom (LR)

Mastering the Linear Profile in Lightroom: How a Camera Profile Can Transform A Photographer’s Work Most photographers accept whatever profile Lightroom or Camera Raw applies by default. The image pops up looking bright, contrasty, and “about right” — so we crack on. I used to do exactly the same. Then a good friend introduced me

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The Best Lightroom Alternatives You Can Buy Outright: ON1 Photo RAW MAX vs Luminar Neo vs DxO PhotoLab 9 vs Capture One

Lightroom Alternatives You Can Actually Own Outright There’s this daft idea that once you leave Lightroom you’ll be crawling back within a year, waving your credit card and muttering apologies to Adobe. Utter nonsense. If you’re an enthusiast who wants cracking image quality, a sane one-off payment and software that doesn’t nag you every month,

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The Joy of Editing Photographs: Choosing the Right Tools for the Job

The Joy of Editing Photographs: Choosing the Right Tools for the Job Half the fun of photography is getting outdoors and capturing those moments in-camera. Mastering exposure, composition, and building rapport (if you’re photographing people) is an adventure in itself. Add to that knowing your seasons, tides, weather, and locations—well, you’ll never run out of

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How to shoot and edit extra-long exposures with a 10-stop filter

  In advance of our Manchester workshop, where I was going to show the delegates how to shoot extra long exposures, using 10 stop (or even 15 stop) neutral density filters, I popped down to the beautiful world heritage site at Saltaire.    If you’ve not been, this is the site of a Victorian Mill,

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4 FAST Retouching Tools which Won’t Break Client’s Banks!

Can you Photoshop me???? How Much £££ !!!!????? That’s our most commonly asked question and it’s only natural because everybody wants to look the very best and a little bit of tweaking goes a long way. But doing high-end retouching can take a long time, and end up costing an “absolute fortune”, which is something

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