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Revolutionise Your Photos: The Ultimate Guide to AI Photo Retouching

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AI Photo Retouching: Revolutionising Digital Imagery Thankfully, photo retouching has evolved dramatically, thanks to AI. (it used to take forever in the 2000’s) This video is from a while back, but shows you steps which are helped by AI… From amateur selfies to professional portraits, AI photo retouching techniques are making waves, providing tools that […]

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What difference 12 months makes?

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The 12 Month Test Have you ever looked back to things you did 10 years ago? You should see some huge progress and changes, based on everything you’ve learnt, new tools or technologies and just growing as a person. But have you ever looked back just one year and revisited something? Like a “Remix” in music

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Can you photoshop me?

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Anybody who photographs “normal people” will hear this question – every single shoot! It’s our “question everyone asks”. People want to look their best and they put their trust in you, also a great Icebreaker. The answer is “Yes of course”, we always do “something” to the photograph, just how far and how long we

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Modern Property Photography

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Like many people I have used HDR or purely ambient light for property photography for years, when time permitted I would use a a flash or 2 to add some light to the rooms but the results were always a little bit garish, bright and weird shadows would get in the way. This relatively novel

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How to get Maximum Sharpness with Focus Stacking

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Sometimes you just cannot get everything in Focus in one shot… This happens a lot when you are photographing landscapes with a very close foreground, the background becomes blurry if you focus on the foreground, and vice versa. In this tutorial I show you two photos I took of the exact same scene, all the

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FREE Luminosity Mask Extension in Photoshop

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Photoshop now comes with lots of “extensions” you can install – either paid or for free – you get to them from this menu item That opens up a web browser – you need to be logged in to your Adobe account if you’re not on Creative Cloud this may not work.

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LIGHTROOM TUTORIAL – Konigsee Bavaria

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A Bavarian Lake Scene Here’s a photo of the stunning Konigsee, part of our 2016 trip to Austria. It’s taken by our friend Julie Pfeiffer, who came all the way from Milwaukee to join us in Tirol. The shot is from the banks of the lake next to a beautiful church. Wiki Says…. Situated within

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Lightroom and Photoshop – Focus Stacking Tutorial

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Front to back sharpness Here’s how it’s done! Even at F16 with a wide lens, you can struggle to get everything sharp in a photo. If you like getting a foreground object such as a boulder or stream in your shot – the background may get blurry – of the foreground may get blurry… it

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Oxy – Personal Trainer Photography Session

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See How Easily Focus Stacking You Gives Ultimate Sharpness In Your Landscape Photos

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Focus Stacking in Landscape Photos If you like to get everything pin sharp in your landscapes, Focus Stacking is for you. If you shoot low with foregrounds which are very close to the lens, then it can be hard to get the background AND the foreground pin sharp. Focussing 1/3 of the way into a scene

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Retouching in Photoshop

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Retouching in Photoshop – Skin and Eyes Lightroom has so many great tools that Photoshop is fast becoming redundant for most tasks. Retouching is one area where Lightroom still needs development. There are tools for skin softening and bumping eyes, but they don’t really have the same accuracy or fine results. For most commercial work

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