Resurrecting Detail In Challenging Images With Photoshop

Before channel blending After channel blending Big problems call for big solutions. Blending channels is a powerful color adjustment strategy that can handle even the biggest challenges. Color adjustment occurs by modifying the tonal structure of individual grayscale channels. Typically, the information within them is...

Using Color Management For Color Adjustment – Synthetic Profiles

       Synthetic Profiles – Big Change Small Price How can you change the appearance of a digital image without changing the numbers that assign the colors in it? Change what those numbers mean, by changing image’s ICC profile. Using abstract or synthetic profiles, you...

Photoshop’s Color Lookup Makes Complex Color Effects Easy

  Original Image The Color Lookup Pastel8Hues creates very strong color effects. Any Color Lookup adjustment layer can be modified with Blend Modes.  The Color Lookup Adjustment Originally designed for color grading film and video, Photoshop’s Color Lookup feature offers novel ways to adjust color...

See Color In New Ways With Photoshop’s Gradient Maps

Before and after the Gradient Map      Whether used subtly or dramatically, Photoshop’s Gradient Map color adjustment tool can open up new ways of seeing and working with color for any artist. Photoshop’s Gradient Map assigns new colors to existing brightness values. With it,...

Photoshop’s Match Color May Change The Way You See

Source Target   Final Effect Photoshop’s Match Color   Little explored and capable of opening up whole new frontiers in color adjustment, Photoshop’s Match Color is a tool every user should be aware of – even if it’s only to know what’s possible. There are three...

Use Adobe Lens Profiles To Improve Your Image Quality

Do you wish you could improve the quality of the images your lenses deliver after exposure? You can, using software. Adobe’s Lens Corrections feature uses a digital image file’s EXIF metadata about camera and lens to automate cures for standard lens distortions, including geometric distortion,...

What In The World Are Raw Files?

Your digital camera can produce two types of files – Raw and JPEG. One can be seen instantly, because it is already processed – JPEG. The other, needs to be processed to be seen – Raw. Few people have actually seen what an unprocessed Raw...

The Most Amazing Wildlife Experience I’ve Ever Had

On our DPD (Digital Photo Destinations) 2018 Fly Antarctica Cruise The Polar Circle voyage, we’d spotted many humpback whales, from a distance. But late in the trip, we came face to face with them. Having seen, far in the distance, a whale breach high in...

Why You Should Profile Your Camera

You can significantly improve the clarity and saturation of the color you digital camera creates by creating a custom profile for it. The defaults manufacturer's provide and most people use are fine, but a custom profile built for your camera is better. X-Rites’ Color Checker...

My Top 12 Photographs Of Antarctica

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