Some time ago I wrote a blog post called “Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop” which involved using the LAB color space to adjust an image. In the interests of those of you who use Gimp, this blog post is a revisit on the topic of dragging color out of lackluster images this time [...]
Over the last week I’ve had the opportunity to try out the latest Lightroom Preset collection from MCP Actions. It’s a collection of over 200 actions/presets. It’s called ‘the MCP Quick Clicks Collection‘ and its on on special until the end of the month (introductory price ends on October 31). Available either for RAW or [...]
One of the more popular tutorials that has been written and shared in the dPS forums was the following one from one of our members – LeeR on ‘Levels’. While written last year it continues to be popular with readers so I thought I’d reshare it here on the blog. One of the questions I [...]
One task I perform regularly in Photoshop and Lightroom is to assemble multiple images on a single page for printing. I love displaying my photos, for example, as triptychs –which are three side by side images. I’ve posted before on the process in Lightroom here and here and today I’ll show you how to do [...]
Are you looking to improve your post production of images? Our friends at Topaz Labs are offering dPS readers a special $100 discount off their Plug-In Bundle this weekend only. The offer ends at 11.59pm this Sunday night (23 October). The bundle includes 10 great tools for amateur and pro photographers wanting to accomplish the [...]
I’ve been talking to a few people lately about deleting catalog backup files. If you backup and optimize your catalog every time you close Lightroom then, over time, you will end up with a lot of excess catalog backups. Each of these backups will consume disk space so the question becomes – what is in [...]
Photoshop has a huge range of shortcut keys for speeding up your day. Here are my ten best shortcut keys that I suggest you add to your Photoshop toolkit: 1. Find the sizing handles When you paste a layer or selection into a Photoshop image – if it is larger than the current image it [...]
When you’re setting up single or multiple image printing in the Lightroom Print module here are some things to be aware of: 1. Nonexistent Drag and Drop You can drag and drop pictures onto a print template in Lightroom in some circumstances but not in others. This can be confusing but there is some logic [...]
One feature of Photoshop is its ability to store things like custom shapes, brushes and workspaces so you can use them again and again. Saving settings you use a lot in Photoshop will save you time in future when you need to repeat the process. Here are six handy ways to speed up your work [...]
Identity plates are one of the best kept secrets in Lightroom. There are lots of ways that you can use Identity Plates in Lightroom not only to customize the interface as I discussed in this post but also customize your print, web and slideshow applications. In this post, I’ll show you how to create and [...]
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