In this quick and easy video tutorial, Peter Carey explains how to remove unwanted objects from your images using the Spot Removal Tool in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0.  Whether wishing to remove a bit of sensor dust or, as in the example given, an entire ocean freighter, the process can be learned very easily.  Watch as he explains, in less than 60 seconds, how to clean up your images for best presentation.

Peter is an avid photographer who enjoys travel, portraiture and wildlife photography. A travel related blog of his past and current shenanigans can be found at The Carey Adventures.  He also hosts a Photo of the Day RSS feed found here.

In this quick and easy video tutorial, Peter Carey explains a how to straighten images the easy way in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0.  Gone are the days of guessing the proper rotation to balance out your horizons.   Watch as he explains, in less than 60 seconds, how to easily straighten any image.

Peter is an avid photographer who enjoys travel, portraiture and wildlife photography. A travel related blog of his past and current shenanigans can be found at The Carey Adventures.  He also hosts a Photo of the Day RSS feed found here.

Today portrait photographer Christina N Dickson shares tips on converting images to Black and White using Adobe Lightroom. Christina’s work can be found at www.ChristinaNicholePhotography.com.

For amateur photographers who want to wait on that $800 Photoshop software purchase, or professionals who want a user friendly photo editing interface, Adobe’s Lightroom is a fantastic $300 solution.

In Lightroom, there is a plethora of ways to sort, edit, and share photos professionally. This is also true for Lightroom’s black and white conversion process.

Lightroom has several options for black and white conversion. Here are 3 awesome ways to convert your images into Black and White – and get results that are different every time.

In this post Nathan Pask takes a look at a technique to get HDR Style Images Using Layers in Photoshop.

There currently seems to be a lot of interest in HDR or similar processes. What is HDR? Essentially, it’s about collecting a series of shots taken on a tripod at different exposures and allowing über clever software to merge them together to make one supposedly perfectly exposed image. There are various types of software or plug-ins such as Photoshop, Photomatrix or FDR Tools that make producing a HDR image fairly straight forward.

Photoshop Plug-Ins are the topic of this post by Chas Elliot.

I remember as a youngin’ I scraped together some cash and purchased my first bona fide copy of Photoshop when it was at a lowly version 3.0. In technology terms, this makes me sound ancient but I find comfort in the words of my old scout master, “I may be an old dog, but I still have a few sharp teeth”. Photoshop’s current version is now leaving version 10 (CS3) and is moving to CS4. It’s difficult to keep up with all the changes but it’s been an exciting ride. There are already some great articles written on DPS about Photoshop for you to sink your teeth into and they can be found here. Today, I’m only discussing a small but important aspect – the power of plug-ins.

What is a Plug-in?

Software companies have long realized that by opening their programs to outside developers they increase the power of their programs without much additional work. Photoshop was one of the pioneers in this concept, but today many applications you use daily allow third party plug-ins, although they may be called by different names. Firefox for example has a huge selection of what they call “Add-ons”, some of which are indispensable. For photographers, it’s not just Photoshop that has opened up for others to further enhance. Most adobe programs allow it, as well as many photo workflow applications like Apple’s Aperture, Bibble or Nikon Capture. Navigating your way through the maze of what’s available can make you feel like you just stuck a paperclip in a socket. That isn’t where the name “plug-in” comes from and I’ll try to make this a more enjoyable experience. As a side note, slightly lower on the evolutionary scale than full-fledged plug-ins, are Photoshop Actions. They lack the nice user interface of some plug-in packages but achieve similar results. For our purposes I have included them in this discussion.