After 10 Years, Snapseed Gets a Major Update with Version 3.0
After nearly a decade of silence, Google has finally released Snapseed 3.0—a long-awaited update to one of the most beloved mobile photo editing apps. First launched in 2011 and last significantly updated in 2015, Snapseed has been a staple for…
Focus Stacking Made Easy: Why Luminar Neo Is My Go-To Plugin
One of my favorite features of OM System / Olympus cameras is Focus Stacking. The best part of this feature is that the image stabilization in these cameras allows you to get great focus stacking results while handholding the camera. Lately…
Improve the Productivity of Your Photo Processing in Lightroom and Photoshop with an Elgato Stream Deck
My son bought me an Elgato Stream Deck for Christmas. At first, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. After doing research and playing with it over the holidays, I not only improved the efficiency of my every day…
How Well Does the Remove Powerlines Feature Work in Luminar Neo?
One of the most time consuming and tedious tasks for landscape and street photographers is removing powerlines that are a distraction in your photographs. Skylum has introduced multiple AI features in Luminar Neo to make photo post processing faster and…
Give Your Macro Images a Creative Abstract Look with Boris FX Optics
Boris FX is known for its editing and special effects software for films. Boris FX has also released software that enables these special effects for photography – Boris FX Optics. Boris FX Optics Works great for producing creative, fun, and…
Testing the Photoshop 2022 Object Selection Tool on a Variety of Nature Photographs
Adobe has released an exciting new Object Selection Feature with their Photoshop CC 2022 release. This feature will automatically create selections on different objects in your photographs making it easy to individually edit these objects. There is also a new…
How to Rescue Really Noisy Bird Photographs using Topaz DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI
It was 6:45 in the morning. I was watching this Green Heron fishing and waiting for him to make a catch. Then it happened; he caught a fish that was larger than his head and bill combined. There was only…
How to Create a Custom Shaped Vignette in Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw and almost every photo processing plug-in has a vignette filter. So, why would you want to create a vignette in Photoshop? Creating a custom shaped vignette allows you to highlight subjects don’t have a circular…
How to Create Clean, Non Distracting Backgrounds for your Macro Photographs
A clean, non distracting background is one of the most important compositional elements for macro photography. In fact, next to sharp subject, it is probably the most important. A distracting background can have stray objects such as unwanted leaves and…
Keyboard Short Cuts to Speed Up Culling Your Bird and Wildlife Photographs in Lightroom
Culling your photographs can be one of the most dreaded tasks for photographers. This is especially true for Bird and Wildlife photographers who may have thousands of photographs to go thru to pick out which ones to edit and which…
