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  • How to Create Clean Backgrounds for Your Macro Photography
    Macro,  Nature,  Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
  • Photography,  Software

    Photographers – how to Easily Post your Photographs to Instagram using your Mac

    Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms for sharing your photographs and short video clips.  The problem is that you can only post your content from a mobile device. When you log in from a browser on…

    By Martin Belan
  • Culling Photographs in Lightroom
    Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
  • Nature,  Photo Processing,  Software

    Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts that Will Save you Time Editing your Nature Photographs

    Keyboard short cuts can save you a lot of time editing your images in Adobe Photoshop CC.  But there are hundreds of keyboard short cuts in Photoshop.  There are single keystrokes, keystrokes with the Shift key, Alt key, Control key,…

    By Martin Belan
  • Trumpeter Swan Flapping its Wings
    Bird Photography,  Photo Processing,  Software

    How to Post Process Your Bird Photographs in Lightroom and Photoshop

    It is difficult to develop a detailed, step by step recipe for post processing bird photographs as every image is different.  But in this blog, I’ll describe my processing steps at a higher level and my decision process for how…

    By Martin Belan
  • Flower Before and After Texture
    Photo Processing,  Software

    Improve the Backgrounds of Your Nature Photographs by Adding Textures in Topaz Studio 2

    Topaz Studio 2 is a terrific plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom Classic to add creative looks to your nature photographs.  One of my favorite filters in Topaz Studio is the Texture Filter.  Adding textures can give an artistic look to…

    By Martin Belan
  • Import Your Own Textures Into Topaz Studio 2
    Photo Processing,  Software

    How to Add Your Own Textures to Topaz Studio 2

    Topaz Studio 2 gives you a lot of power and flexibility in customizing textures for your photographs.  Topaz Studio 2 comes with dozens of textures that are accessed through the Texture filter. But, you can also add your own textures…

    By Martin Belan
  • Renaming Multiple Photos in Lightroom
    Photo Processing,  Software

    How Do You Rename a Bunch of Photos in Adobe Lightroom?

    When importing your files into Adobe Lightroom, you have the ability to specify a file name text and format for files that you are moving from your card to the Lightroom library. But sometimes you want to rename files that are…

    By Martin Belan
  • Flamingo Art created with Topaz Studio AI
    Nature,  Photo Processing,  Software

    Use Topaz Studio 2 to Add an Artistic Look to your Nature Photographs

    Topaz Labs has combined several of their legacy photography processing plugins (Impression, Texture Effects, and Clarity) into one plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom – Topaz Studio 2.  Topaz has also added some new, powerful editing filters in Topaz Studio…

    By Martin Belan
  • Canada Geese In the Sunrise
    Bird Photography,  Photo Processing,  Software

    Does the Sky Replacement Feature in Photoshop Work for Bird Photographs?

    There are plenty of blogs written on using the Adobe Photoshop Sky Replacement feature on landscapes.  But does Photoshop’s Sky Replacement feature work on bird photographs? A lot of times in bird photography, you get a really good, sharp image…

    By Martin Belan
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