Flood 2 Plug-in for Photoshop – an Easy but Powerful Way to Add Water Reflections to your Images
You can create realistic water reflections in your photographs using Adobe Photoshop. But this can take quite a few steps and involves creating and using a displacement map. If you’re interested in creating water reflections in photoshop, here’s a blog…
Testing Sky Replacements on a Variety of Photographs – Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 vs Luminar
Luminar 4 by Skylum Software was the first of the major photo editing programs to automate sky replacements. They did an excellent job with this feature, easily allowing skies to be replaced in landscape images. With the release of Photoshop…
How to Create a Water Reflection in Adobe Photoshop
Water reflections are a popular subject for photographers. But sometimes you just can’t get the best reflection in camera. Adobe Photoshop can create a realistic water reflection image and it’s not that difficult to do. This technique can be used…
Workflow to go from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back and Not Lose Your Layers
Adobe Lightroom Classic is capable of storing the layers you create in Photoshop, you just need to be careful how you save and launch your images. First, I will discuss the different options to edit your files when round tripping…
A Really Quick Way to Create a Mirror Image in Photoshop
I’ve previously published a blog on how to create a mirror image and another blog with before and after examples of mirror images. There are always multiple ways to do things in photoshop and I’ve recently discovered a really quick…
Using Topaz DeNoise AI for Editing your Bird Photographs
Before purchasing Topaz DeNoise AI, I used multiple Photoshop layers and masks to selectively remove noise from the background and sharpen the birds in my photographs. This workflow produced great results but also was very time consuming. Using Topaz DeNoise…
How to Add a Comet to Stellarium
Comets are not preloaded into Stellarium, but it is quick and easy to load one so you can find where and when you can see a comet in the night sky. Here are the steps to add a comet to…
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning Your Composition
Composing faint or invisible deep sky astrophotography targets can be problematic. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques that can help with composing your target. There are two good and free tools you can use during planning to compose your image…
Clear Outside – A Terrific Weather App for Nature Photographers
I discovered the Clear Outside Weather App while researching Astrophotography apps, but it turns out that it is a really good weather app for anyone who photographs outdoors. Information in the Clear Outside App Clear Outside is a cool little…
Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning for The Weather
Partly cloudy skies are terrific for landscape photography and cloudy skies could be great for macro photography so you don’t blow out your subject. Not so for astrophotography where “Clear Skies” is a common salutation between astrophotographers. Partly cloudy skies…
