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Martin Belan

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  • Using Stream Deck with Lightroom and Photoshop
    Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
  • Photoshops Object Selection Tool
    Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
  • Sparrow with and without Custom Vignette
    Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wood Stork Blurred Background Before & After
    Bird Photography,  Photo Processing

    How to Blur the Background of your Bird Photographs using Photoshop

    Sometimes you get really sharp photograph of a bird but the background is distracting because it’s not blurred enough.  A blurred background (also called Bokeh) can bring more attention to your subject (the bird) and really make your bird photographs…

    By Martin Belan
  • Mourning Dove in the Fall Color - Before & After
    Photo Processing

    Add the Photoshop Select Subject tool to Your Nature Photography Workflow to Make Your Images Stand Out

    Adobe added a “Select Subject” tool to Photoshop in Photoshop CC 2018 and has continued to improve the tool in future versions of Photoshop. The Select Subject tool in Photoshop isn’t only for Portrait and Model photographs?  Turns out that…

    By Martin Belan
  • Yellow Flower with Texture
    Nature,  Photo Processing

    How to Easily Add Textures to your Nature Photographs using Photoshop

    Adding texture to your nature photographs can make your images more interesting and give them an artistic look.  This works well on flowers, macro photographs, even landscapes. I know there are plug-ins you can buy that can add textures to…

    By Martin Belan
  • Jantar Mantar Star Trail Sky Replacement
    Photo Processing,  Software

    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…

    By Martin Belan
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