Julie Powell is a photographer, writer and educator, offers unique photographic opportunities and inspirational ideas to help YOU become the photographer you wish to be.
All in Post Processing
Older digital photos are OK, but not quite print-worthy these days. So how to enlarge old photos without losing quality?
we are looking at blurring the background, adding texture, some simple lighting effects and some LUTs to really enhance the final image.
Photoshops Content Aware tool is perfect for filling in gaps and expanding your frame
What exactly are LUTs? Especially in regard to photography? It's a colour grading tool, that takes a profile and applies this to your images.
Is it possible to recover sharp focus in images? When there is a more camera blur or are a softer than you would like? Try Sharpen AI.
I recently did a creative portrait shoot with Little Red Riding Hood on location in a forest. It very was dark and very gloomy, which made for challenging shooting. I was using the fastest lens I had to shoot in this dark environment and overall I was pretty happy with most of the shots.
And when you crop into an image to any significant amount you lose a LOT of detail. Well, the clever people at Topaz Labs have largely solved that problem
Using presets in Lightroom to speed up your workflow, is a fabulous use of the software. When it comes to editing a bunch of images from a single photoshoot, you can dramatically speed your workflow up by creating your own Preset. They are quite easy to create. You can even make your own collections.
Are you looking to create a soft romantic look for your portraits? It’s never been easier in LuminarAI. You can also add a creative element to them as well.
Often when using a large aperture like f/2.8, you get a small or narrow depth of field. A small horizontal slice of the image, rather than the whole image in focus.
Are you looking to create a soft romantic look for your portraits? It’s never been easier in Luminar AI. You can also add a creative element to them as well.
In this last instalment of my colour grading mini-series, I take a little look at the different tones in your image with the Color Balance adjustment, allowing you to add various colours to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows of your images. I personally like to add a little yellow in my highlights and a little blue in my shadows, but you can play around and find a colour balance that’s just right for you.
In the last video (Part one) we looked at Selective Color, this instalment I take a little look at the Channel Mixer in Photoshop. I really like the quick and easy way to work with the different channels of color even in a B&W/Monochrome image.
There are so many great ways to use colour in Photoshop non-destructively. From altering the colour of clothing to subtle adjustments in shadows and highlights. You can use a myriad of tools or just one or two. In this three-part mini-series, I explore a few of my favourites. Starting with Selective Colour.
A great way to add some interest to your photos is with using LUTs in Photoshop. LUTs (Lookup tables) have mostly been using for color grading film and video for years, think cinema blockbusters.
I adore using curves in Adore using curves layers in Adobe Photoshop, I think I use that one tool, more than any other, quick and easy and can make such a difference with little effort.
I recently was given access to a Beta copy of the soon to be released LuminarAI to review, I was just a little bit excited to see what changes they had made and just how well the Portrait Tools section would work.
Getting comfortable with artificial intelligence can take a bit of getting used to. Being a Gen. Xer, we are perhaps seen (by some) as a little cynical — I mean we rode the computer generation wave to a degree. We saw the first home computer revolution, I watched as my children take to it with ease as I struggled to figure out a mouse.
It’s been a little while, but I have just released a new range of Lightroom Presets…Sweet Hydrangea Collection.
I recently did a brief overview of my first time playing with Boris FX Optics, and I must say it was rather difficult to fit everything into a short 15 minute video. So I thought I might come back with a bit more of a breakdown. This time I want to show you the parameter settings available for the presets.
