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
Add some depth to your creativity with the Styles from Capture One 22, there are some really nice Style Collections for Capture One
Let’s have a little look at some of the perhaps lesser-known secret tools in the new Luminar Neo, such as Color Harmony. Luminar Neo’s Color Harmony tool offers advanced options for color grading or control, with various sliders for specific looks. It’s also a great tool in LuminarAI.
The truth is Photoshop is NOT for everyone. So here are three reasons to stop thinking about Photoshop and find an alternative.
Labels are truly useful when organizing your photos, as you can assign them whatever meaning you wish, as opposed to numbered ratings.
How to really make your portraits pop by using the new Portrait BokehAI tool in LuminarAI? It’s been a little while in coming, but the new Portrait BokehAI tool is here (in Australia) and it’s pretty cool.
What about if you have Noise in your images due to high ISO or underexposed? How do you overcome noise in your nature photography?
I enjoy nature photography, but I am not quite as quick as the animals, so the problem then becomes How to fix a blurry bird photo?
We look at adding Lookup Tables (LUTs) and Gradient Maps in Photoshop to bring in some finishing touches to our creative portrait.
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.
