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
There are now two brand new style collections available for Capture One, both offer different editing styles to create your own unique look.
Sometimes you capture an image that is nice, but could do with a bit more pizazz, that’s when creating Dual Tone images in Luminar Neo can make a real statement. I’ll walk you through how to do it.
Want to know how to add a texture or lighting overlay in Luminar Neo, it really is quite easy. Luminar comes with several Lighting overlays, and you can even add your own customer textures and lighting elements.
It doesn’t seem to matter how good the hair and makeup are there always seem to be a few of those pesky flyaways and stray hairs, so annoying. But they are fairly easy to remove in Luminar Neo with the Erase tool.
Take your images from drab to fab quickly in Luminar Neo. A few deft changes and some AI (artificial intelligence) enhancements and you’re good to go in mere minutes. Which is brilliant for someone who doesn’t want to spend their days editing. So if the shoot is more important than the edit, check out these simple edits
Making eyes pop in Luminar Neo has never been easier, with a few sliders and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) now available in Luminar FaceAI.
So I put together my ten best tips for getting around in Lightroom. These are tools within Lightroom I use pretty much each and every day.
I was asked HOW to remove people from your background in Capture One. So I put together a quick little video how to quickly remove objects
Do you shoot crooked horizon lines sometimes? Me too, here's how to straighten horizon lines in Luminar AI & Neo quickly and easily.
Looking for a quick tutorial on How to blur your background and change focus with Photoshop Neural Filters, here it is.
Sometimes we have unwanted objects in our frame, or in the case of the below image my background didn’t quite cover all I needed. However, there are a few ways to quickly and simply do this. Like using the Clone Stamp tool to expand your frame.
For as long as I have been involved in digital photography, and probably even longer, there has been a LOT of hype about Adobe Photoshop. Don’t get me wrong it’s fantastic, I love it and I use it all the time. But the truth is Photoshop is NOT for everyone. Not everyone is actively creating digital art. Not everyone is wanting to spend hours and hours trying to figure out seemingly complex tasks for basic photo editing. So here are three reasons to stop thinking about Photoshop.
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.
