Back in 2015 when Polarr Photo Editor was just getting started, they reached out to me to discuss converting some of my Lightroom Presets into their Filters. The conversation was going for a bit but then they changed direction and put the collaboration on hold. Since then I didn't hear from them and I had forgotten about Polarr Photo Editor....
Capture One 21 has just been released (8th December 2020) and one of the most talked about features is the Speed Edit keyboard shortcuts. They are a very convenient way to edit your photos very quickly. You can simply use the Keyboard shortcut and Mouse Wheel to adjust the settings or while presssing the keyboard shortcuts use the left/right...
There are times when you go out for a shoot hoping to capture a great shot but you come away with an ordinary one. Last Sunday was one of those times. I went out to Bare Island at La Perouse hoping to shoot some nice sunrise shots before I had to pick up my parents at the airport. Now this location is good 50kms from my place so I leave with 1...
Last week Adobe released a new update to Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile. But what they managed to achieve, was completely confuse the fuck out of people by renaming their products. Lightroom CC is now called Lightroom Classic CC. And it’s original name Lightroom CC has been given to Lightroom Mobile which was updated for the mobile and released...
As much fun as it is to create photos, its, even more, fun creating animated photos!! You bring the photos to life!! Don't you agree? What do you need? To create such animated images, you need to use Plotagraph + which is an online tool but now they have released iOS App for iPhone and iPad. In just one week of its release, this App has made it...
Luminar Neptune - A New Way to Edit Photos Harmeet Gabha, Editing 16 June 2017 Luminar Neptune is the latest release from Macphun which has many new features included and is a FREE upgrade for everyone who is already using Luminar. I happened to be lucky enough to get an early copy from the great team at Luminar and was able to check out the...
The field of photography is growing at exponential rate with cameras, accessories and software to let us capture amazing images. This also means software manufacturers are always competing for your money and producing software that is not only easy to use but is able to produce a better result than its competition. And competition is great for us...
A classic look has is a great way to create old looking images that you probably took yesterday. And when it comes to giving your photo a classic look, you think black and white or toned look. I have rediscovered the power of Analog Efex Pro 2 which is unlike any other plugin out there in the market. Google made the Nik Collection free earlier in...
Prisma is the latest new App for your mobile device that is taking the world by storm. The App, takes you images and converts them into work of art by applying styles of different artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan and patterns. It also creates some really cool sketched conversions of your images. I've been using the Prisma App for a few...
There are time when elements in the image may appear to be distractions and therefore deter from being a powerful image. Hence removing certain elements can be a good thing for your image. Some might argue that this makes the image fake or unreal but unless you are a journalist working for the news, it really doesn't matter what you do with the...
In this post, I take a look at the results of two HDR images created using two different software: Raya Pro by Jimmy McIntyre and Adobe Lightroom HDR. The image I used is from my recent trip to Auckland where I visited the North Head location and captured these images using DJI Phantom 3. The images were 5 Bracketed exposures, 1-stop apart so...
A lot of people believe that post processing is cheating and using any software like Photoshop or Lightroom to manipulate the original image captured by the camera is fake. However, often enough its due to ignorance because you may not know this but even in the film era there was post processing. I don't refer to developing process that involve...