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Lightroom just keeps getting better and better.  When Adobe announced Super Resolution for Photoshop, people were impressed.  This new feature greatly increased the size of your image, with really good results.  So after heavily cropping that wildlife photo, you could still have enough file size for a decent print.  The new LrC update adds this Read More

With Photoshop’s new Enhance Super Resolution, many photographers are enlarging their images right out of camera raw.  No third party plugins needed, and you get a beautiful result to crop or print.  One question we have received a lot is can you use this feature (soon to be released in Lightroom) using jpeg or tiff Read More

If you have joined one of our online classes from the last year, or have been on one of our workshops, you know how much we love Photo Mechanic.  We use this on the road for quick editing (without having to download to Lightroom…that happens on our main computers in the office after the trip) Read More

I can’t count the number of times I have photographed wildlife and wished I had a longer lens.  If possible I always try to fill the frame in camera for tight wildlife shots.  But what happens more often is I have to crop down from an existing image.  One of the great things about the Read More

Last year I talking about Topaz Sharpen AI.  I liked the program, and it worked well for sharpening images.  However, it didn’t have the ‘wow’ factor that Topaz DeNoise AI had.  I have never seen better results reducing noise as Topaz DeNoise produces.  Getting DeNoise was an obvious choice. Topaz has updated Sharpen AI since Read More

During our online Creative Camera Class, we spent one day discussing black and white imagery.  Converting to black and white has benefits.  First, without the bias of color, you are forced to look for other graphic qualities like texture, shape and form.  Portraits become very raw, and it is easier to have a direct connection Read More

For many photographers, their organizational system depends on their Lightroom catalog.  Just open up the program, type in a keyword in Text in the search field in the Library module, and LrC finds your images.  But have you ever imagined what would happen if your LrC catalog failed?  Say you never backed up your LrC Read More

For all of you Nikon mirrorless users Adobe has updated Photoshop, Lightroom and ACR to read NEF files from the new Z6II and Z7II.  If you are on the creative Adobe plan you should have received a notice letting you know updates are available.  Update now so you can start reading those NEF files.  Z7II Read More