If you have traveled with Cree and I, you know we love Photo Mechanic. This simple, inexpensive program allows you to look at photos faster than anything else….maybe that’s why the overwhelming majority of photographers covering the Olympics were using it. We use Lightroom like most photographers, but we use Photo Mechanic to cull images Read More
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New Photoshop Object Selection
Photoshop, and Lightroom, just keep making it easier for us to make selections. Take a look at my last post on LR and Subject and Sky Selection, great additions to LR. Photoshop got a few new Neural Filters, but what I really like is the Object Selection update. To find this tool, take a look Read More
Lightroom Masking Options Update
LR had a recent update that added a few useful features, Select Sky and Select Subject. If you are working in Photoshop, you are already familiar with these two options…great to have them available in LR now. A few screens have been changed as well. Here is how this works: First, when you open your Read More
Photoshop Select Sky
This summer we had an amazing assignment photographing hummingbirds for Nikon, and later we did two workshops in the same area. Cree and I love bird photography, and hummingbirds are just amazing! We took a creative approach to our hummingbird photographs. We used 5-6 speed lights and white backgrounds for many images, and styled different Read More
Tagging image in camera
I recently read some interesting blog posts from photographers photographing the Olympics. This photography is rough…..hours on the floor photographing, then back to your workstation to download, edit and upload select images to service bureaus and clients. The instant nature of news, social media and advertising has totally transformed turnaround times on images. Things have Read More
Topaz Bundle on Sale
One program I use all the time is Topaz Denoise. It just works, and consistently gives me amazing results. I may spend an entire morning photographing birds at ISO 6400, and I will run them all through Denoise. I don’t use Gigapixel or Sharpen as much, but I do use them from time to time. Read More
MacBook Air 13″ 2021 M1 chip
A few weeks ago I was backing up over 10,000 images on a big commercial shoot in Alaska. I had my 11″ MacBook Air to process images and backup flashcards to external drives. I loved this laptop, it was so light it felt like an iPad, I didn’t even know it as in my pack. Read More
New Lightroom Features June 2021
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
Photoshop Super Resolution using JPEGS
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
Photo Mechanic compare mode
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