Photo Editing Tips & Techniques
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Straighten Up
Try digital perspective control to take the oddities out of your tilted camera shots
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Unleash Unlimited Depth Of Field
Use stacked focus to create images that overcome the bounds of optics for your macro shots and more
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Use Lightroom Like a Darkroom
How to work like an old-school master printer when you’re processing images in the computer
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Solutions: Clarity
This incredibly useful control helps close the gap between actual global contrast and apparent contrast in a photo
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Solutions: Vibrance
Often thought of as nearly identical to Saturation, this control can be much more useful for nature photographers
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Digital Pitfalls: A Cautionary Tale
Tom Till recently had an epiphany about how much enhancement is too much. It’s easy to become enamored of the power of digital to make colors pop, but it’s also easy to become addicted to the point where you need more and more.
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B&W Transformation
Go from a weak color photograph to strong, dynamic black-and-white by taking advantage of HDR technology along the way
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Organization Will Set You Free!
Basic organization techniques to help you find, sort and catalog your images
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Solutions: Lightroom 4 Tone Controls
How the changes in Lr4 are important for nature photographers
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Solutions: Scanning Revisited
Breathe new life into your old film images by using powerful next-generation scanning software
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Digital Quick tips
OP Contributing Editor Jon Cornforth shares simple, but powerful steps to get your shots into top shape
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Enhance Your Landscapes
How to use Photoshop Layer Masks and Layer Styles to simulate a graduated ND filter without the drawbacks of an actual filter
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Auto HDR, Quicker, Faster And Better?
New DSLRs with Auto HDR features can create high dynamic range images in just seconds, but are the results worth the convenience?
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RAW vs. JPEG: Which To Choose
Should you be using one, the other or both?
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The Dark Secret Of Digital Photography
How the dark side of your photos can be limiting your prints
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Making Time-Lapse
Somewhere between still photography and full-motion video, time-lapse is moviemaking that any still shooter can do
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Advanced Cloning
Retouching techniques give photographers more control than ever. Try a combination of tools for removing distracting elements from almost any scene.
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The Making Of Compelling Black-And-White-Images
Beyond just removing color, see how structure, tonal relationships, form, texture and contrast all play key roles
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Supersized Panorama Stitching Tips & Techniques
Brandon Riza’s panoramas are crafted in the spirit of an Ansel Adams landscape. In each one, the mountains are larger than life, and the overall image is richly detailed and built from a series of high-resolution frames.
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Making Best Use Of HDR
Tom Till is a master of Southwest landscapes. Recently, he’s been using HDR software to overcome some of the challenges of these high-contrast scenes without generating the bizarre-looking, hyperreal effect that’s objectionable to many nature shooters
