Archive for the 'Columnist' Category
Localized Editing in LR2–
Applying more than one type of adjustment at a time
Click the Show Effect Sliders switch to drag sliders for each effect and to apply more than one type of adjustment at a time (Image 31).
Adjustment Brush Tool
To use it, select the tool in the tool strip (or press K). In the tool’s [...]
Sharing Images (6)–
The column has been receiving a lot of photo submissions lately from new readers and even more from previously featured ones. Today, we will be dispensing with the usual special feature in order to provide more space for our new contributors.
IT professional Melvin Mamado writes that he started on photography 10 years ago [...]
Keeping Things Safe–
Some of us get into photography because we want to preserve memories. Others, because there’s this gadget lust. Still others are into the art of it. Regardless of the reason, sooner or later, there will be megabyte upon megabyte of picture files filling up gigabyte upon gigabyte of hard drive space. It’s just [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to
Flash Photography
Power Management of Your Flash
(Part 49)–
(Author’s note: The Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) battery has been in use by photographers for a few decades now and yet there has not been a local publication that discussed in detail about the properties of this battery chemistry. To give readers some important information, this author will [...]
Sharing Images (5)–
Readers who are interested in studying the data patterns of their photographs may want to try out the freeware, Smart Photo Statistics. This program compiles the data such as the aperture, exposure, focal length, image size, ISO, number of pixels, metering mode, flash use, and camera model from a target group of images. [...]
Just to Check–
We’ve been talking about how to act when you’re not the photographer in a shoot or as an assistant to a photographer for some time now and some points have been raised. It may be a good thing to go through them one last time before moving on in an effort to put [...]
Localized Editing in LR2 (Part III)–
The Graduated Filter tool is the first of two local adjustment tools in the tool strip (Image 22). It works very much like the graduated filter that popularized by Cokin but it is more flexible and its use is expandable. For example, you can use it to change the exposure, [...]
