This blog post looks at the 'holy trinity' of photography software. Three products that, when combined, provide everything you need to develop your RAW images and edit your photos. There is some overlap between the three, as each continues to add to and refine their capabilities. Yet I don't view them as competing with each [...]
Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a big fan of Luminar. I last reviewed it here. As a RAW editor it is second to none. But Luminar has gone through many incarnations, and recent versions have seen a very poor attempt to implement Digital Asset Management features. I say 'poor' because all that [...]
Sharpening - Final Step Almost all photos need a degree of sharpening. A sophisticated approach is to sharpen your image in stages: During RAW development After post processing After resizing RAW processors do so much that it's hard to know if they are doing step 1, step 2, or both. In post 1 in this [...]
It's a busy day for photo software enthusiasts with two updates to leading edge photography software products: Skylum Luminar 4 and Topaz Sharpen AI. These tools are vital to good a digital photography workflow. Therefore, I am releasing a series of posts and YouTube videos showing how to use these products, and Topaz DeNoise AI in your workflow. [...]
I like Adobe's products. But I don't like their subscription model. Based on making many tests I think other, non Adobe, software is better. Here are my recommendations. Photoshop Alternative There is only one serious candidate for this: Affinity Photo. At less than £50 Affinity is cheaper than Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Paintshop Pro and it [...]
The folks at Skylum kindly granted me access to a beta version of Luminar 4. The release date is November 18th, so this is near to being the pre-release version. It certainly felt stable and fully featured. Even better, it supports Canon's CR3 files! Luminar 4 - What's New? Readers of this blog will know [...]
