Photography Software Techniques

Move beyond the basics with advanced photography software techniques from our experts. Covering much more than how to use photo software, topics include color choice, file formats and hundreds of other subjects.

Reduce Noise With Multiple Shots Use Photoshop Layer Stacks to clean up an image Got noise in one exposure? Make a bunch of exposures and watch the noise disappear.  Read More...

Lose Noise With Plug-Ins Caponigro explains why and how he uses Noiseware Who doesn’t have noise? If you don’t run into noise in your digital images, at least once in a while, you may not be pushing the envelope enough.  Read More...

Blur Color Noise In Photoshop Try this simple but powerful technique to make a cleaner-looking image When you have noise in an image, there’s a lot you can do about it.  Read More...

Managing Your Photographic Legacy: Part 2 Taking a long-term perspective on creating your digital archive In all the years I was traveling and giving talks to photo groups on Adobe products and end-to-end digital workflows, the number of photographers I met who had truly developed a rational system for managing their digital library was very small.  Read More...

Reduce Noise With Adobe Camera Raw And Lightroom Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom both offer easy-to-use controls that will reduce noise without compromising image sharpness, saturation or hue variety Reducing noise in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom (the controls and results are identical) is easy. There are only two sliders for two different kinds of noise—Luminance and Color.  Read More...

Reduce Noise With Photoshop Filters Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Median and Reduce Noise are all tools that are built into Photoshop, and they may be the only tools you need Despeckle, Dust & Scratches, Median and Reduce Noise.  Read More...

Proofing To make consistent prints, a proofing regimen is a good idea Proofing: Evaluating an image printed on a particular substrate, making adjustments, reprinting, reevaluating the image, and repeating until optimum results are achieved.  Read More...

Hi-Tech Studio: Using Sound In Multimedia As photographers gear up to make more HD video and multimedia productions, there are quick and simple ways to add sound to your work to make it more polished and professional Photographers who make a move into creating multimedia presentations or shoot HD video with one of the impressive HD video D-SLRs will embark on a whole new art form, and very quickly you’ll find that it goes beyond the moving image.  Read More...

Noise: Lose It, Part II Reducing chrominance and luminance noise at capture Knowing the type and kind of noise produced will help guide you to solutions to reduce it.  Read More...

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