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.

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...

Noise: Lose It, Part I Eliminate noise at the source Noise happens. There’s always some degree of noise present in any electronic device that receives or transmits a signal.  Read More...

Layering Noise Part 2 in a series on You can further customize any noise pattern in Photoshop using layers. When adding noise to digital files, keep noise separate from the image so you can control both independently of one another.  Read More...

DPP Solutions: When You Need A Big File With the right software, you can increase resolution and maintain top image quality You can’t beat megapixels when you need big prints. Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition from onOne Software gives you more pixels—incredibly good pixels—from a digital image. That’s enough pixels to make a 4x6-foot print at 300 dpi from a 6-megapixel original image, or a 6x9-foot print at 300 dpi from a 12-megapixel original—or a 19x28-foot event sign at 100 dpi from a 12-megapixel image.  Read More...

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