Software - Digital Photo Pro

March 27, 2019

ON1 Photo RAW 2019

Is this flat-fee photo editor and organizer a worthy alternative to Adobe Lightroom?

Brian Matiash

With the HDR tone-mapping feature in ON1 Photo RAW, you can easily merge multiple bracketed photos and recover highlights and shadows in very challenging tonal environments. In April 2012, Adobe announced a new subscription model initiative called Creative Cloud that sat beside its existing licensing model with the Creative Suite. Thirteen months later,... Read more

June 21, 2018

Managing The Confusion

Changes to Lightroom’s model have some photographers looking for alternatives

DL Byron

My introduction to “real” photo management happened when I outgrew iPhoto and installed Aperture. I learned quickly enough how powerful managing photos was, from staying organized to changing dates to adding GPS coordinates. Back then, I used it to create web albums and even made a slideshow movie. If I forgot to set up the camera’s date, I’d... Read more

February 27, 2018

Final Cut Pro 10.4

A small version number change, a big update for Apple’s legendary video editing tool

By David Schloss

Apple’s Final Cut Pro X is a program that exemplifies Apple’s recent design aesthetic: minimalist, powerful and a tad bit confusing. The dueling interests of adding sophistication to a tool while keeping that tool free of confusing interface elements is at the heart of all great design, and sometimes the complexity of a system gets so great that... Read more

October 20, 2017

Lightroom CC: The Truth Is In The Cloud

An Adobe Lightroom rant, but in praise of it

DL Byron

Look, anyone surprised by Adobe supposedly killing the pro version of Lightroom (now named Classic) and launching a cloud version hasn’t been paying attention. There’s so much going on in tech, photography and the world, in general, I won’t blame you if you haven’t noticed. I did because it’s my job and I’ve been using a prerelease version... Read more

September 7, 2017

Phase One Capture One Pro 10

The alternative to Lightroom has a big update

David Schloss

For most photographers, the photographic workflow begins and ends with Lightroom. Capture One Pro, developed by medium-format camera manufacturer Phase One, has lived for years in the shadows of Adobe’s 800-pound gorilla, attracting customers through word of mouth and through the passionate evangelism of its users. Capture One Pro was built around... Read more

September 27, 2016

Natasha Calzatti: Getting The Most Out Of Your Images

A photographer explains how simple adjustments can yield big results

Text by Mark Edward Harris, Photography by Natasha Calzatti

Photographer and post-production guru Natasha Calzatti teaches photographers how to get the most out of their digital captures through classes at Samy’s Camera and Santa Monica College in Southern California. In addition to efficient workflow and learning the tools available to us through state-of-the-art software, Calzatti emphasizes the importance... Read more

June 13, 2016

Automate Your Lighting Plans With A Unique App

set.a.light 3D studio lets you plan and document complex lighting solutions with the click of a button

By Theano Nikitas

set.a.light 3D allows photographers to auditon and document any number of lighting scenarios. Preparation, or lack of planning, can make or break a photo shoot. Fortunately, there are software applications to assist in production planning and to help ensure a successful shoot. One of these applications, set.a.light 3D Studio (that’s not a typo, it’s... Read more

March 1, 2014

Hi-Tech Studio: HDR Software

Get the full tonal range, create distinctive effects and make your images stand out with High Dynamic Range technology

By The Editors

HDR (high dynamic range) photography, in theory, is capable of displaying more of the range from shadows to highlights than the human eye can see. HDR merges together several images at varied exposures to capture the full range of tones. The final image, when created this way, is technically a composite. You’re capturing details from the extreme... Read more

February 11, 2014

Maintain Flexibility

Using Smart Objects in conjunction with Adobe Camera Raw gives you the ultimate nondestructive means of filtering that there is within Photoshop

Text & Photography By George Jardine

Camera Raw 1.0 first appeared as a $99 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 7 in 1999. The ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) plug-in only supported a few cameras in the beginning, but shooting RAW was quickly recognized by early digital adopters as the way to go, and things took off. After the initial launch, the plug-in shipped free starting with Photoshop CS, eventually... Read more

January 1, 2014

Defaults: A Double-Edged Sword

The pros and cons of using Develop defaults in Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw

Text & Photography By George Jardine

Whenever you import new photos into Lightroom, they always come in with the same basic set of settings. Every control is generally set to zero, with a few notable exceptions, such as the controls in the Detail panel. And these default settings seem to be the same for every camera. But did you ever wish that you could change that? At their most basic... Read more

June 18, 2013

DPP Solutions: jAlbum

Complex offerings in a simple-to-create online gallery and eCommerce service

By Staff

The jAlbum desktop software is designed as an exceedingly easy way to present and manage your photography on the web without the need for learning complicated programs. Hundreds of album themes are available for quickly and easily installing a template for showcasing your images alongside an integral eCommerce solution with print and image sales available... Read more

May 1, 2013

Inside RAW Files

A look at how cameras capture raw image data and why maintaining copies of your RAW files is an important and easy way to protect your most critical images

Text & Photography By George Jardine

Back when the first really good DSLRs were starting to become available, the vast majority of photos still were being taken on film. So when you picked up a digital camera for evaluation, you naturally compared it to film. The quality of film was the bar. The new digital images not only had to at least equal film in sharpness and resolution, but they... Read more

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