Photographing Dartmoor PART 2 Camera, Lenses & Gear In my previous article – you can read this here – I spoke of the joys of walking and photographing Dartmoor, particularly in spring, autumn and winter. Here i want to talk a little about the camera, lenses and gear I used as well as the editing …
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Dartmoor National Park in Autumn resplendant in wonderful reds and oranges againt blue moody skies, it’s a place to behold.
Reducing Harsh Stage Lighting Colours in Post-Processing This article looks at the problems associated with harsh stage lighting in photography and in particular, how to reduce strong lighting effects in post-processing. In particular it looks at how applications like Affinity Photo, ON1 PhotoRAw and Luminar Neo tackle this problem but the methods are applicable to …
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It’s hard to believe but Luminar Neo has gone from £35 to £268 in less than six months! Ridiculous? Read on, it gets worse! With Skylum’s recent restructuring of the Luminar Neo product line, a perpetual licence for Luminar Neo has risen in price from £35 GBP to £268 GBP in less than six months. …
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Skylum release details of Luminar Neo but can it conquer the editing space! What is Luminar Neo? Luminar Neo is Skylums current flagship product. It is also their latest product. Prior to this, and this is over perhaps just a five year period, they have launched Luminar 2018, Luminar 3 & 4, Luminar Ai and …
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Skylum launch Luminar Neo 1.2.1 as a bug release. This latest update brings nothing new to the party for Skylum but don’t underestimate Luminar Neo, it’s a seriously good editor which can really polish any photo. Here’s what’s new in this latest release: So, What’s New? So, nothing of huge relevance here other than of …
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Skylum release HDR Merge but are they up to their old tricks? SHORT OF TIME. Here’s a short summary of my article Skylum release Luminar Neo v1.2.0 with Dodge & Burn plus a few bug fixes Still missing is the much needed Clone & Heal tool Skylum roll-out “paid for” extensions with the introduction of …
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In this article we are going to be looking at improving an old damaged family photo using Affinity Photo Some photos just cry out to be saved. Old family photos often fall into this category as they are often neglected and hidden away. The photo above, of my family including my mother and father, cousins …
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Luminar Neo – no DAM so no good? Well, not necessarily! With Luminar 4 Skylum scored one hell of an own goal. Slow, inefficient, lacking features, the list goes on. For me, it killed off a relatively good editor and I moved on to other software, ON1 PhotoRAW and Darktable for example. It didn’t mean …
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Since it’s launch back at the begining of February Luminar Neo from Skylum Inc. has received a few updates which have improved usability and functionality so I thought that this would be a good time to take another look.The key question on everyones mind, does Luminar Neo v1.0.2 get Skylum closer to the perfect editor? …