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Nerd Alert! Capture Time Adjustment in Lightroom
For those of you who aren’t so good at remembering to set the time in your camera to match the time zone you’re shooting in – it’s possible to change the original capture time of your image from within Lightroom Classic, after the fact. Here’s a short tutorial video demonstrating the technique.
Adding an Edge
Using Photoshop’s Crop Tool in tandem with Content Aware Fill, you can tack on canvas area and add a little breathing room to an otherwise cramped composition. In some cases, you might even be able to restore part of a subject got cut off by the edge of the frame. Before starting this technique, finish…
How to Build Watermarks in Lightroom
A watermark is a faint logo or words superimposed on top of an image. The idea of placing a watermark on your photos is to prevent others from trying to copy and use the photo without permission. Although a watermark identifies you as the creator of your photo, it won’t stop someone from swiping it,…
Detail Oriented – Getting Tack Sharp Images in Post with the Detail Panel
Don’t get too excited. The techniques in this article won’t rescue your out-of-focus images. Out-of-focus photos can’t be recovered in post, but you can (and should) enhance the sharpness of properly focused pictures to maximize their potential. What is Sharpness? Without getting too technical, you might say that sharpness is edge contrast. Sharp edges have…
Optimizing Exposure by ETTR – Exposing to the Right
If you’re not already shooting with the help of your camera’s histogram, it’s time to start. A histogram is a graph that shows the distribution of tonal values from black to white in your image, and it’s a very accurate indicator of overall exposure. By not checking out the histogram as you shoot, your exposures…
Home on the Range
Mastering Lightroom Classic’s Color and Luminance Range Masking Tools With the addition of Color and Luminance Range Masking to Lightroom Classic, Adobe bestowed new superpowers to the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, and Radial Filter. Range masking tools are a great way to bring pro-level precision to your local adjustments, allowing you to build complex masks…