Animated GIF Photoshop actions

By On 12/08/2016

Animated GIF images are getting more and more popular again, because they can add a nice touch of motion to websites without the need of video and because they can run in a never-ending loop. Usually people create these images from a series of photos, just like the frames of a video, but a nice […]

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‘Through the woods’ Lightroom presets

By On 04/07/2016

One of the strong points of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is that you can save often used develop settings as presets, so that you can apply these settings with one mouse click. Presets can also be shared between users, and several companies and individuals offer their presets for sale. You can argue that paying for presets […]

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Lightroom Mobile, iPad and RAW

By On 14/06/2016

Suppose you have shot some photos in RAW, that you uploaded to your iPad through the camera connection kit. Lightroom Mobile can import images from the Camera Roll, but not RAW images. Even Adobe says so in their Lightroom blog. But now it turns out this isn’t true…

If you ask Lightroom Mobile to import […]

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Where did ‘Automatic’ go?

By On 09/04/2016

If you have updated to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC2015.5 recently, and you have tried to stitch a panorama photo in Lightroom using the ‘Photomerge’ option, you may have wondered where the ‘Automatic’ projection has gone. Up till Lightroom CC2015.4, the Merge to Panorama dialog did not only contain three manual projection options (Spherical, Cylindrical, Perspective), […]

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Photoshop tip: See layer mask only

By On 05/03/2016

If you work with a layer mask in Photoshop, it is sometimes difficult to see if you really masked all the areas that should be masked. Here is quick way to check the mask and edit it if needed: Alt-click on the mask icon in the Layer palette. You will now see the mask only, […]

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Lightroom 6.4 / CC2015.4 update

By On 27/01/2016

Adobe has released an update for Photoshop Lightroom that will bring the application to version 6.4 or CC 2015.4, depending on the kind of license. The 6.4 update adds lens profiles and new cameras, and corrects a problem where Nikon cameras could not be used in tethering mode on a Macintosh running MacOS X El […]

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