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How to Watermark Your Photos in Luminar

July 17, 2024November 26, 2017 by Dan Carr

In this video I’ll show you how to watermark your photos using one of my favourite photo editing applications, Luminar. The logo that I’m using for my watermark was created by Photologo, a great service that makes hand-drawn logos for photographers. I’ve written a lot more about this service, and my experience as a customer, in a previous Photologo review. Watermark Luminar Tutorial IMPORTANT: Due to deficiencies in the way that Luminar handles images with a transparency layer, you will need to download this Luminar preset in order to follow along with this tutorial and use a white watermark. The …

My Top Two Landscape Photography Lenses

July 7, 2023November 21, 2017 by Dan Carr

Using metadata sorting options in Lightroom I investigated the focal lengths and lenses that I use for landscape photos. The result surprised me!

How to Add Sun Rays to a Photo with Luminar

July 24, 2024November 3, 2017 by Dan Carr

In this video tutorial I’m going to show you how to add sun rays to your photo using Luminar from Skylum Software, and also explain which images work best for this kind of edit. Luminar has rapidly become my go-to Lightroom and Photoshop editing plugin, and with Luminar 2018 they added some cool new features that will help us with this task. Example Image The first image is the RAW file from my Fuji X100. The second image has gone through the process that is demonstrated in the YouTube video above. Click to view them larger. Whilst sunshine can be …

The BEST Way to Move Files Between Lightroom and Luminar

July 17, 2024November 1, 2017 by Dan Carr

Luminar from Skylum Software is one of my absolute favourite photo editing applications. You can use it as a standalone editor, or you can integrate it into Lightroom in a couple of ways. Most people are aware of the regular way in which you can use Luminar as a Lightroom plugin, but in this video tutorial I’m going to show you a second way that gives you MUCH more control over how your images are opened in Luminar, and how the edits are then organized in Lightroom. If you’re a Lumniar user, it’s a quick one, don’t miss it. If …

How to Add a Signature Watermark to Your Photos in Lightroom Classic

July 24, 2024October 29, 2017 by Dan Carr

Adding a watermark of some sort to you images should be considered a necessity if you’re going to share them online or with potential clients. Over the years there have been many instances where new clients have come to me, having found a photo of mine on the internet somewhere. It’s not always possible to determine the copyright holder of an image from the metadata, because much of the metadata is stripped from photos when they are uploaded to social sharing websites. Having a clear watermark somewhere on your image will give you a fighting chance at being found if …

3 Ways to Watermark your Photos Using Photoshop CC

July 17, 2024October 25, 2017 by Dan Carr

In this video I’ll show you three different ways to watermark your photos in Photoshop CC so that you can choose the one that fits best with your workflow. We’ll cover placing embedded smart objects, as well as utilizing Adobe CC Libraries to store commonly used graphic assets. The logo that I’m using for my watermark was created by Photologo, a great service that makes hand-drawn logos for photographers. I’ve written a lot more about this service, and my experience as a customer, in a previous Photologo review. Watermark Photoshop Tutorial

How to Auto Import Multiple Edits into Lightroom From Photoshop Round Trip

July 24, 2024October 15, 2017 by Dan Carr

Video Tutorial Get it on YouTube here, or scroll down for the full text description. Auto Importing Photoshop Edits into Lightroom At some point in the development of Adobe Lightroom CC an important change has been made that is sure to please a lot of photographers. So far this doesn’t seem to have been reported on, and Adobe’s own online resources still teach a now outdated methodology for this particular important piece of workflow. What we’re talking about today is the process for round tripping a photo from Lightroom into Photoshop and then back into Lightroom again. Most seasoned Lightroom …

How to Set up Your Canon Camera for an Aquatech Underwater Housing

July 8, 2023October 11, 2017 by Dan Carr

When the Canon 5D Mark IV came out I wanted to buy an underwater housing for it so I could begin to experiment with some new types of photography. I went with an Aquatech Elite housing, and I’m guessing you did too if you’ve ended up on this page, or at least you’re thinking about it. This isn’t going to be a review of the product in any way, it’s simply a quick guide to getting it all set up. At the time of writing this, the Canon 5D Mark IV is the current model, but I’m pretty sure there …

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Wordpress For Photographers – Beginners Guide

April 20, 2022October 3, 2017 by Dan Carr

WordPress is an incredible tool for photographers to use when they need a professional looking website. It’s also one of the cheapest ways to get a full-featured awesome design that can integrate a blog and sales portals for your prints. Learn all the basics in this feature-length guide for beginners.

Cloud Backup for Photographers

April 29, 2022August 25, 2017 by Dan Carr

Regular readers of the site will know that I’m always hammering on about how important a good backup strategy is. Hard drives will fail, as sure as the sun will rise. It’s only a matter of time. When I get into backup discussions with other photographers, we always seem to end up on the same topic: Cloud backups. A solid backup strategy should always follow the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of every photo, 2 of which are local but on different drives, and at least 1 offsite copy. My current backup routine achieves this, but it’s the last step, the …