TourBox Neo Review – A Better Photo Editing Controller
The TourBox Neo is a physical controller designed to speed up your photo and video editing workflow. Let’s take a look to see how well it works!
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Photo Mechanic Keyboard Shortcuts – FREE Download
Learn all the Photo Mechanic Keyboard shortcuts and download a free PDF reference guide to keep on your laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Free Download: Affinity Photo Keyboard Shortcuts (Simple List)
Affinity Photo is award winning photo editing software available as a one time purchase, rather than the subscription model offered by Adobe if you want to use Photoshop. Not only does it have power that rivals Photoshop, but it’s also able to work with PSD files, so you need not worry about collaborating with people who use the Adobe suite.
Editing Walkthrough: Olympic National Park Landscape
In this post we’ll walk through my Photoshop workflow for creating this image of Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park.
Review: ShutterCheck – How To Find a Canon Camera’s Shutter Count
Have you ever wanted to find out the shutter count on your Canon camera? The ShutterCheck app can tell you! Here’s my quick review.
How to Measure Memory Card and Hard Drive Speeds
Measuring the speed of your memory cards and hard drives can help you isolate problems, and show you weaknesses in your photography workflow. The software to test these things is free and simple to use! In this post I’ll show you my top three.
Disk Drill Review – Recover Lost and Deleted Photos
Accidents happen, and unfortunately the vast majority of people don’t have a safe photo backup strategy like mine. If you do find yourself in a situation where you’ve lost some photos or other files, you have a couple of options: Firstly, if it’s a hardware failure such as a dead disc platter, you’re only option is to send it in to a data recovery specialist and pay a large amount of money. If your disk or memory card won’t even mount to your computer, or it is making a catastrophic noise, this is really your only option and there’s no …
A Roundup of the Best Digital Asset Management Software
Digital Asset Management (DAM) can be defined as highly efficient software that organises and process files whilst advocating collaboration and file sharing of your digital assets. These assets could be documents, photos or videos (amongst many other file types). Whilst it might seem easy at first to create new folders in ‘My Documents’, the more projects you create the harder it is to access and remember where they’re all stored and sorted. This is where DAM can make a huge difference to how you organise your assets to increase work productivity DAM is also important for file safety, security and …
How to Correctly Open RAW Files in Luminar from Lightroom Classic
Another quick Luminar tutorial for you guys today, and this time we’re looking at how to open RAW files. Just like Lightroom, Luminar is a fully fledged RAW photo editor but unless you open the RAW files directly into Luminar from your file browser, it can be a little confusing. If you don’t do things quite right you might end up editing a converted TIFF of your image, instead of the original RAW file. This would definitely degrade the final image quality and you wouldn’t be pulling all of the available dynamic range out of the RAW file. Luminar RAW …
Think Twice Before Buying Capture One Pro 11
UPDATE: At Photokina 2018, Phase One announced that it would now support the RAW files from the Fuji medium format system. I’m super excited about this because this is a much more forward thinking attitude, and it also shows that Phase One are listening to consumers. I know many people were pretty pissed at me for writing this original article, but I’m glad that I did. I wasn’t the only one that spoke up about this, and collectively I do think we made a difference in this instance. Thank you Phase One!! I now look forward to getting my hands …