How to Use Edit Presets on Photos in Lightroom CC

The editing presets in Adobe Lightroom CC are extremely helpful to use for two main reasons: They offer a recipe of visual aesthetics, or presets, for you to try out on an image. They show how the controls in the editing panel change to achieve each preset, so you’re able to learn how to achieve… Continue reading How to Use Edit Presets on Photos in Lightroom CC

How to Use After Effects: Precomposing

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn about precomposing in After Effects using an example project. When working in After Effects, there will be times when you will need to precompose your layers. For example, let’s say you have a text element that you need to use multiple times. Instead of duplicating your… Continue reading How to Use After Effects: Precomposing

Photojournalist Susan Meiselas: How to be in the right place at the right time

“Tentful of Marks.” USA. Tunbridge, Vermont. 1974. (CARNIVAL STRIPPERS, page 82). ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos In June, Susan Meiselas received the PHotoEspaña 2022 Award for her career as a documentary photographer covering cultural hotspots including Nicaragua and Kurdistan. As part of the Per Amor l’Art Collection, her series Carnival Strippers commands its own room at Círculo… Continue reading Photojournalist Susan Meiselas: How to be in the right place at the right time

Retouch4Me is a suite of Plugins that use AI to retouch your photos in the blink of an eye

It seems like you can’t go a day without hearing about AI lately. It’s well and truly becoming a regular part of our lives, and of course, features in several Photoshop and Lightroom features and plug-ins now. So of course, it wasn’t going to be long before other companies started developing AI to help with… Continue reading Retouch4Me is a suite of Plugins that use AI to retouch your photos in the blink of an eye

7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography

The post 7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by John McIntire. Black and white portrait photography is beautiful, it’s powerful, and it often seems to communicate more than just a subject. But how can you capture gorgeous black and white portraits? What are… Continue reading 7 Tips for Stunning Black and White Portrait Photography

New England Guide: Best Things to Do in Cape Cod & Martha’s Vineyard

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”― Jo Walton New England Guide Relax your shoulders, close your eyes and fill your lungs with that refreshing, salty sea air… the Cape in Massachusetts is home to some of the country’s best beaches and is a… Continue reading New England Guide: Best Things to Do in Cape Cod & Martha’s Vineyard

These landscape ‘photos’ were generated by an AI

This landscape doesn’t really exist. Stability AI, generated by Aurel Manea Romanian photographer and artist Aurel Manea has used a new text-to-image AI to create beautiful, almost-photorealistic, landscape images.  First noticed by PetaPixel, Manea used Stability AI’s Stability Diffusion—a DALL-E 2-like text-to-image generation tool—to make the series of incredible landscape “photographs.” By using prompts like… Continue reading These landscape ‘photos’ were generated by an AI