Enhance your Photos with Noise Ninja

Enhance your Photos with Noise Ninja

June 19, 2010 in Pro Apps by David John

I have been struggling with noise on a number of photos I have taken in extreme light situations. From low light landscapes through to live music performances many of my best captures have been blighted with grain and noise. In an attempt to make the best of a bad bunch I generally spend a bit [...]

Installing Presets in Aperture 3

Installing Presets in Aperture 3

June 16, 2010 in Pro Apps, Tips by David John

Over the last few days I have been working with Apple Aperture 3. The main motivation for such a move to Aperture from Lightroom is the fact iWork, AppleTV, iPhone and now iPad can sync or access images directly from the Aperture library. The truth is the Apple fanboy in me simply wants everything to [...]

Adobe adds Easy Watermarking to Lightroom 3

Adobe adds Easy Watermarking to Lightroom 3

June 8, 2010 in Pro Apps, Tips by David John

Previously we demonstrated how easy it is to add watermarks to your photos using the Mogrify plugin for Lightroom 2. With the release of Lightroom 3 Adobe have replaced the need for a plugin with a built-in preset option. Creating a watermark is simple and LR3 offers both image and text watermarking directly within the [...]

Easy Watermarking in Lightroom 2

Easy Watermarking in Lightroom 2

in Pro Apps, Tutorials by David John

Love them or hate them digital watermarks are commonplace on photos shared over the internet. From large copyright symbols that nearly obscure the entire image to more subtle corner marking can can sadly be easily cropped photographers feel the need to protect their art. There are a number of solutions to adding a custom watermark [...]

Adobe Release Lightroom 3

Adobe Release Lightroom 3

in Pro Apps, Tips by David John

Adobe have released version 3 of their professional photography software Lightroom. Lightroom 3 introduces a completely redesigned performance architecture that better handles growing image libraries and provides an unrivaled raw processing engine with noise reduction and sharpening tools to achieve the highest image quality.

How to Easily Move your Lightroom 2 Catalogue

How to Easily Move your Lightroom 2 Catalogue

in Pro Apps, Tips by David John

Over the last few months I have been aware of the unavoidable need for me to move my Lightroom catalogue to an external drive. My internal harddrive was filling up fast so taking a 250GB external USB drive I decided to move my library over.

Improving Photos with Brushes in Aperture 3

Improving Photos with Brushes in Aperture 3

May 25, 2010 in Pro Apps, Tutorials by David John

Aperture 3 brings a stack of new features to managing and processing your RAW photo library. One of the features I like most is the powerful brushes tool. Combine Aperture 3 with aWacom tablet and you possibilities are endless.

Apple Release Aperture 3

Apple Release Aperture 3

February 9, 2010 in Featured, Pro Apps by David John

Apple have announced a major upgrade to the RAW photography application Aerture. Aperture 3 features over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organise large photo libraries.

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