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Photo Editing Plugins Pros and Cons

Digital photography has transformed photo manipulation into art. Nowadays, retouching and altering photos is so common that just the bravest photographers show their raw, non-edited photos. New photo editors or updated versions of old ones appear every year, and we’re curious to try them. Moreover, we’re constantly tempted by new presets and editing plugins. Our devices host several photo editing …

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Four Photo Editing Steps to Fix Your Photos

With so many photo editors and filters at hand, it’s easy to fix your photos or produce amazing artworks. However, it’s also easy to overdo it and process your images too much. If you photograph the real world and want natural-looking images, photo editing should be subtle and honest. Focus on getting the right exposure, a well-balanced composition, accurate colors, …

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Create Sharp Photos with Focus Stacking

There are times in a photographer’s life when lighting conditions, gear, and camera–subject positioning don’t align the way the photographer wants and a shallow depth of field is impossible to avoid. You have to choose between sacrificing your composition and rethinking the frame or finding a way to extend the depth of the field. The good news is there is …

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What’s New in Affinity Photo 1.9

Affinity Serif launched the 1.9 versions for the whole Affinity suite. This includes improvements and bright new features for Affinity Photo too. If you don’t use Affinity Photo 1.9, it’s a good time to consider it and see why it can be a better image editing solution for you than Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom. If you already use Affinity Photo, …

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Use Affinity Photo, Five Reasons Why

The job of a photographer doesn’t end after pressing the shutter release. At the beginning of photography, the film had to be developed in order to see the photos. Today, the photos have to be edited in order to produce their best version. For many years, digital photo editing was the kingdom of Adobe Photoshop. However, it’s not the case …

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The Golden Triangle Composition Technique

Many photographers use composition techniques such as the rule of thirds and the golden ratio. But fewer know about the golden triangle and how powerful this composition technique can be. The golden triangle uses diagonals and creates dynamic compositions that reveal their elements slowly and invite the viewer to spend more time observing. The technique is used in art and …

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Use Juxtaposition in Photography

Juxtaposition means placing different objects next to each other or even overlapping them, in order to enforce a comparison between the objects. Therefore, many photographers associate juxtaposition with contrast and photograph opposite objects to emphasize the difference between them. However, juxtaposition refers to the act of comparing objects and not to the contrast between objects. They might very well be …

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Change the Color of an Object

Image editing skills are much required in commercial photography. Product catalogs, stock libraries, and fashion magazines provide a wide variety of similar objects in different colors. The customer is more likely to buy something that he or she can see in real color and from as many angles as possible. Instead of taking photographs of identical objects in different colors, …

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Create Dreamy Photographs

Dreamy photographs have diffused light, blurred areas, and soft focus. Photographers use this ethereal look in portraits, especially wedding and fashion portraits, but also landscape pictures. Dreamy photographs express romanticism, nostalgia, transience, serenity, and calm. They enhance the natural beauty and hide skin imperfections or a cluttered background. You can achieve dreamy photos directly in the camera or through post-processing …

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Photo Editing Powered by Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Photoshop is still the most famous photo editor on the market but more and more photographers prefer the new generation of photo editors. Most modern photo editors are powered by artificial intelligence. For a professional photographer, image editing means RAW processing subtle adjustments on contrast, color, and brightness, noise removal, details and structure enhancement, and lens corrections. Thus, you …