Photo editing provides everything from minor photo retouches to outstanding effects. It helps you prepare photos for printing, sharing on social media, or submitting to photo contests. It also enables you to create a personal and cohesive artistic style. Although you can excessively edit your photos and ruin them, most of the time, your photos will benefit from post-processing. However, …
Photo Editing Plugins Pros and Cons
Digital photography has transformed photo manipulation into art. Nowadays, retouching and altering photos are so common that just the bravest photographers show their raw, non-edited images. 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 plugins. Our devices host several photo editing programs, …
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, …
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 …
The Traps of Excessive Photo Editing
Digital photography allows and encourages image manipulation. There’re countless photo editors able to perform dramatic image transformations, replace backgrounds, fix exposure, and remove objects from the frame. Moreover, apps like Facebook and Instagram provide filters and editing tools that are easy to use and efficient. We live in the #nofilter era, in which you have to announce that you share …