Tony Northrup is wrong (about Adobe Super Resolution)
Take a look at the left and right halves of the image below. Hover with your cursor and click. These come from the same Canon RAW image. The left half …
Lightroom & post-processing
Adobe Super Resolution – Fuji X-trans Game Changer!
Impatience got the best of me so I didn’t wait for Adobe’s new Super Resolution feature to reach Lightroom (it’s said to be coming soon). So I tried it in …
Sharpen AI by Topaz Labs – a Winner!
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Kiane, a lovely Minneapolis-based model. One of my favorite shots of her was spoiled because I missed the focus. (Note to …
Einstein & Monroe
You may have seen this illusion. Look at it close-up, and it is Albert Einstein. Back away a few feet and it is Marilyn Monroe. What is going on here? …
Why you (probably) don’t need more megapixels
If you’re worried about whether you need more megapixels, I used to be like you; let me help you. You do not need more megapixels. I’ll explain in a somewhat …
Lightroom Enhance Details and Fuji – a winner!
Note: this was written late 2019. Fast-forward to mid-March 2021, Adobe launches “super resolution” – currently only in Adobe RAW and Photoshop. I will review it when it comes to …
John’s Big Note
A simple plugin to add a free-form note to your Lightroom metadata.
“John’s Big Note is a very simple plugin to add a big free-form note for your own metadata.” If you’ve worked in Lightroom for any length of time, there’s come …
“Chasing” in Lightroom
Color adjustment theory
In construction, an accumulation of small errors can aggregate to create a large catastrophic error. I once heard someone use the word “chasing” to describe this phenomenon. The way to …
Accidents will happen
…some of them happy ones
Working on an image I’d taken of some trees, I imported two slightly different Lightroom treatments of that image into Photoshop. My thinking was I might blend them to get …
Four ways of looking at a building
When you look at these images of a building, each taken at a different time of day, notice the different quality of light. How does our mind see times of …