If you’ve been following our articles the last few months, you know that we’ve been testing Exposure to see how it stacks up against the likes of Lightroom and Photoshop. Exposure X4 was certainly up to the task, and now that Exposure X5 is here, we’re excited to see just how good it...

Photo by Josefa nDiaz on Unsplash If you shoot in RAW (which you should), you know that the image files are quite flat, with little in the way of color and contrast. This means that before you publish, print, or share images, you need to do some work to add life to the shot. The...

YouTube Screenshot/Alien Skin Software Using layers as part of your editing workflow is an excellent way to get creative with your images without impacting the original image itself. That is, each layer is added to the file - think of it like a stack of pancakes - each of which contains a...

photo by IanChrisGraham via iStock Sometimes the photos you take simply have more impact as a black and white photo. Perhaps the photograph is rich with contrast. Maybe there’s lots of textures or patterns. Or there might be interesting lines or shapes in the shot that could be accentuated in...

Photo by Atikh Bana on Unsplash Learning how to fix color casts is a simple process. This is fortunate because color casts are extremely common, so correcting them takes just a few moments. Before we explore how to fix color casts, it’s necessary to understand what color casts...

photo by kurmyshov via iStock We’ve all been there… The light might’ve been a little challenging or your camera settings might have been off (or maybe both!), and the result is an image that is just too dark.  While underexposing an image on purpose can help boost color...

photo by Maksym Azovtsev via iStock Lightroom Alternative For quite some time, Adobe has pretty much had the market cornered when it comes to post-processing software. Heck, I learned how to edit photos in Photoshop in the late 1990s, so that should give you a little perspective on their...

photo by Rawpixel via iStock More than ever before, photographers today have all kinds of tools at their disposal for getting the most out of their images. Indeed, post-processing is a crucial component of photography, but with so many different programs with so many different tools...