photo by scyther5 via iStock Do you think you know Photoshop as well as you should?   Photo Manipulation’s Abbey Esparza doesn’t think you do, because she recently made a YouTube video outlining some really important Photoshop tools she thinks are underused.  After watching...

 photo by FG Trade via iStock The portrait job isn’t done until the portrait post-processing is finished. Generally speaking, when I talk about how to process a portrait, I like to emphasize remaining as true as possible to the original subject. But there’s nothing wrong with...

Knowing how to edit a landscape photo creatively will bring your landscape photography images to the next level of quality and viewability. Since there is such a variety of fine post-processing programs available, these landscape photography editing tips will concentrate on the creative aspect,...

 photo by gorodenkoff via iStock The days of scrunching over your laptop for hours on end, working tirelessly to edit your photos precisely are over.  Ikan’s recently-released Tourbox Photo and Video Editing Controller is the editing tool you’ve always needed but never...

photo by jacoblund via iStock Blown-out highlights are just part of photography, right? Wrong! There are measures you can take to protect against blown-out highlights. When shooting landscapes, you can expose for the highlights in the first place, shoot in HDR, or use a graduated neutral...

photo by AndreyPopov via iStock Lens Distortion and Vignetting All lenses - even professional ones that cost thousands of dollars - can create defects in photos that diminish their overall quality and visual appeal.  This includes distortion, in which lines that are straight appear...

Those of you that follow us here at PhotographyTalk know that we’ve been impressed with past versions of Luminar in addition to other Skylum products, like the venerable AuroraHDR. But Skylum, never wanting to miss an opportunity to wow us with advanced editing tools, is about to drop Luminar...

photo by aluxum via iStock The manner in which lenses are constructed can cause colored fringes to appear in the image along hard edges. These artifacts are known as chromatic aberration, which occurs when a lens refracts wavelengths of light onto different planes.  This short...