I love shooting with an infrared converted camera. It creates wonderfully dramatic landscapes. If you want the dramatic infrared look with the white foliage and dark skies, you must use a converted infrared camera.  Unfortunately the infrared files that come out of a converted camera have mostly red tones.  To get the great black and white infrared look, you need…

Teaching the gradient technique using Color Efex Pro 4 filters is one of the basic lessons I teach in all of my training sessions. I also receive requests to provide this technique in a written lesson format, and with that in mind, I thought that providing this lesson as a blog would be a great way start. Tips To Get…

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One of the things that people ask us about a lot is sharpening. So, here’s a quick tutorial on how we do it. There are lots of different ways to sharpen an image – and lots of tool available. Right now, we’re using a great tool called Nik Sharpener Pro for sharpening images for print and preparing images for web display. Jay used…

Discover amazing ways to create beautiful black and white landscape images with Nik’s Trainer to the Trainers, Janice Wendt, as she demonstrates how to convert a color image with Silver Efex Pro 2. Utilizing the powerful features in Silver Efex Pro 2, you now have the ability to control selectively the tonality throughout your image. Experiment with color filters, toners…

The Ink filter in Color Efex Pro 4 simulates the stylistic effect of special papers and toners that you can apply to your image. This is reminiscent of wet darkroom techniques used to change the color of the paper, either to warm or cool, in an effort to enhance, alter, or embellish the mood and story of the image. This…

There are some wonderful features in Snapseed, from Basic to Creative Adjustments. One of the Creative Adjustments that I use on almost all of my images is Frames. Frames have a unique organic effect which gives my images a nice edge and helps to hold them together. Not only are there 10 different Types to choose from, but each time…

Photographing after the sun has set can be really fun and exciting. The long exposures allow details that are hidden to the naked eye to be recorded in images. Many times these images need some post processing help to bring out all the details. Join Commercial Photographer and author, Alan Hess who specializes in concert and live-event photography, as he…

By Jon Lysons Since the first appearance of photo editing apps on the iPhone in 2009, the selection has exploded to include several hundred, if not thousands that offer a range of adjustment options to suit different needs. Some specialise in a particular function while offers have features that could almost rival a desktop application. Snapseed is one of the…

“In today’s world of computers, there are possibilities that we never had with film. One of them is the ability to more critically sharpen images. The current issue of Photoshop User magazine has a really interesting feature on how to affect the appearance of sharpness in images. But I know that for many nature photographers, doing a lot of work…