I’m very excited to be able to share this week’s Filter Friday which I created with Snapseed for Android.  As an Android user without an iPhone, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Snapseed for Android.  Now that it’s here, I’ve been going back through my mobile photos and having a blast quickly and easily enhancing them with Snapseed.  Here…

When photographing landscapes, one of the most challenging issues we have to deal with is shooting in non-ideal situations such as harsh midday sunlight, when the shadows are very dark and the highlights blow out all of the details.   One way to deal with this challenge is to bracket and fire off several shots at different exposure values, then…

“The best camera is the one you have with you,” said photographer Chase Jarvis. Having good software to help enhance and polish those images is also very important. Below is an example of an image that I took from my camera phone and then added a few filters using Snapseed to give it that old style look. I began by using the Drama…

Sometimes, it doesn’t take much to enhance a flat, monotone image and give it more depth and artistic flair. By using a filter in Color Efex Pro 4, we can transform an image quickly and easily.  The Film Efex: Nostalgic filter creates effects based on imagined film types and gives the feeling of having been captured by a toy camera….

I love how quick and easy the Nik Software tools make it for me to quickly adjust and enhance my photos. I took this image mid day, in a combination of shade and bright sunlight, and Viveza 2 allowed me to quickly and easily correct the harsh lighting and dark shadows in the image.  Color Efex Pro 4 let me…

Congratulations to Craig Ferguson for his beautiful image of Laomei Green Reef. This image was selected because of his depiction of shapes within a landscape. Thank you to everyone that participated!   Share an image on Google+ where you used either a digital or glass filter or both, and tag your image #filterfriday curated by +Laurie Rubin. We’d love to see how filters have helped…

It’s Filter Friday!  This week I used Color Efex Pro 4 to enhance a portrait shot on a slightly overcast evening at the beach.  I used a lot of the different filters within Color Efex Pro 4 to achieve some subtle changes that really made the image stand out. Here is the original: I liked what I had to start…

Sometimes it just takes a little bit of selective adjustment to fine tune your image. Viveza 2 is the tool I use when I want to bring out some of the details in my image, and to adjust for color and light. In fact, I use it on almost all of my images. My workflow consists of first using Dfine…

It’s Filter Friday!  I enhanced this long exposure travel image with Color Efex Pro 4 to really intensify the colors, give the image depth, and make it pop. Here is the before image – a 4 1/2 minute exposure of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC: In Color Efex Pro 4 I added just a touch of Bleach Bypass to…

It’s Filter Friday!  Lets take a look at a wedding image enhanced with Color Efex Pro 4.  Color Efex Pro 4′s ability to stack filters made it easy to quickly add different filters to enhance this image.   Here is the before: I wanted to soften the skin tones and the background just slightly more, as well as draw the…