Lightroom

Lightroom 6 Deadline drawing near

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Adobe Lightroom 6 discontinued

As reported a few days ago, Adobe announced that they will discontinue Lightroom 6 towards the end of the year and that there will be no Lightroom 7, which also marks the end of perpetual licence. The clock for the end of Lightroom 6 is ticking. Adobe have just announced a compatibility update for Lightroom […]

Lightroom

Is Lightroom being replaced?

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Adobe Lightroom

Recently, Adobe announced the new version of Lightroom CC (cloud-based) and at the same time announced that Lightroom  will be discontinued and there will be no Lightroom 7. So what is happening with Lightroom? Are we going to see “old-style” Lightroom CC replaced entirely by the new cloud-based Lightroom CC? Watch this video with Tom […]

Cameras

Mirrorless Cameras Myths

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Fujifilm X-System

There are many myths around mirrorless cameras, which I’m going to demistify and clarify here. Low Pixel Count Mirrorless cameras like DSLRs have different pixel counts but they’re not lower than their DSLR counterparts, i.e. Sony Alpha 7 II has 42.4 Mpx and Fujifilm GFX 50S has 51.4 Mpx. Small Sensors Mirrorless cameras have exactly […]

Photography

Getty Images bans Photoshopped Images

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retouching images

Starting on 1st of October, Getty Images will ban images that are “Photoshopped”. This is in accordance with the law, which comes into life in France on 1st of October, which requires digital images that have been retouched to have a label notifying users about the changes. Getty Images will no longer accept images, where […]

Cameras

Fujifilm Free Upgrades

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Fujifilm X-System

One of many things that surprised me a lot when I moved to mirrorless (and Fujifilm specifically) was getting firmware upgrades for cameras that would not just fix bugs but also improve performance of my camera and even add new features! I’ve never seen anything like that with DSLR cameras… And yet, Fujifilm have been […]

Photoshop

Curvature Pen Tool for Photoshop

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Adobe are working on a new tool for Photoshop – “Curvature Pen tool”. They have now showed a Sneak Peek video showcasing this tool. According to Photoshop Product Manager Meredith Payne Stotzner, the tool is coming soon in one of future updates to Photoshop and apparently it’s very easy to use. Here’s a video from Adobe […]

Photoshop

Layer Masks Tips in Photoshop

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Layer Masks in Photoshop

I guess most of us have used Layer Masks in Photoshop before so I won’t be explaining how to add them and what they do. What I want to focus on today is some tips and techniques when using Layer Masks in Photoshop. Here they are: To view just the layer mask – Alt+click layer […]

Photography

500px now supports Wide-Gamut Colour Profiles

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Marek Mularczyk on 500px

Photography sharing website, 500px, announced adding support for wide-gamut colour profiles. It also allows now for searching for images based on the colour profile. So far, 500px has been converting images to sRGB but now it supports wide-gamut colour profiles like Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB as well. “Though sRGB has been standard in our […]

Technology

Super Fast & Tiny Samsung T5 SSD

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Samsung T5 portable SSD

Samsung has released a super tiny and super fast portable SSD – Samsung T5. Samsung T5 SSD will come with up to 2TB capacity and with transfer speeds of up to 540 MB/S. This hard drive will use Samsung’s 64-layer V-Nand technology, which will allow it to reach such high speeds in a small and […]