Category Archives: photoshop

Adobe Lightroom 2.3 update

Adobe Lightroom 2.3 has gone live!!! Besides the seemingly ordinary Nikon D3X and the Olympus E-30 support that probably doesn’t benefit you and I, there are several bug fixes including that multiple undo bug that wasted many of my precious time, and also it seems to have the memory leak under control this time. I...

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Windows Color Management, Lightroom 2, Windows Pictures and Fax Viewer, and Color Calibration…

Alright, I’ll admit I’m not as familiar with color management as I’m supposed to be, and there really isn’t a lot of ways to get around it without digging deep into the technical aspects in understanding how it all works. I got myself a new 24″ LCD a little while ago, and set the old...

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Tutorial: Adobe Photoshop basics – Levels

I browse about 100-400 pictures / day on flickr, and I notice a lot of pictures out there are underexposed or overexposed. The truth is, if a picture is overexposed, there really isn’t much you can do to save it; but if it’s underexposed, you have a pretty good chance of saving it. To understand...

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HDR Tutorial with Photomatix and Photoshop

Forewords: I hated HDR. Why am I even bothering with it and writing this? It’s only because there are too many that really give HDR a bad name, and I finally got around and decided to learn how to do it well myself. I’m not claiming to be an expert in this and I’m only...

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