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Category: Post-processing

  • Minor Milestone Yields Thoughts On Cataloging

    I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop since before we started this endeavor but didn’t buy Lightroom 3 until December 2010. I purchased Lightroom to catalog and keep track of Nancy’s growing collection of photographs (I still do virtually all of our photo editing in Photoshop). At the time, Nancy already had about 15 thousand digital images…

  • Adding Size-Appropriate Objects To Your Image

    revised 5/17/2022 I’ve had a few opportunities lately to help people edit their photographs where they wanted to combine two photos into a composite and were worried about the relative sizes being proper, especially when the camera settings and/or the scene were not identical.  Based on these experiences, I’ve created a couple of scenarios to…

  • How We Digitally Stretch Our Gallery-Wrap Edges Before Printing

    To download a printable version of this article (GalleryStretch.pdf), click here That’s about it. Feel free to leave comments or questions.

  • Making “Eclipse Over Long Pine Key”

    Our latest image, Eclipse Over Long Pine Key, of the solar eclipse in August in the Everglades was by far our most complicated yet. While spending hours and hours overcoming challenges in post-processing, I wondered if I was wasting my time – would anybody even be interested in the results and was each of these…

  • How To Find The Area Of An Object Using Photoshop

    Mathematical or drafting programs may do a better job of finding the area of all sorts of seemingly random two-dimensional shapes.  And I may have used one or two of these as a student.  But I haven’t had any of them on my computer for many moons.  So when I recently needed to compare the…