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Category: Post-processing

  • Cropping Considerations

    All Rectangles Are Not The Same (or even Similar) Our friend, Ibis Hillencamp (whom you may remember for the advice she gave on our FAQ page about becoming a better photographerlink) thought people might need an explanation of a photograph’s aspect ratio and why you need to consider it when enlarging or cropping your images.…

  • 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 the Everglades in August 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? Was each of these steps really…