Category: post-processing
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In my last post, I wrote abut the challenges of processing RAW files in ACDSee Photo Studio. The software has a great raw developer. The colour grading tools, in particular, are powerful and easy to use. But unlike many RAW developers, ACDSee Photo Studio doesn’t apply a default “look” to the RAW files as it…
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RAW processing in ACDSee hits a little different than some other RAW processors. In most RAW software, the processing engine applies a default preset to the RAW file. In many cases, this immediately gets the photo to a stage where it’s usable. If you’re in a rush, you can import the RAWs, let the software…
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Alfred Buckham, Daredevil Photographer was the name of a photographic exhibition at the Scottish Portrait gallery in Edinburgh. If you don’t recognise his name, you’ll probably recognise his most famous photograph. Yes, that’s a biplane flying over Edinburgh castle, with Arthur’s Seat in the background. Yes, it was before Photoshop was invented. No, it isn’t…
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North Berwick is a pleasant 35 minute train ride from Edinburgh’s Waverley Station. I go there regularly for the coffee shops, the busy high street, and of course the sea views. What I don’t go there for usually is photography, because the setting is all too familiar to me, Normally this isn’t a problem. Yes,…
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It’s often overlooked, but ACDSee Photo Studio remains a great choice for many people looking to manage, process, and edit their growing photography collections. Since it was launched in 1994 (over 30 years ago!) it’s been continuously developed and updated into a mature DAM (digital asset manager), RAW processor, and layer-based pixel editor. The ACDSee…
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I have cataracts. Of course there’s nothing unusual about that for someone of my age and I’m fortunate that, at least for the moment, it makes relatively little difference to my life. But I need extra light for reading, and I often struggle when trying to identify birds at the extremes of my binoculars’ magnification.…
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If you’re anything like me, most of the time you don’t even think about white balance. Set your camera to auto, shoot away … and the results are exactly what you expect. Sometimes your camera gets the white balance wrong, and that’s OK because DxO, or ACDSee, or whatever you use to tweak your photos…
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What’s all that about then? Dig into the menus of your Olympus camera, and you’ll likely find two different options for auto white balance. There’s the regular, default mode, and there’s another mode that says “keep warm color off”. Now, much as I love Olympus – and I’ve been shooting Olympus for long enough to…
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Have you ever gone back to a photo you’d forgotten, and found yourself wondering … how did I forget that? Of course your digital shoebox (and maybe an actual, real, shoebox if you’ve been taking photos as long as me) is full of photos you’ve forgotten. Occasionally you’ll go back to it, browse through, and…
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If you know The Unforgettable Fire by U2, you’ll know it’s a solid album — but it’s the cover photo that really sticks in the mind. What’s most interesting to me is that the photo wasn’t the photographer’s original idea. Anton Corbijn, who shot the cover, had come across an image of Moydrum Castle in…
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- Police van on Whitehall
- Improve RAW processing in ACDSee Photo Studio with custom presets
- Developing Olympus RAW files in ACDSee Photo Studio
- Agfa Ultra 100 – how much saturation is too much?
- Replicating a masterpiece … badly
- Capturing drama with a mobile phone
- Capturing texture in St Giles Cathedral
- A change of perspective
- What version of ACDSee should I use?
- Seeing through cataracts
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