I discovered about six months ago that my Adobe Creative Cloud Photography subscription was a 12 month contract. And not a rolling monthly deal, as I had assumed. My contract renews on August 28th. Or it would have. But I ignored the offer of 3 months free to encourage me to sign up for another … Continue reading Adios Adobe
I'm almost ready to ditch my iMac as my chief photography processing machine. On the flight back from India, I plugged my SD card into my iPad Mini 4 (via a dongle) and processed the entire collection. It was an easy and pleasant processing experience. But I'd really want a little bit more screen real … Continue reading My Photographic Future
Love VSCO for Lightroom. That is all. No Brexit today. No election news. No Trump. Not today. Just Malaga, as seen by VSCO. Oh, and a newly styled banner at the top. A new fangled 'colour font'. Or, if you're from the wrong side of the pond, a 'color font'. You can check out what … Continue reading VSCO
For years and years, Adobe Photoshop was amongst the most pirated pieces of software on the planet. Not surprising, really. It was, is, the best photo editor available. And it was so prohibitively expensive, the only way the average Joe could afford it was to steal it. Then along came Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, to complement … Continue reading Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
I like taking photos. I like processing photos. I like sharing photos. What I don't like is naming photos. So I don't bother doing so any more. And I'm not a fan of the rather laborious task of manually geo tagging photos. Although I do like my photos to be geo tagged. Lots of web … Continue reading Geotag Photos
I recently rediscovered a cache of forgotten photos on a CD from a trip to Mexico in 2003. What to do with them? Well, get them all uploaded to Flickr, obviously. But how much did I want to 'play about' with them? For the last six months or so I have been going crazy with … Continue reading Memory v Masterpiece
Using filters in Lightroom helps bring out the best in what are often fairly ordinary photos. I like the image below. It has a glow/finish/saturation that appeals to me. It appeals much more than the original. It's one of a set of photos that's been sitting in Lightroom waiting for some post processing for a … Continue reading Stuck in Winter
The Mexile 