Ever notice that when you assemble an HDR image you often end up with spots in the sky that you never even noticed in the original images? HDR algorithms seem to accentuate contrast, and “invisible” spots can get the proverbial light shined upon them once they’ve gone through the HDR process. One option is to […]
TTG CE3 Theme For WordPress
Well, Matt at The Turning Gate has done it again. I really don’t know how he can make Lightroom do the things he can make it do. Anyway, he recently released his latest: TTG CE3 Theme for WordPress plug-in for Lightroom’s Web Module. If you read my blog, and you are right now, this WordPress […]
Where are my pictures!?!
Common cures to what ails many Lightroom users Problem: You know you’ve just imported those #&*#$@ pictures but now you can’t find them. This seems to happen soon after images are imported and you want to do some work on them. You can blame Lightroom all you want, but just a little consistency on your […]
Transitioning your existing TTG site to the new CE3 version: PHPlugins
The new TTG CE3 web plug-ins for Lightroom are arguably the best thing to happen since I discovered the joys of a truly good Pinot Noir. Or chocolate chip cookies. Kind of a tossup there. But there’s been a big break from the older, still amazing, TTG CE2 plug-ins. The new CE3 plug-ins were rebuilt […]
Adding a “Verify email” field to your contact form
The Turning Gate Pages and Client Response Gallery both use the free FormToEmail script to process and email contact forms. It’s really slick. Using FormToEmail, your email address isn’t visible to email address mining bots so you don’t get spammed. Well, not as much as you would otherwise. I just found out that if someone […]
TTG Publisher released into the wild
I’ve been testing the new Publisher plug-in from The Turning Gate for the last few weeks, and last week the release version was made available. You can read what I’ve previously written about it here. I gotta say that I’m completely amazed at how well this works and how easy it is to update galleries […]
Focus blending in Photoshop CS5
Similar in purpose to the Helicon Focus program, Photoshop CS 5 is capable of taking several images of the same shot, each focused at a different point, and blending them to create a single shot with everything in focus. Theoretically. It usually works pretty well, or at least gives you a good starting point to […]
Maven Filters
High quality magnetic photo filters that will change your photographic life!
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Topaz Labs
Awesome plug-ins to reduce noise, sharpen, and resize images. Affiliate link!
Think Tank
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Lightroom Classic The Missing FAQ
Highly recommended. This is my go-to Lightroom book. Click on the book image. Affiliate link!