So I’ve written a couple posts about the new ON1 Photo RAW 2019.5. Really a great set of Photo Editing Software that can be everything you want it to be.
But why just trust me and my opinion? Try it for yourself!
ON1 Offers an Month long full Function Copy for free. So download it for yourself, try it on YOUR photos. See how easy it is to organize and get to the final image YOU want quickly and completely
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The following is a repost of an article on my sister site: Peter Tellone – Photographer
Perspective and Point of View are not the same in Photography/Art
A couple months back I read an article on a “School” blog post about Perspective. I was like, “No, that’s NOT Perspective, that’s Point of View”. But I didn’t say anything because I don’t like doing that to authors, especially knowing they didn’t get paid for that post and were just trying to do their best and teach something. BUT it is a “school” so it bothered me that people were being taught wrong.
Yesterday, I had the chance to photograph the difference, so I thought I would take the time to show the difference in the two.
First off, it’s easy to see why these two get confused and also why people use the terms synonymously. If you looked up either of the terms you would see the other in the synonym or definition. 
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ON 1 Rolls out Photo RAW 2019 with some Big Improvements
This week on one software rolled out ON1 Photo Raw 2019 with some great updates to the ever-improving software.
ON1 is great at listening to its users and most of the improvements and features are based on use feedback.
The Photo RAW 2019 MAY have the best updates ever to the program and may even change the way you edit or think about editing
So, here’s what’s new and then we’ll look at each closer
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In this article we will compare 8 of the most popular HDR Processing Software currently available including:
*Note: You can skip reading this next part if you just want to get on with the review.
I have long avoided doing a head to head comparison like this. For a couple of reasons. Mostly because it is a conflict of interest, in two ways. In the first way, I represent.as an affiliate, some of the companies reviewed here. So if I say something is good, how do you know it’s not just me pushing something I possibly could make money on? Secondly, It’s a conflict of interest to myself since photography and this website are my only means of making a living. So if I don’t promote things, I also don’t eat. This is why I most times would just review one piece of software at a time, do the FTC announcement to let you know that I may or may not have a financial connection to the company and then give you my honest opinion of that piece of software. That last part I ALWAYS do. But the truth of the matter is, affiliate deals are not what they were at one time and I make far more of my living selling Prints now. And I thought a good way to do this was to do the head to head, Give some opinions on how they performed but in the end NOT TELL YOU, “This one is the best!” or even give you a “Top 3” I’ll give you the info and the results. YOU make that choice, and it WILL be different for different people since HDR styles are very spread apart from Mild to Wild and not all, do all. So here you have it: 8 HDR Software Roundup.
Topaz Labs has released an update to their popular Adaptive Exposure Plug-in – Adjust
Topaz Adjust makes images seem more like what our eyes saw and tames some of the dynamic range inconsistencies cameras have.
The update takes into account some of the changes in Monitor technology that has occurred since the last release of Adjust. The updates include:
Just to give you a taste of what adjust can do. Here is a before and after using Topaz Adjust
Adjust can be used as a Photoshop and Lightroom Plug-in or as a Plug in with their free Topaz Studio
Macphun Software announced today that they will be changing their name to “Skylum”.
The company feels that because of the recent addition of Windows OS editions of both Luminar and Aurora, Macphun doesn’t reflect that as well and may cause some customer confusion and with future offering of their ever expanding library of photo editing tools now for everyone.
You can read the entire Press release HERE
I think it’s a good idea and a nice new name
Good luck Skylum!
PT
Exciting new Photo Editor from Topaz Labs and it’s Free!Topaz Labs this week launched Topaz Labs Studio a full featured editor for your photos including many preset and editable filter effects and also as a host program for all your Topaz Labs Plug-ins, existing and future. Not only is it feature packed but it’s available at the best price…Free.
It has 24 Adjustment modules, all of which are active,10 are free and fully adjustable (the other 14 are active but full adjustability, if desired, are available separately or in pacs at additional cost) Along with that are 290 Preset Effects that are adjustable to taste, you can make your own presets and also share them in the community with others and pickup some of their shared effects also.
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The following is a repost from my Business and Portfolio Website and blog. Posting it here in the hopes of farther reach
Breaking the Rules
Why you are NOT the Rebel you think you are
Not a day goes by that I don’t hear a fellow photographer proclaim: “I know the rules so I can break them” then they also add in “I’m a Rebel”. I mean, I see this so often it’s actually become an annoyance and it’s really turned into just group speak. Someone said it and then everyone just repeats it without actually thinking about what it means. Well, I have. So lets take a little trip and see, what what with this.
But first a note. This article assumes you make photographs as art. The “rules” don’t apply to other photographic genres. Photojournalism is about telling a story, Sports, about capturing the moment, Commercial, about selling the product. While they may possibly contain art, it’s not a necessity. Continue reading
ON1 Photo RAW 2017 Review
Part one: The Why
Full disclose per FTC. I am an affilate for ON1 Software
If you would like to see a quick video showing an overview of ON1 Photo RAW 2017 before proceeding, click this great video by ON1’s Dan Harlacher
I want to start this review of ON1 Photo RAW talking about… Adobe
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Topaz labs announced today two minor updates to their popular programs Adjust 5 (5.2.0) and Simplify 4 (4.2.0)
About Adjust:
With Topaz Adjust you can give your images the soul and character you envisioned in the field! Unlike our eyes, a camera lens can’t compensate for all the tonal values we see right in front of us. If you shoot something bright, you’ll lose all the details in the shadows. If you shoot something dark, the highlights will be blown out. You can try to correct contrast, details, and vibrancy yourself, but it’s difficult to make images pop like you want.
Topaz Adjust is designed to enhance three characteristics: contrast, detail, and color. Specializing in producing vivid images, Adjust uses Topaz’s adaptive exposure, adaptive saturation, and even includes our cutting edge detail enhancement algorithms to give you the secret “oomph” ingredients that make your images stand out.
About Simplify:
Topaz Simplify gives you a set of tools to create art that only you can make. Build a wide assortment of effects such as watercolors, oil paintings, cartoons, charcoal drawings, sketches, and more. Make your art uniquely personal instead of using cookie-cutter filters and achieve better results faster with specialized digital art technology.
Simplify is designed to create cool graphical effects to quickly turn your images into sketches, watercolors, and a wide range of other graphical and artistic effects. With intelligent controls for edge tracing, details, large image features, and original image enhancement, the artistic effects and styles you can achieve are endless.
Major features introduced in the latest versions of Adjust and Simplify include:
New Effects.
As always, updates for current users are free
To learn more, get free trials or buy, click the links below
Today, Macphun software introduced Luminar their new all in one photo editor. (sorry Mac OS only)
The key features are the ability to design the Workspace to how you work, Adding or subtracting Modules (filters) to show only the ones you find necessary and work with often but always having those other modules available. The other key feature, if you want to call it that, is simply…price. At $69 normal price (there are some savings I will talk about at the end of the piece) That’s pretty darn inexpensive in the world of editing software especially when you consider how much power and versatility is built into Luminar. Now I’m a big Adobe fan and have been a user of Photoshop since Photoshop 2. so that’s quite a long time. And currently a membership to Photoshop CC/Lightroom is $9.99 a month. Now for a professional like me that’s a small expense relative to the other expenses of running a business. Not everyone is a professional but what if you could get software that offers Pro level performance at a price that’s greatly affordable to people that don’t do this to earn money. That’s where Luminar comes in and very strongly. Even a Pro may find the feature set to be everything they need. Continue reading
