Photography

Leap ahead with these five quick tips for using the Urban Lightscape Photoshop plugin to correct exposure and balance lighting in your pictures. Tip #1: Know when to use the smoothness slider Placing two or more control points close together with respect to the setting of the Spread slider can trigger a sharp contrast in [...]

Looking at the promotional screenshots for Urban Lightscape, the astute, well-travelled and Vietnamese will have no trouble guessing where I’ve been most recently. As I develop some of the photos from the trip, I thought it an opportune time to share some of the ways I’m putting Urban Lightscape to use in my own workflow, [...]

Red Umbrellas on Rose Street Rose Street, between its namesake mosaics that welcome passers by at either end, is a quiet retreat behind the busy thoroughfare of Edinburgh’s Princes Street – boutique stores and character pubs in the shadow of the high street giants. I snapped the original photo for this exercise four years ago [...]