3 Things to Know about Working in Adobe Bridge

Do you open photos direct into Photoshop or do you use Adobe Bridge? If you don’t use Bridge, there are some good reasons for changing your habits.

You may not realize it but some of how Camera Raw behaves depends on whether you open an image from Bridge or from Photoshop. Here’s how:

Freeze Photoshop or not?

Open a Raw image in Photoshop and it opens, of course, in Camera Raw. But look at the screen – Photoshop is open but ..read more

Leica X1 Digital Camera Review

Leica X1 Digital Camera Review

Still remember the Leica X1 that we mentioned in September 2009? PhotographyBLOG has a short review of this 12.2-megapixel compact digital camera. As a reminder, the Leica X1 comes equipped with a 36mm fixed lens and a 2.7-inch LCD screen. The camera uses an APS-C sized (23.6mm x 15.8mm) CMOS sensor with a 3:2 aspect ratio. The image-stabilized Leica Elmarit 24mm f/2.8 lens provides a focal length of 36mm in 35mm terms. Additional features include a ..read more

Round Tripping with Lightroom

One of the most confusing things for new Lightroom users is understanding how documents get round tripped from Lightroom to Photoshop and back.

Step 1

To start, open Lightroom with the image displayed in the Develop, Library, Slideshow or Web modules. Right click the image and choose Edit In > Adobe Photoshop.

If you chose a raw file then the image is sent direct to Photoshop.

Step 2

If you chose a jpg or tiff file, then other options are available. You can ..read more

Smart Object Pipeline [Book Review]

Revolutionary? Tactics? Photoshop?

Dem’s fighting words and author Ted Dillard pulls no punches when he sets out to tech “How to process the ‘Digital Latent Image ….’”

This is the first comprehensive book about Smart Objects in Photoshop and it promises to change how you work with RAW files. I takes the reader through the foundations: the RAW file, its processing, layers and masks, explaining the techniques and strategies to use. Dillard’s attitude is to build an image “rather than chip away ..read more

Hasselblad H4D-40 specs

Hasselblad H4D-40 specs

Focus-Numerique published some Hasselblad H4D-40 specs (Google translation):

Sensor Resolution: 40.1 Megapixel (5477 × 7302 pixels) in size 3 / 4

Sensor dimensions: 33.1 x 44.2 mm

Pixel size: 6.0 ?m

Image Size: Shooting RAW 3FR, compressed from 54 MB on average. TIFF 8bit: 120 MB

Raw File Format (RAW): Hasselblad 3FR lossless compressed

Fashion Shooting: Single Shot

Definition of color: 16 bits

ISO Range: ISO 100, 200, 400 and 800

2 storage options: CF card type U-DMA (eg. SanDisk Extreme Pro) or cable connection to a Mac ..read more

Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom

A Guest Post by Pye of SLRLounge.com.

Introduction

If you have been anywhere near the photography world in the past couple years, I am sure you have heard of HDR by now as there have been countless tutorials floating around on how to create HDR images using 3 bracketed exposures in programs like Photomatix and Photoshop. However what if you don’t have your tripod or if you are shooting a scene with moving subjects, yet you still want to create an HDR ..read more

Monthly Critique And Edit

Copyright Peter West Carey

It’s time to offer up another photo for your critique and edits.  This month’s photo will have some variety, I’m sure.  The finished product in this case ended up being a panoramic photo (above, click for original size), but there are many options for your cropping pleasures with the original file, found here(Warning: 12MB download).  The original is a Canon RAW file from a 5D (.cr2) and should be openable in most versions of photo editing ..read more