Photography for the Serious Amateur
Photography for the Serious Amateur
Adobe is one of the largest software companies around today. Learn about the various Adobe tools being used for image processing and retouching.
In this section, you’ll find all the articles that we’ve written about various Adobe tools, like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Adobe Bridge, and more…
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Recently while editing some images in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR), I noticed an additional, new, “.acr” sidecar file. In the past, I’ve written about the .XMP files that are created by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera RAW when…
PSD files are image files that are created by Adobe Photoshop. They’re files that are fully compatible with all of Adobe Photoshop’s many features like pixel layers, vector layers, smart objects, masks, vector objects, as well as all the blending,…
If you use Affinity Photo for image editing, your work is most likely saved in files with the .afphoto extension. Saving files in Affinity Photo’s proprietary (.afphoto) file extension enables you to use the software’s various non-destructive editing features, text…
Lightroom Classic can be slow at times. When you’re making adjustments, or when previewing images, there is often a lag before the image is previewed. This is an indication that Lightroom is not working as fast as it can be,…
Affinity v3 is surprisingly good at handling Photoshop PSD files. While there are some instances where there are no issues with files, there are also instances where the files don’t work as intended – though this is rarer. Let’s look…
Have we grown complacent with Adobe's tools? Here we explore Capture One Pro and Affinity Photo as potential replacements to Photoshop and Lightroom. They can be replaced.
If you’re a heavy Photoshop user, you probably already have at least 32GB of RAM on your computer. Any further speed gains would have to involve faster data delivery to your processor and RAM for processing. Having multiple SSDs transferring…
This is the one setting that I always turn on as soon as I install Lightroom Classic (LrC) on any computer: Automatically Write Changes into XMP. This setting makes Lightroom Classic start saving small .xmp sidecar files next to your…
A while ago, Brian Auer posted a project on his blog where he invited people to use a photograph that he would supply and process it in Photoshop (or any other image editing software). The idea was to see how…
Among the greatest and most popular image editing software tools ever made, Adobe Photoshop has moved from being a name, to being a verb. “That’s Photoshopped” is a phrase that we’ve all heard, that refers to an image that is…