Allyn Edmonds

digital workflow: preserve those captures | pro photo life

Shooting great photographs means little if you don’t handle your files properly. I’d like to share the outline of my digital workflow, one refined over the past few years at the photo studio. Workflow is a process that takes time and experience to implement and understand. We’ll be taking it a step at a time. [...]

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Muted Colours and other fashionable looks.

For those abounding on Flickr and other similar sites, here’s a few looks that are currently popular and easy to create with Lightroom: Let’s start with our base photo: Read It All: LightroomNews » Blog Archive » Muted Colours and other fashionable looks.

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Beyond Normal: Multiply and Screen Blending Mode

Normally, layers in an image are merged using a blending mode appropriately known as “Normal.” But learning what other blending modes do can go a long way towards improving your Photoshop skills. This week we’ll go beyond Normal and introduce Multiply and Screen blending modes. Read It All: Beyond Normal: Multiply and Screen Blending Mode - [...]

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Camera Raw CS3: Highlight Recovery and Fill Light

Having stayed relatively the same for the last couple of releases, Camera Raw users had likely grown used to the standard Exposure, Shadows, Brightness and Contrast sliders to control lighting when adjusting raw images. As of Photoshop CS3 though, Shadows has been renamed to Blacks, and Adobe has added two new sliders labeled Recovery and [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial Podcast #46: The Synchronize Command

Amidst all the attention for the new 1.3 update, we forgot to post a link to another new Lightroom video tutorial by George Jardine. This one offers some more great tips on working with the Library module and some of the less well-know aspects of photo synching behavior in Lightroom. Listen: LightroomNews » Blog Archive » [...]

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