Category: Post Production

We all love the web for its ability to let you communicate with other people in various ways. That’s why Instagram’s so famous today. It’s our way to share visual stories of our lives with people around us. Instagram’s so popular not just because of the sharing option, but because of a set of gorgeous filters you can apply to your images before uploading.

I have already covered here how to create Amaro and Mayfair Instagram filters in Photoshop.

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With over 100 million users worldwide on both iOS and Android devices, Instagram’s success as a mobile platform and social network is clear to see. These days, it has an expanded web presence, so there are more opportunities than ever to show off your photography skills. Instagram’s 20 filters that fit a handy app are a great playground for photographers to have fun with their images.

If you want to create high-quality, post-edited images, you should use some editing software for it, not a mobile app. For instance, you can use Photoshop to recreate some Instagram filters.

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Photo editing has never been so easy as it is these days. The web offers you tons of Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions to add some cool effects to your images by pressing just one button! Lightroom presets are a fantastic tool that can help to automate your workflow and to add creativity to your photo library, no matter if you’re a newbie or experienced professional.

If you decide to play around with Lightroom presets, however, you don’t feel like spending hundreds of dollars purchasing them or dozens of hours developing them. I’d like to offer you a quick and simple solution – check out our $9.99 Photodoto Lightroom presets that are worth every cent you spend on them!

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A cinemagraph is “more than a photo, but not quite a video.” Or at least that’s how Supermodel Coco Rocha summed them up.

Technically, a cinemagraph is just a GIF or a Graphics Interchange Format. Basically, a short, animated file that is everywhere online these days. You’ve probably seen them on Tumblr, Reddit or 4Chan. Maybe you even remember them when they were blowing up on Myspace (or is that just this guy :).

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Post-processing can be a great tool to improve your photography, whether you do it step-by-step, use Photoshop actions, Lightroom presets or any other product (or app!) for enhancing your images.

Retouching a photo is the last step in creating a good photo, and it adds that last touch of the artist.

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Few hobbies in the United States have become more popular in recent years than photography, with iStockPhoto and KRC Research suggesting that two in five Americans pursue the art of taking snapshots for fun.

Knowing the basics of a DSLR camera or which interchangeable lens you need can be helpful with pure photography, but with excellent-quality smartphone photos and free or affordable image-editing software, anyone can be an artistic photographer. If you want to get into the photography game, but do not know the difference between exposure and aperture, you should at least know about the best photo-editing tools available online for a digital shot.

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Adobe’s announcement of their decision to switch to a subscription-only model had sparked off hot debates on whether they were justified in making this move. The Internet was flooded with concerns expressed by users of Adobe software – especially Photoshop – on whether they could afford to continue using the software.

Doing so will mean they would have already paid for the licenses and now, to continue using those licenses, they will have to keep paying a monthly amount. Critics feel this works out to be a costly affair, besides being an unfair decision.

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Post processing is an important part of photography. No matter how good you are at photography, your commercial success depends entirely on your final product. Using Adobe Lightroom and other post processing software, you can transform your photograph into a truly remarkable commercial success.

Stock Photography is one of the most proficient ways of earning money for photographers but it has become very difficult for newbies to even pass the initial quality control test for different stock agencies. This tutorial is simply about overcoming that obstacle by editing your photographs in such a way as to make those appealing both for the agencies and the clients.

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