Editing photos

The new version of great photo organizer and editor Adobe Lightroom 3 still lacks geotagging support. It should be able to work with images already containing GPS information, but you do not have any chance how to set them. But there is one third party and free solution at least: special plugin for Lightroom 3 with geotagging features.

Black and white photography always had a certain je ne sais quoi, it speaks differently to the viewer – the lack of colors is compensated by the depth of the subject and by the way shadows and light build the entire image. In other words, if color photography is easily valued through its… colors, with black and white images it is a lot harder to send out the right message – one has to be a lot careful with composition, subject positioning, lightning and so on.

With all the crazy apps nowadays, enhancing your photos seems like the easiest thing ever – I mean, if even typical applications such as Picasa can help you bring out the color in your eyes and cheeks and make your vacation photographs sparkle, why do we need to complicate our lives with complicated editing software? This particular question was asked around Adobe Labs as well, and their answer to this problem was – Adobe Lightroom. It’s obviously a lot easier to use than Adobe Photoshop (if you’ve tried it, you know exactly what I mean), not to mention that it is designed to do exactly what a non-commissioned photographer needs – enhance their photos using some rather cool tricks.

One click photo editing feature is very popular by the beginners. Most of the photo editors offers this functionality. However there could be very different results when using one click editing in several applications. Most of us are able to use manual editing and beautify our photos with more or less advanced techniques. But when we are in hurry, we all love one lick editing I think. Don’t you?

From time to time you have to do collages or some website graphic. In these cases you may find useful or needed to remove the background from the source photos. You don’t have to use Photoshop or another graphic editor with its layers, curves, selection tools or eraser. Just use a simple freeware tool and remove the background with a few mouse turns.

It is no secret that buying gifts is sometimes hard. Occasionally, you get that gift recipient who seems like they already have everything. You could spend hours browsing online or local stores only to come up empty handed. During that time, you will be overwhelmed with stress. If you are in this position right now, stop! The perfect gift is a photo gift. Photograph gifts are ideal for close friends, family members, or someone you do not know all that well (like a school bush driver, teacher or new coworker).

The Halloween is coming up and you should start thinking about some cool effects for your or your friends photos. There is many tutorials about how to create Halloween photo effects using common graphic editors like Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. However none of them offers special graphic tools for creating Halloween photos like the online photo editor Picnik does. Lets come to look how you can change your photos to get a Halloween atmosphere.

Post-processing has reached a new era ever since people have learned to shoot their pictures in RAW. Before I wrote this article I took some time to think whether it would be a good idea to show you the miracles of RAW or whether it would be more interested to show the good Lightroom can do to a mere JPG image. Even if this particular article will not be a step-by-step tutorial I will make sure no part (of the article) of it is left unexplained. I used the new version of Adobe Lightroom, more precisely Adobe Lightroom 2.3

There is a lot of tutorials describing how to use the image editors to adjust the colors of your photos. Many editors and organizer including my favorite Windows Live Photogallery are able to do it with just one click. If you have the newest Adobe Photoshop CS4, I highly recommend to try its new function Vibrance Adjustment.

Old photographs are precious and prematurely age if stored incorrectly, or if your priceless treasures are exposed to moisture and careless handling. The last thing you want is to lose your precious memories of years and, even, generations long past. Here we give you advice about how to clean old photos that show signs of early deterioration.