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Making the Split – Split Toning for the rest of us

Split Toning in Lightroom is quite simply a real-life lesson in simple complexity. The tools is five, simple sliders that together create an effect over an entire image. Split Toning is amazingly simple to use, but using the Split Toning tools effectively can be surprisingly complex. Split Toning can be easily used to quickly and [...]

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X-Equals Survival Kit

Ok listen up, this is what it takes to keep our studio, and our workflow, running smoothly and without problems. We’ve always made it clear we are an open source shop when it comes to disclosing how we do what we do, the gear we use, and the tools we can’t live without. So, we [...]

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Adobe DNG – the future is NOW

To the modern digital photographer, the Raw data from the camera is the modern day equivalent of the traditional photographer’s negatives or slides. Everything we need to create stunning final images is provided by the single simple file, regardless of its format – be it .NEF, .CRW, .CR2, .PEF; the list goes on and on. [...]

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Photo Profile – Tobin Yelland

All photos © Tobin Yelland Photography You started out shooting professionally at a very early age. How did this come about? I took a photography class  when I was 14 and had just started skateboarding as well. Skateboarding was pretty dead at the time, if I remember correctly, and there were unlimited possibilities to make [...]

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Mad Stacks Yo! – Stacking images in Lightroom

One of the biggest debates in using Lightroom revolves around the best way to organize your library. I used to have images scattered all over different drives with no format whatsoever and had tons of duplicates from shoots with different flags, colors and stars. I started to browse the internet for some guidance and found [...]

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