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This is the blog for More Than A Snapshot's Online Photography Classes.  In these blog posts I will give photography tips, tutorials, and show images.

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Luminar Libraries & AI Sky Enhancer are Coming!

Gary Detonnancourt

Luminar is an image editing program made by Skylum. It is easy to use and quite powerful and could possibly be used instead of Adobe’s Lightroom. Why consider using Luminar, because it’s much cheaper than Lightroom and Photoshop. The main drawback to switching to Luminar has been that there was no way to organize and rate your images. This is all about to change in December of 2018 when Skylum plans to add a Library tool to Luminar and it will be a free update for anyone that owns Luminar 2018. Use my Coupon Code “SNAPSHOT” to get $10 Off.

That’s not all, on November 1st, there will be an update to Luminar 2018 that adds AI Sky Enhancer. This filter was created for photographers who would rather focus on creating photos, and have neither the time or inclination to spend hours correcting their images.

By moving a single slider you can add depth, definition, and detail to the sky without exposing unwanted artifacts or affecting any other aspect of the image.

No one wants boring skies in their photos, and restoring and improving the sky is one of the most important things while creating a masterpiece. We’ve done our best to make this process as simple as it can be -  the new AI Sky Enhancer creates no halos, automatically detects the edges of the sky and recognizes the sky even inside other objects such as bridges.

Please click here to see all of the details and examples of these updates.

Tips for Adding Photos to Lightroom's Quick Collections

Gary Detonnancourt

3 Ways to Set a White and Black Point in Lightroom CC

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How to Use the Match Total Exposure Settings Function in Lightroom CC

Gary Detonnancourt

When you review a series of images in Lightroom you may notices that sometimes images taken just seconds apart from each other have different exposures.  This can be due to using automatic or semi-automatic shooting modes in your camera because the camera meters each shot individually and producing slightly different exposures.  One fix for this would be to shoot in manual mode and simply make sure you are starting with a good exposure, once set, it will not change unless you change it.  However, if you encounter this problem, Lightroom provides a simple solution for a post processing fix.  Check out the video below to find out how.

 

How to Use the Reference View in Lightroom CC 2015.8

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Happy Thanksgiving & Black Friday Sale

Gary Detonnancourt

Happy Thanksgiving!  I wanted to kick off my Black Friday sale off early, all of my online courses are now on sale for $19.99.  This sale will only last through cyber Monday so head on over to my store now. 

Don't get left behind.

Click this link to check out my online courses.  http://www.morethanasnapshot.com/shop/

Canon's DPP 4 Vs. Lightroom CC 2015 for Color

Gary Detonnancourt

I've heard that Canon's DPP 4, while not a great image editing program, may produce better colors than Lightroom for photographers that shoot and process raw images, so I decided to test this out for myself.  In these test images I tried to do as little in each program as possible, mostly picking the color profile, cropping, noise reduction and sharpening.

Lightroom CC

DPP 4

DPP 4

Lightroom CC

DPP 4

I think in most cases the colors are very similar.  Sometimes the colors look the same as in the deer image and sometimes there was a slight difference as in the blue color of the hawk image.  DPP did seem to have stronger sharpening and the auto lighting optimizer tool seems to work well.  Overall, I'm sure its worth the extra effort to use both DPP and Lightroom.  Let me know what you think in the comments below.

In the images below I did more post processing to bring them closer to finished images.

Lightroom

DPP 4

At first I liked the green background from DPP better but it may just be brighter.

Lightroom

DPP 4 - To be fair I did more work on this image.