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Seagate's premium brand LaCie has announced two new products ahead of CES in Las Vegas this week, both specifically focused and tailored to address needs in the creative professional community: the LaCie Mobile Drive and the LaCie Mobile SSD. Featuring up to 5TB of storage capacity, the Mobile Drive is an extremely...

 

 

Sun rays are one of the neatest sights in landscape photography. However, you need numerous factors to work in your favor, including the direction of light and atmospheric conditions. Fortunately, you can add or enhance sun rays using post-processing software. In Luminar 3, you can quickly and easily add...

 

 

In ON1 Photo RAW 2019, you can use luminosity masking to target specific areas of an image based on the luminosity (or brightness) values of different areas of the photo. For example, you can target the bright areas of an image and then selectively edit them without needing to manually make complex selections.

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Using only a single adjustment layer and one blend mode, you can get advanced control over color toning your photos in Adobe Photoshop. How? Photographer and educator Blake Rudis of f64 Academy shows us how in his new video below.

If you'd like to follow along and download Rudis's Photoshop actions for this...

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When it comes to entry-level DSLR cameras, sweeping changes are quite rare. The Nikon D3500 is no exception. In many ways, it's very similar to the Nikon D3400, which was itself similar to the Nikon D3300. With that said, the D3500 has received a revision to its...

 

 

In December, Skylum Software released the newest version of their popular photo editing app, Luminar. The latest release includes the much-anticipated Libraries feature, which allows photographers to organize and browse all of their images.

In a new video, Skylum evangelist and co-director of their education,...

 

 

This past fall, Adobe held their annual Adobe MAX conference. During the conference, they hosted numerous education Creative Sessions, including one with photographer Chris Orwig. The topic of Orwig's talk was about creating and capturing better portraits. Fortunately for us, the session was recorded and Adobe has...

 

 

Well, well, well, what do we have here? It appears, based on this just-released teaser video, that the folks over at Olympus are getting ready to announce a brand new camera. Happy days, Micro Four Thirds fans!

Being just a teaser video, the details are obviously a little scarce, other than the date for the...

 

 

When lighting a portrait, there are typically opportunities to either diffuse light to make it larger and softer or to reflect light back onto your subject to fill in shadows. Which technique is better? In the latest episode of Adorama's OnSet, photographer Daniel Norton investigates this question.

In the video...

 

 

In software like Lightroom and Photoshop, you can quickly add contrast to an image by using a simple slider. However, this method is sometimes too coarse and applied too broadly to bring out the best in your photography. In the video below, Aaron Nace with Phlearn shows off an easy method for dodge and burning in...

 

 

It looks like an alien world from a Ray Bradbury novel. Or perhaps an artist interpretation of the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan. Whatever it looks like, it doesn't look much like a typical photograph of a desert landscape in North America.

And that's just part of the haunting beauty of the image below...

 

 

Our final Firmware Friday roundup of 2018 is a biggie, bringing with it news of close to two dozen different camera updates for models from Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Sigma and Sony. And as if that wasn't plenty, we've also uncovered two movie camera updates from Sony, as well as a lens and software update...

 

 

One of the most powerful techniques for retouching skin in Adobe Photoshop is frequency separation. Photographer and educator Mark Wallace doesn’t want to stop there with an editing tutorial, but rather walks us through the entire process, from capture to final editing, in the newest episode of Adorama's Exploring...

 

 

In his latest video, join landscape photographer Nigel Danson as he travels to Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands to photograph an iconic waterfall and produce a black and white print.

In the video below, Danson runs us through various compositions and discusses his thought process, including an excellent...

 

 

Photographer Adam Karnacz headed out to the seascape in Northumberland with his father in hopes of capturing a lovely sunset. He headed out with any specific plan or goals, but just wanted to enjoy a nice day out. Planning ahead is great, but there are certainly times when it's worth just heading out with your...

 

 

Nature and wildlife photographer Morten Hilmer spends a lot of his time out in the wilderness, in adverse conditions, photographing animals and landscapes. This means that his gear needs to be able to capture a lot of detail for a landscape, but also be able to shoot fast and capture action for when he is...

 

 

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to color tone any image in under five minutes? Now you can with the help of Aaron Nace over at Phlearn. This process, outlined in the video below, utilizes levels adjustments layers in Adobe Photoshop.

Before we get started, it's important to note that this process is completely...

 

 

While most photographers these days shoot with digital cameras exclusively, there are still many who have stuck with film or perhaps are digital photographers who want to give analog photography a try. This weekend, we have a neat video from The Slanted Lens' Jay P. Morgan -- a very accomplished digital...

 

 

In the video below, photographer Attilio Ruffo covers a wide range of topics, including vision and creativity in landscape photography. Further, he shares some viewer edits of one of his recent images and also shows how he captured and edited the photo himself.

Firstly, vision and creativity in landscape...