Professional Grade Image Sharpening

Professional Grade Image Sharpening for Archive, Print & Web – my latest training video collection.

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View the overview page on my download store HERE

Over 11 hours of video training, spread across 58 videos…well, I told you it was going to be big!

And believe me, I could have made it even bigger, because there is FAR MORE to image sharpening than 99% of photographers think.

And you don’t need ANY stupid sharpener plugins – or noise reductions ones come to that.  Because Photoshop does it ALL anyway, and is far more customizable and controllable than any plugin could hope to be.

So don’t waste your money any more – spend it instead, on some decent training to show you how to do the job properly in the first place!

You won’t find a lot of these methods anywhere else on the internet – free or paid for – because ‘teachers cannot teach what they don’t know’ – and I know more than most!

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As you can see from the list of lessons above, I cover more than just ‘plain old sharpening’.

Traditionally, image sharpening produces artifacts – usually white and black halos – if it’s over done. And image sharpening emphasizes ‘noise’ in areas of shadow and other low frequency detail, when it’s applied to an image in the ‘traditional’, often taught, blanket manner.

Why sharpen what isn’t in focus – to do so is madness, because all you do is sharpen the noise, and cause more artifacts!

Maximum sharpening should only be applied to detail in the image that is ‘fully in focus’.

So, as ‘focus sharpness’ falls off, so to should the level of applied sharpening.  That way, noise and other artifacts CAN NOT build up in an image.

And the same can be said for noise reduction, but ‘in reverse’.

So image sharpening needs to be applied in a differential manor – and that’s what this training is all about.

Using a brush in Lightroom etc to ‘brush in’ some sort of differential sharpening is NOT a good idea, because it’s imprecise, and something of a fools task.

Why do I say that? Simple……. Because the ‘differential factor bit’ is contained within the image itself – and it’s just sitting there on your computer screen WAITING for you to get stuck in and use it.

But, like everything else in modern digital photography, the knowledge and skill to do so has somehow been lost in the last 12 to 15 years, and the internet is full of ‘teachers’ who have never had these skills in the first place – hence they can’t teach ’em!

However, everyone who buys this training of mine WILL have those skills by the end of the course.

It’s been a real hard slog to produce these videos.  Recording the lessons is easy – it’s the editing and video call-outs that take a lot of time.  And I’ve edited all the audio in Audacity to remove breath sounds and background noise – many thanks to Curtis Judd for putting those great lessons on YouTube!

The price is £59.99. So right now, that’s over 11 hours of training for less than £5.50 per hour – that’s way cheaper than a 1to1, or even a workshop day with a crowd of other people!

So head off over to my download store and buy it, because what you’ll learn will improve your image processing, whether it’s for big prints or just jpegs on the web – guaranteed – just click here!

Become a patron from as little as $1 per month, and help me produce more free content.

Patrons gain access to a variety of FREE rewards, discounts and bonuses.

 

Lumenzia for Wildlife

The Lumenzia Photoshop extension

Yet more on the usefulness of the Lumenzia Photoshop extension, the short cut to great looking images of all types and styles.

I had an email from client and blog follower David Sparks after my last post about this useful mighty Photoshop tool.

He sent these before and after rail shots:

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Before adding Lumenzia. Click for larger view.

After adding Lumenzia

After adding Lumenzia. Click for larger view.

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Comparison overlay – see how the left side of the image has that extra presence – and that’s just with the click of a couple of buttons in the Lumenzia GUI. Click to view larger.

Here is what David had to say in his email:

Andy, here is a before and after.  Processing was much, much faster than usual, using Lumenzia.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention….I’m working my way through your Image Processing in LR4 & Photoshop + LR5 bundle and enjoying it very much.

And as my friend and blog follower Frank Etchells put it:

Excellent recommendation this Andy. Bought it first time from your previous posting… at just over £27 it’s marvellous :)

What gets me puzzled is the fact that these Lumenzia posts have had over 500 separate page views in the last few days but less then 3% of you have bought it – WTF are you guys waiting for…

Get it BOUGHT – NOW – HERE

UPDATE: Greg Benz (the plugin author) has launched a comprehensive Lumenzia training course – see my post here for more information.

Become a patron from as little as $1 per month, and help me produce more free content.

Patrons gain access to a variety of FREE rewards, discounts and bonuses.

Lightroom Training – The Library Module

Lightroom training – the Lightroom 5 Library Module.

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A SHAMELESS plug I know – but I’ve got to eat you know!

 

I’ve just finished my latest training title on Lightroom 5 all about “The Library Module”.

The sad thing is that most Lightroom users think of the library module as BORING because they just want to ‘get in there’ and start wanging sliders around in the Develop Module.

 

And guess what – even I find it tedious!

 

But mastery of the Library Module in Lightroom 5 will make the more captivating parts of Lightroom a far more enjoyable experience, both in terms of productivity, speed and efficiency.

 

This training title is NOT a total ‘drill-down’ into the minutia of every detail – now that WOULD be boring!

But I’ve ‘cherry-picked’ everything that I feel the average Lightroom user needs to know and understand in order to get the best from their general Lightroom experience.

 

Most of the topics are covered in multiple lessons and include:

  • Finding your way around the Lightroom GUI
  • The Lightroom Catalog – file location
  • Catalog Backup
  • Merging Catalogs
  • Creating New Catalogs from existing ones
  • Migrating catalogs from one hard drive to another
  • Library Module Previews – there’s far more to previews than you think!
  • Smart Previews
  • 1 to 1 previews
  • Metadata Attributes
  • Saving Metadata to XMP (saving metadata to the RAW file)
  • Saved Metadata Conflicts & Update Warnings
  • Collections
  • Smart Collections
  • Quick & Target Collections
  • Spray Can
  • Cell & Thumbnail Iconography
  • Key Wording & IPTC Data
  • The Searchable Image database
  • Camera Profiles & Import presets

 

37 videos – approx: 235 minutes running time.

 

Ever wondered what all those funny little icons on your thumbnails – especially the scary looking ones in the top right corner of cells mean?  Wonder no more!

Is your computer running slowly because your Lightroom catalog is in the wrong place?

Can’t find your images in the Lightroom catalog?

My Lightroom training videos will show you how to avoid these and many other problems.

 

Learn how to setup Lightroom so this it causes minimum impact on your computer system, and speeds your way through to the more interesting bits!

 

And these Lightroom training video lessons are all iPad3/4 compliant so you can load them directly to your iPad via iTunes without converting them first.

 

Available for instant download from my new store – HERE

Lightroom Tutorials #2

 

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Image Processing in Lightroom & Photoshop

 

In this Lightroom tutorial preview I take a close look at the newly evolved Clone/Heal tool and dust spot removal in Lightroom 5.

This newly improved tool is simple to use and highly effective – a vast improvement over the great tool that it was already in Lightroom 4.

 

Lightroom Tutorials  Sample Video Link below: Video will open in a new window

 

https://vimeo.com/64399887

 

This 4 disc Lightroom Tutorials DVD set is available from my website at http://wildlifeinpixels.net/dvd.html