How to Engage Your Viewers Attention Using Lightroom Masks

A much better method that using a vignette

Better than Nik Colour Effects Darken / Lighten Centre filter

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Create Punchy Black & White Images

With just a few clicks using these film simulation pre-sets

And at the end of the video I’ll tell you how you can download the pre-sets for free

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How to Create that Post Apocalypse Look

At the moment, we’re in lockdown and we’re allowed to go out once a day for a piece of exercise. So, I went out on Tuesday, which was the first day we were under lockdown, for a walk. And, as ever, my camera goes with me everywhere. And my idea was to photograph empty streets, no people around, shuttered up shops, and that sort of thing.

When I got home, I decided I wanted to post-process them to give them that sort of post apocalyptic look, that sort of grungy, dirty type of look that is appropriate for the present situation. And I thought I’d just share with you how I went about that.

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Coronavirus & How To Keep Your Photography Fresh

With many countries recommending social distancing or not going out, what can we do during this testing time to keep out photography fresh?

Noise Reduction in Lightroom & Photoshop – Made Simple

Today, I was going to be talking to you about automating noise reduction in Lightroom, but then it occurred to me that maybe some of you aren’t fully familiar with Lightroom’s noise reduction tools. So I thought I’d make a video on how to do noise reduction, and then we’ll come back to the automation of that in another video. I’m going to show you in Lightroom, but it also works in Photoshop. It’s exactly the same process. 

Awesome Black and White Images in Lightroom in Just a Few Clicks

Now if you, like me, came from the dark room age and grew up with black and white film, then today’s top tip is going to be right up your street. Today I’m going to be talking about how to create great black and white images in Lightroom with just a few clicks. And stay to the end, because I’m going to be giving away my black & white film simulation presets for free.