Stills, retouching and real-time 3D. Writes about color management, asset pipelines and getting heavy visual work into a browser.
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Panorama stitching is the process of combining a series of overlapping photographs into a single image that is wider, taller or simply higher in resolution than...
Sky replacement means swapping a dull, gray or blown-out sky for a different sky image, then adjusting the foreground so the light in the scene agrees with the...
Lightroom masking is the set of local adjustment tools in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw that let you change one part of a photo without touching the rest. It i...
Exporting images for the web is the last step between a finished edit and what a visitor actually sees, and it is the step most often left to defaults. The expo...
Pixels, ppi and dpi are three different measurements that get used as if they were one word: "resolution." Pixel dimensions are the actual width and height of a...
Frequency separation is a retouching technique that splits a photograph into two layers: a low-frequency layer that carries broad color and tonal transitions, a...
Liquify and body reshaping covers every retouching move that physically relocates pixels rather than recoloring or replacing them: smoothing a bunched sleeve, s...
A look-up table, or LUT, is a small file that tells software how to turn every input color into an output color. Applied to a photograph, it gives the image a p...
Every time an image changes size, software has to invent pixels. Shrink a 6,000-pixel-wide product shot to 1,200 pixels and four out of every five columns of da...
Getting product shadows and reflections right is what separates a catalog that looks photographed from one that looks assembled. When a product is cut out of it...
Every image a business publishes carries two kinds of ownership signal, whether anyone planned it or not. The first is visible: a logo, a name or a translucent...
Virtual staging means adding furniture, rugs, art and decor to photographs of empty rooms by digital means, mostly for real estate sales and rental listings. Th...
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