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ACR Part 7 – Lens Corrections

CSD Images — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:00:59 +0000

It’s a fact of life that all lenses are imperfect; it’s the nature of lens design and physics that dictate this rather than any design flaws inherent in the lenses themselves. Whilst professional and high end lenses minimise the imperfections they will employ a wide variety of techniques to offset these weaknesses such as lens

Fiat Lux – How to approach lighting a scene.

CSD Images — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:45 +0000

There is little difference between lighting a studio to an outdoor location. The only difference is that you’ve got ambient light to contend with. Arguably you’ll learn more about lighting a subject working outdoors than you will in the controlled environment of a studio, but the downside is the amount of kit you may need

ACR Part 6 – Split Toning

CSD Images — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:00:56 +0000

Split toning tab is a process where you divide an image in to two halves and then apply a colour to each of those sections. It’s a great way to produce creative effects when you apply colour theory such as blending blue shadows with yellow highlights resulting in colour vibrancy. In essence this is a

ACR Part 5 – The HSL Tab

CSD Images — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:00:04 +0000

These three tabs within the RAW interface offer a set of tools that really allows you to be creative and play with colour. It utilises the power of the HSL colour mode to allow you move and adjust colours throughout the image. Whilst it can do colour correction it’s still best to do this in

ACR Part 4 – Detail Panel – Sharpening and Noise Reduction

Blueprint — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:54 +0000

This is probably one of the most complex and yet easiest tabs to understand in ACR. Within this tab we can perform minor miracles with slightly out of focus images and create usable high ISO images with the new noise reduction settings found in ACR 6. The changes means that noise reduction is now a