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How to Improve Your Photos with Lightroom’s Transform Tool

by Loaded Landscapes | Oct 9, 2017 | Post Processing | 0

Learn all about the transform tool and how you can use it to improve your photos.

How to Easily Create a Tilt Shift Effect in Photoshop

by Loaded Landscapes | Jul 17, 2017 | Post Processing | 0

In this video tutorial, Simon Plant shows how you can replicate a tilt shift effect very easily in...

How to Create Realistic HDR Effects in Adobe Lightroom

by Loaded Landscapes | Apr 10, 2017 | Post Processing | 0

HDR effects don’t have to be extreme or intense. Lightroom makes it possible, and even pretty easy, to get to use HDR effectively and still have a realistic-looking image.

How to Use Photoshop to Replace a Color in Your Photos

by Loaded Landscapes | Mar 14, 2016 | Post Processing | 0

In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how you can easily use Photoshop to replace a color in a photo to help control the focal point that draws the viewer’s eye. You can use this technique to draw attention to a particular element in the photo, or to change the color of an element so it does not attract as much attention.

Adding Selective Image Weight to Landscape Photographs in Lightroom

by Loaded Landscapes | Jan 18, 2016 | Post Processing | 0

In this video Simon Plant shows how to use selective adjustments in Lightroom to adjust the image weight and direct the viewer’s attention within the photo.

How to Quickly Fix and Replace a Bland Sky in Photoshop

by Loaded Landscapes | Oct 26, 2015 | Post Processing | 0

With many landscape and nature photos you may want to replace the sky in order to get a more striking photo. In this video Simon Plant shows an easy way to blend a new sky without getting into complicated masking and selections.

How to Color Grade Landscape Photos in Lightroom

by Loaded Landscapes | Sep 7, 2015 | Post Processing | 0

Many times it is the small tweaks and subtle enhancements in post processing that can take your landscape and nature photos from good to great. In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how you can use Lightroom’s tools for color grading images. He shows how to use split toning, while explaining the different settings and how they work, as well as how to color grade with tone curves.

How to Use Lightroom’s Radial Filter to Enhance Your Photos

by Loaded Landscapes | Jul 27, 2015 | Post Processing | 0

While it does not provide as many options for advanced selections and photo manipulations as Photoshop, Lightroom has a number of tools that allow you to do the majority of your post processing without needing to open Photoshop. Lightroom 5 introduced the radial filter, and there were some small enhancements made to it in Lightroom 6/CC. The radial filter can be used to make selective adjustments quite easily for a wide variety of different purposes. In this video Simon Plant provides an introduction to the radial filter and shows how it can be used to improve a sample photo. If you are not very familiar with the radial filter or if you rarely use it with your photos, this is a video that may be of great help to you.

New Features in Lightroom 6: HDR Merge and Panorama Merge

by Loaded Landscapes | May 4, 2015 | Post Processing | 0

Lightroom 6 (also known as Lightroom CC) was released a few weeks ago and among the most significant and popular new features, especially for landscape and nature photographers, are the HDR merge and panorama merge which allow you to now create HDR images and panoramas without leaving Lightroom. In this video Simon Plant walks through the process of using each of these new features. They are both fairly easy to use and can speed up your editing process by saving you from needed to leave Lightroom to create HDR and panoramic images.

How to Retouch Areas of Gradient Skies in Photoshop

by Loaded Landscapes | Apr 20, 2015 | Post Processing | 0

There will be situations when you need or want to remove a particular object from a photo, and...

How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

by Loaded Landscapes | Apr 16, 2015 | Post Processing | 2

Dodging and burning can help to improve your landscape photos by selectively darkening and lightening specific areas of the photo. There are a few different ways that you can dodge and burn in Photoshop, and in this video tutorial you’ll see a quick and easy way to do it.