Archive for November, 2008

Local adjustment brush is a great tool in Lightroom 2 that makes photographers use Photoshop less frequently. Earlier you could make only global changes on your photos that impacted the whole area of the picture. Now it got local.
The very same – any more – effects can be achieved with layer masks in Photoshop. However, this tool is so easy and intuitive to use in Lightroom that sometimes I have to resist using it.
I show below how it works.

Look at the pic on the right. The photo is dominated by the model’s eyes and smile and the eye really attracts the attention. However, we could be kind to our model just making her wrinkles just a bit less visible.

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Encouraged by the news about the Japanese version of David Hobby’s Lighting 101, I started to collect people for the Hungarian translation on my other blog here.

If you are Hungarian or just speak our language and would like to participate in this effort, you might join us.

1001 Noisy Cameras runs a project about popularity of the newsreaders people use to access our blogs.
Participation is easy: just send your numbers in an email. I’ve just done it.

I show the newsreader statistics of this blog in a pie chart format directly from Feedburner: