One of the keys to accurate color in the digital age is white balance - both in the camera and in the processing this is perhaps the most important tool we work with to assure consistent and accurate colors, especially...

I wasn't really meaning to post another article on white balance this week, but I had a similar experience to the one David Miller related in his posting, just two days ago. On a trip to the Rayong Aquarium (located...

Last week a few readers said it would be nice to see a few examples of Chromatic Aberration and how it was removed. I didn't include any with the last post because chromatic aberration is different in every image. But...

I have been to Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia many times over the last three decades but it has been close to ten years since my last visit and I had expected a lot of changes. To my very pleasant surprise...

While in Barcelona a few weeks ago and visiting Antoni Gaudí's Casa Batlló, I found myself taking pictures in a room with a very interesting balance of sunlight and tungsten light sources. In most situations, setting proper white balance means...

Chromatic Aberration is one of those topics that rarely gets discussed but is a huge concern when processing digital images. Chromatic Aberration is caused by a differing refractive index for each wavelength of light - hence red refracts at a...

In Lightroom, as most of us know there are no color spaces to choose until you export an image. I'd like to demystify exactly what is going on in Lightroom and how it deals with color spaces. First, lets talk...

Last week I was taken to task by a reader because of a statement I made about switching to Photoshop CS3 Extended because of it's advanced High Dynamic Range capability. Basically the question was, why should I spend another US...

In my most recent Newsletter - sent out just a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about digital and color. Mostly the article spoke about how my sense of color has changed in the last few years, since...

As artists, we all have a perfect right to re-interpret the world to match our fondest dreams or wildest ideas...as long as we don't misrepresent the final result as the truth (my opinion, anyway). Lightroom's amazing adjustment tools can make...

One of the tricks I learned very early on when I started shooting digital was to use custom white balance settings while shooting. Every DSLR that I know of will let you set a "Custom" or "Preset" white balance. How...

The Split Toning tool in the Develop pallet of Adobe Lightroom 1.0 allows you to set separate Hue and Saturation values for Highlights and Shadows in a digital image. I will use a closeup of the Quoddy West Lighthouse (the...

What I love about the Lightroom's Print module is you are not limited to sending one image at a time to your printer. With a click of the print button you can send your entire Library to the printer, or...

A powerful addition to Lightroom is the ability to change saturation, lightness, and hue for different colors. Until now, this feature wasn't in Camera Raw, and the need to go into Photoshop to alter each color channel made the workflow...