Sometimes in Lightroom, just having a Smart Preview is enough. Using Smart Previews saves having hard drives plugged in all the time, edits can still be made and images exported at a reduced size from the original. But if you need to export the original file size for printing, for a client or even to make further edits using Photoshop…

Polarising filters are probably the most important filters in photography. To understand when to use polarisers, it is important to understand reflectance. Simply put, reflectance is defined as a "measure of the ability of a surface to reflect light or other electromagnetic radiation". While the polariser hasn't changed the amount of light leaving the surface of the an object, in…

Users of Serif's Affinity Photo software have something big to look forward to in the coming week. The company have announced a major update of some kind coming to the line-up. "...a next-level creative experience..." Speculation is that it could be a video editing program that would add to the company's current photography, graphic design and desktop publishing offerings. Or…

Adobe's Lightroom is a powerful piece of software and sometimes it is necessary to change settings. Here for example is one use, the standard settings for filenames on export can cause problems. If for example you have an image that has been edited in Photoshop and has the suffix -Edit like I do here then on export the entire filename…