With Christmas and the holiday season only day away, both Skylum and Phase One have some special deals on in time for the holidays. Skylum is offering 10% off the price of Luminar, and Phase One are offering a special bundle price on their style packs. All this month, I’ve been having a sale on my Style Packs too.

When Capture One 20 Was Released at the start of December 2019, one of the key new features was the revised HDR tool. Since the release, there has been a lot of commentary around this that indicates that there is a degree of confusion about the changes, and in particular how they relate to other software, or other tools within Capture One. In order to try and explain the differences, I wanted to take a deeper look at the revised HDR tool in Capture One 20.

Sky Replacement in Luminar 4 is one of the headline features of the new version of the software, but it has a limitation in that it doesn’t do reflections. In this video I show you how to reflect the replaced sky in reflections with just the tools included in Luminar.

Yesterday, Adobe released a new set of updates across the Lightroom family, and of particular interest is the new version of Lightroom mobile. This release brings one of the most requested features to the software, and finally allows you to directly import images from a memory card into Lightroom without any workarounds. They also added new controls for exporting your images and improved shared albums.

Ever since upgrading to Lightroom Classic 9, and even with the previous version, it seems as if Lightroom has been a real memory hog. The pattern suggests a memory leak bug, as it seems to get worse the longer Lightroom is running, even if you’re not actually doing anything. Either way, this memory usage problem is making running Lightroom a real pain for me at the moment.

I’ve updated my Fuji Capture One guide to include preliminary support for Capture One 20. If you are a Fuji shooter using Capture One, the new version of my eBook now contains support for both Capture One 12 and Capture One 20.

Capture One 20 has just been released, and the newest version of Phase One’s Photo Editing Software comes with changes to the interface, improved and re-engineered tools, as well as some other improvements and features.

My X-Pro 2 is not well. I went out to shoot some autumn scenes with it a few weeks ago, and after taking about 20 photos, the camera started acting weird. The screen started breaking up and then the camera completely froze. I couldn’t even turn it off, and I had to take the battery out. I left it out for a little while and put it back in and it worked again for another 10 shots or so, then it started again.

Skylum software has announced a number special bundle offers for Black Friday. These include Luminar 4 and a bundle of Bonuses. You can choose from one of three bundles

If you want to shoot RAW on your iPhone then it is important to properly process those RAW files. Because the camera app on an iPhone normally does a significant amount of processing, you will need to do this in software if you shoot RAW. While there are lots of applications that will process RAW files from an iPhone, I normally use Lightroom, but I wanted to see what kind of results you could get from Capture One too, and how best to process the images. After a lot of experimentation and trial and error, here are my results and recommendations.

In this video, I take a look at editing an image in the newly released Luminar 4 and show you how to edit your image with just a couple of sliders using the AI tools in the software. I also look at some of the other new features and the changed interface in Luminar 4.

While photo workflow applications like Lightroom or Capture One have been around for a while now, there are still some new users who are confused by how these applications work. One of the most common questions I see from beginners or people not familiar with this way of working is “how do I save in Lightroom?”, as there is no save function in the menu. To answer that and other questions, let’s take a look at how this class of “photo workflow” applications actually work.

It’s weird writing a review of something that a lot of people have been talking about for quite some time now. Luminar 4 was pre-announced a while ago now, and the company has been drip feeding information about it to the public. Lots of people including myself have already shared details on some of the new features, the new interface and so on, so what’s left to review? Well, I wanted to wait until the software was actually released to put all the disparate threads together and talk about the application as a whole. So with that in mind, here are my impressions of Luminar 4, its new feature and what it is like to use.

It seems like it was ages ago when Luminar 4 was first announced, but the software is now finally available. The new version of Luminar includes a new interface, and new AI-driven tools and is now available to order, and download from the Skylum Website. I will have a full review of the software later today but for now here are the details of the release.

For the rest of November I’m having a special Autumn sale on all of my Capture One Style Packs. The normal price of €15 has been dropped to €10 for the rest of November (until the 2nd December 2019) so you can get the styles for a third off the regular price.