Freeware tinting/toning plugin

September 1, 2008

This plug-in allows you to add tints to an image for artistic effect. e.g. sepia tone, warm, cool, bleach bypass, etc. It can also convert images to black & white and can emulate the use of color [...]

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White Balance

August 13, 2008

Is there such thing as perfect white balance?  Some people worry over getting white balance technically correct. And there are products on the market such as Expodisc that try to do exactly this.  In my opinion however, you don’t need to obsess over white balance.  Why?  Because our perception of color is a guess to [...]

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White Balance and Highlight Recovery Plug-in (free)

July 20, 2008

I’ve just released a freeware white balance and highlight recovery plug-in at Free Photoshop Plugins.

What it doesn’t do
It doesn’t do a better job than a RAW workflow. Shooting and processing RAW is still the best way of doing things. My plug-in works inside Photoshop so it does not have access to the RAW [...]

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RAW is ALMOST always higher quality

July 19, 2008

For stills photography, many people advocate shooting RAW as it allows for more flexible processing and is higher quality. However, there is one weird case where shooting JPEG in camera can actually yield higher quality. This can occur when the deBayer/demosaic algorithm in the camera happens to do a better job than the [...]

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