Recent content by DR M

My intent for replacing skies is definitely not to participate in competitions. Just to use them in some family photos where the original sky is bland or under/overexposed. I had this idea when I looked at a picture of my kids in front of the university where I graduated. The kids were in the...

Flickr vs Insta.... hmmm... no one is using 500px?

Thank you for your response. Honestly, I don’t like the idea of subscription software. Plus, I cannot justify it. I mostly take family photos. It’ actually easy to do this in PSE, just not sure what settings to use.

After many years of using real fabric backdrops for (my) family portraits, I kind of got bored of the three that I have (and not willing to invest more in this) and decided to use virtual backdrops. I have been using Photoshop Elements for many years, although I am not an expert. I had a recent...

As I recently purchased Luminar 4, I am impressed by its "sky replacement" capabilities. However, I am quite disapointed by the limited number of "skies" available. Soon, everyone will have the same sky in their photos :) While I started taking sky pictures and building a "sky database", I am...

Just curious, why is Flickr upload so important? I thought this was something that could be done easily outside the processing software.

I also like xnView and xnViewMP (more advanced). They are both free. I use them mostly for previewing but they have some basic editing capabilities too.

XnviewMP does all that except the Flickr upload. But it’s free and it’s been around a long time.

I am still using my old (purchased in 2009 I believe) Sony Alpha 330 and ideally I would like to upgrade to another Sony A mount. However, Sony seems to have abandoned the A mount platform. The last A mount camera ( at least in my budget range), the alpha68 came out in 2016, so it’s kind of old...

What I had in mind is situations like retouching pictures for posting on Flickr, 500px, Facebook, etc.

Well... the title says it all. Where do you feel the boundary is for adjusting a photo without compromising the authenticity of the original?

My two cents: cameras don't take photos. People do.

I am curious if anyone is using 4K monitors to edit and/or view photos. Given how much 4K TVs have fallen in price, I was expecting 4K monitors to follow the same trend. It hasn’t quite happened but they are nevertheless available. Since I seldom print photos, most of the time I view them on my...

I’ve used Photoshop Elements for the past ten years or so, upgrading every 2-3 years. Never felt the need to get the full version. I am also using xnView, the free viewer and catalog software. Ocassionaly I used Nik’s free plugins (they used to be free and I kept a copy). I recently downloaded...

Just a follow up. My personal preference would be something like this (cropped and enhanced colours).