
These techniques don’t always work, and in fact there are times they make the image worse, but my success ratio with these techniques is so high that will always at least try them. With all of the options available in Photoshop, there are two specific techniques that, if I end up there, I will almost always try. I may have a critical client image that needs more complex edits, frequency separation, advanced masking or layers, or I might need tools that are either better in Photoshop, or that only exist there. I might have a shot I want in my portfolio, and I just want to add som POP to it. There are a number of reasons I might still end up in Photoshop.


It wasn’t a deep dive into masking, but a demonstration of how I use masks in Lightroom to add depth to my concert photography using what I call “ Dodge & Burn +”. It’s a technique that’s easy to do, and can be used on any genre of photography.ĭuring that show I mentioned that, for most jobs, I can usually finish all of my edits in Lightroom now, but that on occasion I may still finish an image in Photoshop. Photographers who already own Nik Collection 4 can upgrade by signing into their customer accounts for £69.A few episodes ago I talked about masking in Lightroom, which is one of my favorite new features in the program. Pricing & Availability: Nik Collection 5 (Windows and macOS) is now available for download on the DxO website and costs £135. Photographers who choose to shoot in RAW can get the power of DxO’s PhotoLab 5 ESSENTIAL, a feature-rich photo-editing software that contains DxO’s Optics Modules and U-Point technology for precise local adjustments. The plug-in can now automatically correct the geometric distortions produced by more than 70,000 camera and lens combinations.

Some 20 new cameras and 60 lenses have been added to DxO’s database of supported equipment. Nik Perspective Efex is also part of the collection and it benefits from the ongoing research conducted in DxO’s labs. Color Efex also benefits has 29 authentic color film grain effects that were created in DxO’s laboratories, giving analog enthusiasts a range of new creative options. Fog, mist, smoke and pollution are intelligently reduced using a simple slider, returning contrast and color to photographs.

Haze in photographs is now easy to remove with Nik Color Efex thanks to ClearView, a technology borrowed from DxO PhotoLab 5.
