Annular Solar Eclipse 2019

Annular Solar Eclipse

On Thursday, 26th December 2019, almost the whole of south India witnessed Annular Solar Eclipse. I was fortunate enough to be close to the path of the Annular Solar Eclipse. Even though my home town was just outside the path, I went to Mangalore which was just an hour’s drive to capture this spectacle. This … Read more

What’s New in Lightroom Classic 9.0?

What’s New in Lightroom Classic 9.0

Lightroom Classic 9.0 has been released today along with several Adobe program updates for 2020. Here are the few new features I noticed. The updates are very incremental, I do hope the performance issue will not be a problem like previous updates. Fill Edges for Panorama Merge Previously, any missing edges caused by creating a … Read more

How to Properly Transfer Images from Lightroom to Photoshop and back!

Transfer Images from Lightroom to Photoshop

Adobe’s Lightroom Classic is an incredibly powerful tool incorporating perhaps 80-90% of all the tools that we photographers generally need. There are however times, when we need to do some post-production work in Photoshop, perhaps working in layers, maybe for the content-aware tool, whatever the reason, we need to be able to move cleanly from … Read more

Loupedeck Review

Loupedeck Review

The Loupedeck is a recently launched photo editing console designed to speed up your workflow when adjusting images in Adobe Lightroom. Looking something like a DJ’s mixing desk, Loupedeck was developed by a team of ex-Nokia product developers and launched as a crowd-funded project last year. Loupedeck is built exclusively to control Lightroom. The dials, … Read more

Create animated GIFs using Photoshop

Select frames in Lightroom

Last week’s blog I posted an animated GIF file showing the slipped runner at the Kambala. Since many have asked how it was done, here is the tutorial. You can check the final GIF above. For this to work effectively you need series of photos which are relatively stable. Handheld burst shots I used worked … Read more