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ACR Part 7 – Lens Corrections

Posted on: August 16th, 2011

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It’s a fact of life that all lenses are imperfect; it’s the nature of lens design and physics that dictate this rather than any design flaws inherent in the lenses themselves. Whilst professional and high end lenses minimise the imperfections they will employ a wide variety of techniques to offset these weaknesses such as lens

ACR Part 6 – Split Toning

Posted on: May 1st, 2011

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Split toning tab is a process where you divide an image in to two halves and then apply a colour to each of those sections. It’s a great way to produce creative effects when you apply colour theory such as blending blue shadows with yellow highlights resulting in colour vibrancy. In essence this is a

ACR Part 5 – The HSL Tab

Posted on: April 15th, 2011

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These three tabs within the RAW interface offer a set of tools that really allows you to be creative and play with colour. It utilises the power of the HSL colour mode to allow you move and adjust colours throughout the image. Whilst it can do colour correction it’s still best to do this in