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Topaz Adjust Tutorials

If you decide to purchase a license for Topaz Adjust, or for any of the Topaz Labs products, you will get an instant 10% discount if you enter the following coupon code during your purchase: photoluminary Edit: Since my initial writing of this post, I have learned quite a lot about Topaz Adjust and have […]

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Photomatix XMP File

For a 15% automatic discount on any Photomatix product, enter the coupon code photoluminary during your order. XMP files were initially created by Adobe.  XMP stands for “Extensible Metadata Platform”.  It is a file type that allows for embedding of data about a file, also known as metadata, within the file itself. When you save […]

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What is HDR Photography?

To get started with HDR photography, download Photomatix from HDRsoft.com.  They offer a fully functional trial version, which will never expire.  If you decide to purchase a license, you can get an instant 15% discount by entering the coupon code photoluminary during your order. If you are considering Photomatix Pro as a gift, I would […]

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Lightroom Photomatix Plug-In

To get an automatic 15% discount on the purchase of any Photomatix product, enter the coupon code photoluminary into the order form. Photomatix Pro, made by HDRsoft, comes with a free Lightroom Export Plug-In.  This plug-in is an export only plug-in, which can make your work-flow faster, especially when you have multiple sets of bracketed […]

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Chromatic Aberrations and HDR

Get an automatic 15% discount on any Photomatix product.  Simply enter the coupon code photoluminary during your order. Chromatic aberrations, which are also commonly called “color fringing”,  are a common problem in HDR photography.  This is a type of distortion caused by a lens, typically a cheaper model or a wide angle lens.  The lens […]

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Noise Reduction – Photomatix Pro

For a 15% discount on any Photomatix product, enter the coupon code photoluminary during your order. The newest version of Photomatix Pro, version 4, now offers a very high quality noise reduction option.  The previous version of Photomatix Pro only applied noise reduction to the merged 32-bit result, rather than to the source images.  With […]

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HDR Tutorial – Photomatix Pro 4

Welcome to my HDR tutorial and Photomatix Pro Version 4 Review Get a 15 % discount on any Photomatix product by entering the coupon code photoluminary during your order from HDRsoft.com.  Photomatix Pro is typically $99, so that’s quite a discount! Last July, I wrote a Photomatix tutorial which was aimed at beginning HDR photographers. […]

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