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Photoshop's Liquify Tool Brush Lag (Quick Fix)
After updating to Photoshop 2020, I needed to use the Liquify tool. Just for a quick retouch for an Instagram story. So, I launched Photoshop and opened the Liquify tool… And couldn’t use it. Moving the mouse, I could see the cursor jumping from one place on the screen to the other every 3-4 seconds. The lag between my hand movement and the response was so bad that it took me half...
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I Almost Blew Up My WordPress With One Setting
I love WordPress. I have used it since it was called B2/Cafelog, probably around 2002. Then I used its public .com version for my successful food-blog and the self-hosted one for many of my clients, including big names like JP Morgan or Bank Of New York Mellon. According to the latest stats, in 2020 WordPress powers 35% of the entire Internet. It means it’s installed on just shy of 500 million websites....
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Fujifilm LUT Pack for OBS
I created a Fujifilm LUT presets pack for OBS (or StreamLabs). You don’t know OBS? OK, Let me explain… As you know, I recently started live streaming on YouTube. And I have been testing a few apps to help me with that. Once I settle for one solution, I may enthusiastically write (or stream) about that particular one. But for now, I’m only going to briefly mention all I know. OBS (Open...
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Master Sharpening Fujifilm RAW in Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide
Sharpening Fujifilm Raw files in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It's a topic that has filled articles for a very long time... Here's my optimal solution.
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A fix to Adobe Lightroom presets visibility
This may be old news, but I often hear this question about Lightroom presets. The Problem Over a year ago, Adobe decided to refine (= overhaul) how presets work in Lightroom. All of a sudden, some of my own presets were not showing in the Develop panel anymore. And the same happened to others. In some cases, all the presets were showing, but some had their names in italics or greyed out....
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Luminar 4.1: a worthy improvement?
The new update to Luminar 4 is here. It’s a minor update, but it has some interesting features and a few fixes. If you are remotely into photography, you must have least heard of Luminar. In particular, with the last milestone, version 4, their marketing campaigns have been quite aggressive in building hype. Skylum went all in with the promotion of its Artificial Intelligence. And one of the most discussed features is...
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Instagram account issues. Now restricted.
After the story about my shadowban and how it happened, I’m back to talking about Instagram account issues. Yes, again. How Positive… One thing I try to do every time I post on Instagram is reply to all who leave comments on my photos. Even if it’s just to say thanks. Instagram is a social media, so nurturing its social component is very important to me. And I like to talk with...
Read MoreReadly Summer Deal: All-You-Can-Read for 0.99
Readly is now running a Summer deal, which lets you try the service and read their entire catalogue without limitations for 2 months. All for 0.99. Just use my link, register and start.
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It Could Have Been a Disaster [Backblaze]
You read horror stories online but always think they can never happen to you. You are more careful and surely the victims must have made some silly mistake you never make. More specifically, there is no way you can lose hundreds of gigabytes of photos all of a sudden. Well...
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My editing workflow: Luminosity Masks
In this blog, I start disclosing my editing workflow, and the first topic I’d like to introduce is Luminosity Masks. Luminosity Masks are something you might have heard before, mostly if you shoot Landscape/Cityscape. In a nutshell, they are selections based on tones that allow for refined adjustments. In their basic form, they broadly target highlights and/or shadows. But they can be further refined to include mid-tones or narrow down an image’s...
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The Gatwick fiasco
The Gatwick Fiasco. Or how the second largest and busiest airport in the UK couldn’t handle a drone alert and ruined the Christmas plans of 150.000 people. Including me. I’m sure you all heard what happened a few days ago. Alerts of drones flying near the airport runway caused a shutdown of all operations. Every flight on Wednesday got cancelled. Then, on Thursday, it happened again when I arrived at the airport....
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