Category: Reviews

DIYP reviews the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Video

John Aldred

When it comes to getting consistent colour with your stills photography, regardless of the lighting conditions, camera model, or even brand, I can’t think of anything I’d rather have with me than the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport (CCP). just works, pretty much flawlessly. For video, though, it’s not quite as useful. So, when X-Rite announced that they had released two […]

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The Ultimate Mastin Labs Review — Fuji Pro, Portra, Ilford (+Exclusive Discount)

Josh

You won’t find a ton of reviews for Lightroom presets or Photoshop actions on this blog, but this is my second Mastin Labs review (read the first one here) for a very good reason: The majority of presets packs, while powerful, tend to be very broad and distracting for new photographers, but Mastin…

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How To Create Awesome Social Graphics With Adobe Spark

JP Danko

Adobe Spark is a new app from Adobe that allows users to create template based social media graphics (Spark Post), web stories (Spark Page) and animated videos (Spark Video) using a simple online interface. If you’re like me, you often find yourself creating social media graphics from scratch in Photoshop (or with an Photoshop action set). […]

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Using Pixelsquid to add 3D Star Wars (and other) objects to your images

Roderique Arisiaman

I’m always looking for good stock images to use in my photoshop composites. I find them online, or use the awesome Texture Store. Or I make my own. But sometimes its impossible to find the right image that fits your idea. And if you do find the right image, it’s at the wrong angle or […]

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Realistic Composites does a great job at teaching you how to realistically compose

Stefan Kohler

Realistic Composites (basics) – €85.00 by Adrian Sommeling is a workshop that teaches you how to create lively, funny composits from start to finish. And when I say start, I mean from pre-planning a shoot so your photos are “composing ready”, until putting the last coloring touch on the final piece. As someone who is just starting out […]

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Affinity Photo: can it give Adobe a run for its money?

Daniela Bowker

I am currently in the market for a Lightroom replacement. It’s a story involving a dead laptop and Adobe’s business practices, which are simultaneously too mundane and too incendiary to address, so I shall not indulge you with the details. But a Lightroom replacement is a tall order. First, and most obviously because Lightroom’s reputation […]

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‘The Great 24-70mm f/2.8 Shootout’ pits nearly identical Canon, Nikkor, Pentax and Sony against each other

Gannon Burgett

No matter what brand of camera you prefer, there’s a good chance a 24–70mm f/2.8 lens is available for the mount. It’s one of the most versatile pieces of glass out there and almost every company manufacturers some variation of it. To put four of these variations to the test, Camera Store TV created a […]

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First look at the Lensbaby Twist 60

Jake Hicks

I was super excited to hear a few weeks back that Lensbaby had a new lens in the works and even more excited when I heard it was going to be a lens with the swirly bokeh effect. In the past this swirly visual effect had been the money-train for Lomo an…