What is New in Lightroom 6.6

What's New in Lightroom 6.6

See all the new items in the You Tube Movie from Anthony Morganti

Or this one by Tony Northrup

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How to use the Content Aware fill in Photoshop

A short post today about the content aware fill in Photoshop. 

Let me start with this picture: 

In this case I want more space at the left side of the picture. I can do that using the crop tool (C): 

But make sure that "delete cropped pixels" is off. That results in this image: 

Next step is to fill the transparent part of the picture. I can do this by first selecting this part of the image with the Magic want tool (M). When selected you've got to fill it. Go to Edit > Fill and choose Content aware.

Hit Ok and see to it that Photoshop is able to fill it correctly. In this case it's not perfect but not to worry, it's easy to correct (with the Clone Stamp (S) and Spot healing brush tool(J)). 

With a bit of extra work, this is my end result: 

The team of Photoshop is now working on a new feature called Content Aware Crop. Check out this sneak peek to get an idea of how it's supposed to work: 

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How to earn money on the net with your pictures

There's so many possibilities to earn money with your pictures on the net. There are a few things to keep in mind: deliver quality, deliver quality, deliver quality and be persistent. 

I guess you've all come across some of the best known stockphoto sites like: 

• Alamy
• Dreamstime
• Shutterstock

And there are heaps more!  

Have a look at the pictures on these sites to see what they're after. And then go out and shoot some yourself. You might already have good quality pictures in your portfolio that are worth loading up to a stockphoto agency. 

With most of the (good) sites, your pictures get reviewed before they're actually put up for sale. Each site has their own review criteria, but don't worry, you'll get familiair with them over time. All the sites are after good quality pictures that have a great composition and are pinsharp. Besides loading up your pictures, you also need to pay attention to filling out the right keywords. Right as in the right language (sometimes only English is allowed), describing your image best. 

There are sites where you can upload with the whole reviewing business: 

• Picfair
• Crated
• Fineart America

The key to seling your images via stockphoto sites is to upload great pictures on a regular basis. Pinsharp, well-composed, standing out from the crowd. It takes time to build up a portfolio at each of these sites, but stick with it! It's worth it in the long run!

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How to straighten an image in #lightroom

One of the most important things to do is to straighten your horizon when editing your pictures in Lightroom.  And it's real easy to do, let me show you. 

I start with this image:

 

As you can see the horizon is not entirely the way it should be. 

To solve this, I use the crop tool (R) in Lightroom (in the develop module).

There's a few options to straighten the horizon. The first one is to click on the Auto button in the middle of this section.

  

Click Done and voila, the horizon is straightened.

The second option is to do it yourself by using the straighten tool. 

 Click on the icon and then draw a line over the horizon.

It's easy enough to correct it in post processing. But why not make it even easier and pay attention when shooting. After all, when you have to straighten it in Lightroom you will end up losing some parts of your picture.

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