Photo Editing Software and Applications

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To help you get into the software Adobe's Terry White shares several tips for beginners of Premiere Pro CC.

How can you clean up the background of your photo? Or how about Litely is improving mobile photography as we know it. Then again if you are not all that familiar with the image editing tool curve, you will be after reading this roundup!

Image Editing: Curve:

http://sidhavision.weebly.com/1/post/2014/05/image-editing-curve.html

Really any image editing program has the curve tool. A simplistic editing color or even monochrome option to enhance, darken, lighten or even a negative aspect to your photos.

How to Clean Up Your Photo Background:

http://weeder.org/rLHZs1X

If you use a fabric, vinyl or any kind of material that can collect dirt and you obviously don't want that to show up in your photo.  These steps in Photoshop will show you how to get rid of the clutter and dirt while keeping your subject clean cut.

Litely:

Behind Litely is Cole Rise who has made filters for Instagram and wants bring only the best for mobile cameras. Instagram filters are a bit on the more saturated heavy side, while Rise's idea is to create a software that will bring out the natural qualities of a photographers work rather than just mask the bad photos that someone doesn't want to throw away.

For now this week has brought you Litely that may just be the greatest idea to come into play, along with playing around with the curve tool. Whether you knew your program had it or not, cleaning up your background doesn't have to mean in the literal sense. Come back at the end of each week to see which three we've picked for Photo Editing Software and Applications.

Slidely came out as a new app to turn your photos into a moving video. Then after Adobe's crash they turned around and changed so you could upload various versions of Adobe to it's server. Also Gloomlogue will make you want to play with the idea that everything can look like a painting.

Slidely:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/27/slidely-launches-new-show-app-for-making-videos-out-of-pictures/

Sildely which is an Israel based creation, has a very cool concept. Think of it as a moving animation but more fluid and as if it were actually a mini short film.

Creative Cloud Updates and Allows Users to Use Previous Adobe Installations:

 http://petapixel.com/2014/05/29/newest-creative-cloud-update-allows-install-previous-versions-adobe-software/

Even though the thought goes back to one generation of the previous Adobe installments. It's nice to know that the CS6 that we learned back to front will be able to run just as smoothly.

Gloomlogue:

http://theappwhisperer.com/2014/05/30/ios-photography-app-gloomlogue-temporarily-free/

In the mood for new effects for your filters. Gloomlogue is not at all what the name suggests. Offering a vibrant painting effect is quite ideal, especially if you are at the beach or traveling along the coast.

Traveling using Gloomlogue, getting back to the basics with Adobe and making mini shorts with Slidely gave us this week an insight to what might be trending in the next month or so. Come back each week to hear more info!

Many photographers make fun of people taking photos and videos with their iPads for good reason. iPads don’t have very good lenses, you can’t attach them to a tripod and the sound just isn’t that good when recording video. The Padcaster is a gadget that was built to overcome all those issues.

Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can make an image stand out more by using, blurring, sharpening, burning, dodging and sponging. Let's get started! | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Quick; Tags: Tools & Tips, Pixelmator

Creative Cloud crashed this week which isn't good news for anyone. A short and sweet tutorial for your workflow involving street photography. And how about some cliches to avoid when editing photos, this what we have for you this week.

Adobe Creative Cloud is Down:

http://petapixel.com/2014/05/15/adobe-creative-cloud-is-down-rendering-apps-unusable/

Apps are uselss and the Cloud unfortunately took a tumble down the rabbit hole this week. The server has been suffering an extended blackout, however now everything should be working fine at the moment.

Tutorial, short sweet workflow: 

http://petapixel.com/2014/05/16/tutorial-short-sweet-workflow-editing-street-photography-lightroom-5/

With a time limit of a minute between images, this super fast street photography workflow will kick you into gear.

Nine Cliches to Avoid While Editing Photos:

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/05/13/9-photo-editing-cliches-and-how-to-avoid-them/3/

HDR overuse, too many filters, that odd black and white photo with a splash of color (that doesn't really add to the drama of the picture)...and the list goes on. Go through this list to see if you've committed any cliches recently.

Cliches to a minute per picture during your editing process. From one to another, hopefully Adobe will not shut down this week rendering nearly every outlet useless without it. Stay tuned to what we will bring you next week.

There are thousands of paid photo editing apps in the iOS App Store and to be frank, most of them would probably be overpriced even if they were free.