Software

• Some Cool Tips for Using Lightroom’s White Balance Eyedropper
• Lightroom Coffee Break: Viewing with Negative Magnification
• How To Get That Dramatic Post-Processing Portrait Look in Lightroom
• Some Cool Tips For The White Balance Eyedropper Tool
• An Overview of Google’s Nik Collection Filters for Post-Processing
• How to Use the Healing Tool in Photoshop
• How to do Bulk Resize and Edit in Photoshop
• Adding “Copy” when Duplicating Layers in Photoshop
• Hiding and Showing Panels in Lightroom CC
• 4 Easy Ways To Transform Your Photos With A Luminosity Mask In Photoshop
• Have You Got Your Monochrome Techniques Nailed In Lightroom?
• Basic Tutorial Clears Up a Fundamental Confusion About Lightroom
• Photoshop: The Make Better key
• Instant Replay: Getting Started with Perfectly Clear

Creativity

• 23 Ninja Tips For Your Next Photo Walk
• How to Get the Correct Exposure at Night with These Helpful Tips
• How to Improve Your Night Photos – Add Reflections
• This Amazing Presentation Could Take Your Photography Composition Skills to the Next Level
• The Cleverly Composed Photos of Denis Cherim
• Moody Infrared Photos of Patagonia’s Dramatic Landscape
• Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

Miscellaneous

• Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art
• Judging Photos for the Club Scene
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto ISO
• Re-Thinking the Raw File Workflow with Mirrorless
• Fascinating Photography Links
• Contact Sheets and the Secret Story Behind Every Photo

Apologies for skipping a week. This weekend’s list covers the past two weeks so you haven’t missed anything.

Software

• Adding Your Own Custom Picture Frame in Lightroom
• Go with the glow: How to effectively use Orton Layers in post processing
• The 5 Best Google Nik Color Efex Pro 4 Filters and How They Can Amplify Your Images
• The 6 Most Important Things You Need to Know about Lightroom’s Develop Module
• How to Add a Reflection in Photoshop
• 10 Common Lightroom mistakes and how to avoid them
• How to make difficult hair selections in Photoshop CC
• How to deal with difficult panoramic image stitching in Photoshop the easy way
• Photoshop Trick: How to Stitch Together Difficult Panoramas
• Get an Awesome Photoshop and Lightroom Plug-in Totally Free
• Renaming Photos in Lightroom
• How do I use my Lightroom catalog on multiple computers?
• Editing a Black and White Photo in Adobe Lightroom
• Corel AfterShot Pro 3 Offers More Affordable Alternative to Adobe

Gear

• My Most Important Camera Feature is How It Makes Me Feel
• How to Clean Your Photography Gear and Keep it in Good Shape
• That’s a Big Printer
• The Manfrotto TwistGrip Lets You Mount Your Phone on a Tripod
• Why Don’t We Have a Universal TTL Flash Standard?

Creativity

• How Making Horrible Photos Will Lead to More Keepers
• Improve Your Middle of the Day Photos By Doing Black and White
• An Exercise to Learn and Practice Shutter Speed at Home
• How Using Your Smartphone Camera Can Help Improve Your Photography
• Breaking the Rules of Composition to Make Your Images More Interesting
• How and When to Take Wide Angle Lenses Beyond Landscape Shots
• Depth of Field Explained
• Long Exposures for Abstract Art
• Splash Photography: How to Capture Liquid Motion
• La Noir Image | Black and White Isn’t a Crutch; the Color is Just Drab

Miscellaneous

• World Wet Plate Collodion Day
• World’s Largest Pinhole Camera Takes World’s Largest Photo
• 32 Dizzying Images of Spiral Staircases
• Hoelen, McCook and Pettit get airborne to capture ‘Altered Lands’
• ‘Nature’s tattoos’: beauty of birthmarks showcased in Sydney photography exhibition
• burn: an evolving journal for emerging photographers
• Reciprocity and Exposure Math in the Digital Age
• The Difference Between RGB and CMYK
• Understanding Flash Sync Speed (It’s Simple)
• Are You Actually Into Photography? An Argument Against Pixel Peeping

Software

• Changing Shape Tool Options in Photoshop
• Adding Arrowheads to the Line Tool in Photoshop
• Hands-On Review: ACDSee Ultimate 9
• Affinity Photo: can it give Adobe a run for its money?
• How to have Lightroom CC Auto-Straighten Your Photos
• Creating a Lens Flare Effect and Dust Particles in Photoshop
• Cinematic Color Grading With Lightroom
• Building Standard Previews in Lightroom

Gear

• The Weird 10: Meet the Most Unusual and Expensive Lenses in the World
• Letters to The Editor: What Camera?
• 5 Camera Bag Hacks to Help You Curb the Temptation of Buying More
• Essential Equipment for Timelapse Photography

Technique

• 8 Reasons to Love Long Exposure Photography
• How to Take Low Key Lighting Portraits
• Strip it back: The art of simplicity
• Star Trail Processing in Lightroom and Photoshop and Six Tips on Finding Your Way at Night

Creativity

• Photo Essay Documents Young Woman Who Raises Sled Dogs Off-The-Grid
• Simplest Way to Get a Great Background Anywhere
• Get creative with a window lightbox
• La Noir Image | Love: Exploring A Relationship in Monochrome
• 24 Reflective Mirror Images to Make You Look Twice
• 10 Black and White Instagram Photographers Under 10K Followers

Miscellaneous

• How much landscape Photoshop is still a fair game?
• Botched Steve McCurry Print Leads to Photoshop Scandal
• Kickstarter campaign: La Noir Image- Documenting the Monochrome Lifestyle
• A Shutter Speed of 1/100,000,000 s: Capturing Photos of the Atomic Bomb

Software

• Why Lightroom’s Gradient Filter Tool Might Be Better Than The Real Thing…
• How to Make Your Photos Shine Using Clarity, Sharpening, and Dehaze in Lightroom
• Getting Great Editing Results in Lightroom
• Tutorial Shows You How to Totally Transform a Sunset in Lightroom
• Instant Replay: Lightroom Workflow from Start to Finish
• ON1 Photo RAW, the first new RAW processor in a decade

Gear

• Three tips for curing G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
• 10 of the Weirdest Cameras Ever Made | Fstoppers
• The 11 Stupidest Things Photographers Say About Gear
• Leica M-D: Is a Digital Camera for ‘Manual Purists’ Even Possible?

Creativity

• 10 Modern Tintype Photographers You Should Follow on Instagram
• GINZA NO SUKIMA: A Dark Look at a Japanese Shopping Town

Miscellaneous

• Help Us With Our Most Ambitious Project Yet: La Noir Image Magazine

Software

• Lightroom Dehaze Tool!
• Lightroom Organizing Tip: Finding Your Missing Images
• How to Blend in Adjustments Using Layer Masking in Photoshop
• Paste Into a Selection in Photoshop
• Pasting into a Layer Mask in Photoshop
• Workflow Options In Adobe Camera Raw
• Photoshop Clone Source Ability
• How do I find and move or rename my Lightroom catalog?
• Using Photoshop Art Brush To Make A ‘Painted On’ Effect

Gear

• Holding Your Camera – Photo Tips @ Earthbound Light
• Understanding Aperture Is Important for Any Photographer. Read Why…
• 10 Minutes To Understand YOUR Camera Modes

Creativity

• 4 Steps on How to Read Images and Learn to Replicate the Results
• In Favor of “P” (Program mode) in Photography
• Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos
• Shooting One of the Most Beautiful Abandoned Buildings in the World

Other

• Gallery: 2016 Sony World Photography Award Winners
• NASA releases incredibly high-resolution Earth-rise photo captured from above the lunar surface
• 37 Links to Bring You Up to Speed on the World of Photography This Week

Software

• Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
• Lightroom Alternatives
• Another Start to Finish Lightroom-only Tutorial Video
• Quick Tip About Reducing Noise
• Step by Step How to Use HDR Merge in Lightroom
• Previewing Images Full Screen in Bridge
• 3 Extremely Useful Photoshop Techniques you Should Know
• How to Use Colour Balance for Advanced Black and White Conversion in Adobe Lightroom

Gear

• Beginner’s Guide to Buying Filters
• Strategies for Buying Digital Cameras

Creativity

• Before & After: How One Popular Photographer Edits His Photos
• Signs of light shows the awesome photos you can create with just a light and a tube
• Shooting for HDR, And Whether You Even Need To
• Exhibit on Early Soviet Photography Examines Creative Change
• The ultimate guide to the sunny 16 rule – Part 1
• The ultimate guide to the sunny 16 rule – Part 2
• How to Properly Focus and Recompose When Shooting a Photo
• How to Improve Your Photos Using Micro-Composition
• Photography’s Basics: Aperture
• Editing Your Photos According to the Histogram

Miscellaneous

• The Law as it pertains to Photographers in South Africa (Updated 2015-10-05)
• 11 TED Talks on Photography Worth Watching
• 10 Silly Mistakes Photographers Make
• Does It Matter? Why You Shouldn’t Need To Watermark Your Images

Software

• From Flat to Fabulous: My Start-to-finish Lightroom-only Editing Tutorial
• Use this time stacking technique to create surreal landscapes
• The Art of Photoshop Compositing Course on Lynda.com
• Backing Up Your Lightroom Catalog
• Instant Replay: Lightroom’s Print Module with Kevin Ames
• How to Cut Out the Subject From the Background in Photoshop
• How to create precise masks in Lightroom

Gear

• Lomography unveils Daguerreotype-inspired Achromat lens for modern-day DSLRs
• Review: The Canon 80D is a Solid DSLR Stuck in No Man’s Land
• Proper Long Lens Technique with Scott Bourne
• DIY: How to Make Your Own Flash Diffuser for Macro Photography

Creativity

• Use this time stacking technique to create surreal landscapes
• This Animation Was Created Using Old Photos from the Early 1900s
• The Double Exposures of Brandon Kidwell
• Gravity: Flower Power is a Curious Study of Color
• Using light fall-off to illuminate your subject

Miscellaneous

• This is why you should never chimp at your camera
• This photographer filled a house with sand to exhibit her photos of houses filled with sand
• Profoto Interviews Mary Ellen Mark
• Use These Basic Post Production Techniques to Speed up Your Workflow
• I Reshot Old Photos to See How China Has Changed Over 100 Years
• Discover One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth in This Viral Timelapse
• Imagination First, Gear Second
• Casual Photographers Were ‘Stealing’ Work from Pros Back in 1887

Software

• Lightroom’s Hidden HDR Advantage
• 5 Tips for Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush Tool
• Lightroom Quick Post-Processing Tips for Landscape Photography
• How to quickly and easily add backgrounds with textures in Photoshop
• How to install Photoshop keyboard shortcuts in Gimp
• How Understanding Lightroom’s Search Filters Can Save You Hours!

Gear

• 3 Reasons Why Mirrorless Cameras are Better than Digital SLRs for Focusing
• 13 Safe and Sound Storage Devices
• How to clean your camera lenses (and check for problems)
• This is the best way to attach a camera strap
• I Found a Camera Graveyard in a Newspaper Basement

Creativity

• 5 Tips to Take Better Sunset Photos – and Why Not to Photograph the Sunset Directly
• How To Pre-Visualize A Photograph: Interpret – Envision – Plan – Execute
• Make a home studio – in your bath!
• The ultimate guide to understanding ISO
• How Using Colour for Contrast Can Make Your Photos Pop
• It’s amazing what you can do with cutlery, a glass ball and a perforated metal sheet

Miscellaneous

• 7 Fun Strategies to Maximize Your Enjoyment of Photography
• DIY: How to organize your messy cords and cables using only zip ties
• DIY: How to turn 35mm film canisters into compact SD card holders
• Monochrome Manual
• 10 Places You Can Get Photography Freebies
• Missing The Moment And Capturing It At The Same Time
• Why You Should Be Printing Your Work
• 5 Uncomfortable Truths About Photography
• Many Great Depression Photos Were ‘Killed’ by This Editor’s Hole Punch 

Software

• Today we’re making the Nik Collection available to everyone, for free.
• Tutorial: How to save overexposed highlights in Lightroom
• Using Photoshop Actions and Droplets with Lightroom
• In Defense of Flickr: 8 Reasons I’m Sticking Around
• 5 Best Nik Color Efex Pro 4 Filters for Amazing Photos
• Athentech announces Perfect Exposure and its FREE!

Gear

• Nikon issues pre-emptive recalls for both D5 and D500. please return yours for service, in advance
• How to Choose a Lens for Astrophotography
• The 411 on Lens Hoods

Creativity

• What’s The Point Of That Weird Minimalist Art?
• A Beginner’s Guide to Focus Stacking
• How Thinking Film and Shooting Digital Can Improve Your Photography
• A harmonograph is a spirograph for long exposure photography
• Creating the Photograph: Jose Torres ” A Splash of Flavor”

Miscellaneous

• Announcing: La Noir Image Issue 0
• Video: Baikal Ice Adventure
• 36 Cool Photography Links
• The Soldiers Who Photographed the Vietnam War
• Dive into the World of Ocean Photographer Thomas Peschak
• Free Webinar – Landscape Photography: Shooting and Making Compelling Images