Software

• A Photographer’s Lightroom Workflow in a Real-Time Walkthrough
• Instant Replay: Enhancing Color in Lightroom with Wes Maggio
• 4 Key Lightroom Sliders That Will Supercharge Your Photos
• Live White Balance Previews in Lightroom – Lightroom Killer Tips
• Want to improve Photoshop Lightroom performance? Try some of these suggestions.
• How to Color Tone Using Gradient Maps in Photoshop
• Finish Fireworks Photos in Lightroom! It’s Easy
• Three tools to rule them all: How to fix anything in Photoshop with three basic tools

Gear

• DSLR or Mirrorless: Which One is Right For Your Needs?
• A Surprisingly Simple Menu That Will Transform Your Photography
• Introduction to Monitors for Photographers, Videographers, and Retouchers
• How to Build a Cheap and Simple Variable Neutral Density Filter
• Tokina’s 24-70 vs Nikon’s – Half the price, better quality

Creativity

• 5 Simple Ways To Use Lens Flare
• Photography Rules For The Rebel
• Tips for Successful Star Trails Photography
• Tips for HDR Night Photography to Retain Maximum Image Detail
• 10 Things to Keep in Mind When Stacking Time-Lapse Images
• Pilot Captures Incredible Thunderstorm Photo from 37,000 Feet
• Using Shadows As Creative Tools In Your Photography
• Culling photos – choosing your best photos
• Photographing the Milky Way Over Greece
• I Strummed My Tripod During a Photo of Fireworks and Got a Cool Effect

Miscellaneous

• Dodging, burning… microwaving? A look inside Ansel Adams’ darkroom
• 5 Life-Saving Tips on How to Back Up Photos
• Bresson Would Face Massive Obstacles in Today’s Photo World
• Three Things to Know Before Exporting to Black and White | Fstoppers

Software

• Preference for Legacy Healing Brush In Photoshop CC 15.5
• 10 Quick Photoshop Tips to Improve Your Workflow
• App review: Full Frame for Mac is a quick, easy JPEG viewer, XMP editor
• Lightroom Beginners Tip: How To Edit The “Live Histogram”
• Create a Lightroom Reset Preset
• Creative Borders in Photoshop
• Tips for File Renaming Success in Lightroom
• Review: ACDSee Ultimate 9 Software
• How to Use Photoshop to Enhance Details in Your Photos

Gear

• Five Prime Lenses For Photographers Who Want Their Trigger Tripped
• The Best Camera for Street Photography
• 7 Reasons Why Fisheye Lenses Are Awesome
• Canon EOS 80D review
• Create Custom Settings To Improve Your Shooting
• Guide To Long Exposure Photography Using ND Filters
• This YouTube Channel is All About DIY Repairs on Cameras and Lenses
• Spot the Golden Ratio Anywhere with This Nifty Pocket-Sized Card
• Understanding the Advanced Multi-Hybrid Viewfinder on the X-Pro2 – The Fujifilm Blog

Creativity

• 5 Things Not To Forget When Planning For Black And White…
• How to Use a Reflector and Diffuser to Enhance Flower Photographs
• Have Nothing To Photograph? Abstract Photography Is Everywhere…
• Jess Pollock’s Double Exposures Convey Creative Experimentation
• How to light close-up product shots at home simply and easily
• How to Use Bracketing to get Your Best Shot – 3 Different Methods
• How to Understand the Mysteries of ISO for Beginners

Miscellaneous

• Photographer finds 1200 rolls of unprocessed film from 1950s
• Spectacular Drone Photos Capture the Beauty of Australia’s Landscape
• Exploring the Iconic Buzludzha Communist Building in Bulgaria

Software

• The Beginners Guide to Lightroom Presets
• Phase One Releases Capture One 9.2
• FAQ: Photoshop CC 2015.5 now available
• Select and Mask Taskspace in Photoshop CC (15.5)
• The Content Aware Crop Tool in Photoshop CC (15.5)
• New Typographic Features in Photoshop CC (15.5)
• A New Photoshop Is Here!
• Use Photoshop to Correct Perspective Distortion of Buildings in Your Images
• Solution: Photoshop 2015-5 Missing Plugins
• Instant Replay: Lightroom’s Book Module with Scott Kelby

Gear

• Macro Photography on a Budget: An introduction to Close-up Filters
• Use Welder’s Glass as a $1 ND Filter for Long Exposures in Daylight
• Quick Tip: Upgrade Your Camera Bag Zippers for Just a Few Bucks
• Field Review: The Platypod Max
• How TTL Flash Metering Works
• Review: DSLRKIT 1.08x-1.60x Zoom Viewfinder Eyepiece Magnifier

Creativity

• Learn Ansel Adams’ Biggest Secret for Stunning Photography – Visualization
• How to Create a Strong Composition by Centring the Subject
• How To Capture Action Shots of Waves
• Photos of Vivian the Giant Wiener Dog
• These Photos of Space Are Created Using Food and a Photo Scanner
• Ansel Adams Shares the Story Behind One of His Most Famous Photographs
• Beware the Golden Myth of Photography
• A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO
• Building a Story Through Composite Photography

Miscellaneous

• Drone Photos Capture the Stark Divide Between Rich and Poor in South Africa
• The Macro Bug Portraits of Ronny Overhate Will Make You Happy
• How to Prevent Piracy Of Your Images
• Walker Evans’ Reflections on His Great Depression Photos
• Wait! You Nearly Forgot To Check Out These Photography Links

Software

• Total Beginner’s Guide to Lightroom
• How to Make a Moody Desaturated Image in Lightroom
• How to reduce noise and more easily work with “Blend if” layer sliders in Photoshop CC
• This is what your histogram is for and how to use it
• Think Exif Data Is Boring Or Irrelevant? This Will Surprise You
• The Dangers of Synchronize Folder in Lightroom
• 3 Methods for Converting to Black and White Using Photoshop
• How to Enhance Urban Night Photographs Using Luminosity Masks in Photoshop
• Don’t Get Stuck on the Rule of Thirds – Lightroom Has a Lot More to Offer
• Blending Layer Groups in Photoshop
• Clipping Masks in Photoshop
• Use Lightroom to Paint with Light
• How to Reduce Noise Only in Shadows Using Photoshop’s ‘Blend If’

Gear

• Why You Should Use Back-Button AF on Nikon DSLRs
• Review: Lensbaby Twist 60 f2.5 (Canon EF)
• Tips For Softening Your On-Camera Flash

Creativity

• Blending star trails with light-painting portraits
• On the Creative Thought Process Behind a Photograph
• How to Use the Zone System to Learn about Metering and Exposure Compensation
• How to photograph under moonlight and calculate long exposure times
• Are Your Black And White Landscapes Looking Dull? Not Anymore…
• Converging Parallels – A Powerful Composition Tool

Miscellaneous

• Glow worms turn New Zealand cave into starry night and I spent past year photographing it
• Ask The Right Questions…To Learn Better Photography
• The Differing Goals of Different Camera Companies
• Photoshop is Photography; and This is Why
• 3 Animated Shorts About the Lives of 3 Early Photographers

Software

• The Answer to the Most Common Confusion About Lightroom
• What’s New in Lightroom 6.6 and CC 2015.6
• Adobe Releases Lightroom Update With New “Guided Upright” Lens Correction Feature
• Lightroom Printing: The Easy Way To Put Your Image Right Where You Want It On The Page
• 4 Batch Processing Techniques to Speed Up Your Workflow in Lightroom
• How to Straighten Crooked Images Fast Using Lightroom
• Playing Single Commands in Actions in Photoshop
• How do I restore some of the photos from my backup Lightroom catalog?

Gear

• Fujifilm Fuji X70 review
• Tiny Creatures Cause Almost $3,000 in Damage to Photographer’s Gear
• Going Fast. Why You Should Have At Least One Fast Lens
• This Kit Will Help You Get Perfect Water Drop Photographs, But They Need Help
• Get To Know Your Camera’s Buttons & Dials With Ease
• How to Manually Focus a Lens
• The Pentax K-70 is a Rugged DSLR with Hybrid AF and Pixel Shift

Creativity

• 28 Ethereal Images of a Transparent Subject – Glass
• 5 Tips to Help Get Yourself Out of a Photography Rut
• This photographer specialises in liquids to produce amazing images
• Let’s Have Some Fun…With Movement Photography
• 12 Tips for how to compose creative shots
• A Look at How One Zoom Lens Can Tell Three Stories
• Basic Camera Controls – The Shutter
• How One Photographer Captures Time Passing in a Single Photo
• Liquid: a Series of Creative Polaroid Photos

Miscellaneous

• Strange and Familiar: In Conversation – Bruce Gilden and Martin Parr
• Canon USA launches new online photography courses: Digital Photography Review
• Why Envy Any Other Photographer?
• Dramatic photos reveal what Paris looks like submerged in flood
• Death Photography: The Roots of Portrait Photography
• Seven Inspiring Quotes from Timeless Photographers
• Brides Request this 9-Year-Old Wedding Photographer by Name
• Astrophotographer Exposes Cape Town Through New Images
• Is the Most Famous Photography of Africa Fueling Stigmas? | Fstoppers

Software

• To Process or Not To Process? Let’s Discuss
• Adding texture easily to your backgrounds in Photoshop
• A Short Course in Automating Photoshop
• Using Variables in Photoshop
• Button Mode in Photoshop
• Assigning F-keys and Color Coding Actions in Photoshop
• Review: MacPhun Tonality
• Use The Details Tab in Lightroom Like The Pros Do
• Photoshop Trick: Adjusting Perspective in Just a Small Piece of Your Photo
• Photoshop: Healing Brush Tips
• Automatically Generate XMP Files in Lightroom
• How to Use Content-Aware Scale in Photoshop
• Lightroom: Oooops, how do I undo?
• How to Use Content-Aware Scale in Photoshop
• Effectively Creating the Warm Backlight Look in Adobe Lightroom

The following three from Martin Osner via an email from Nettie.

• Photoshop Creative Cloud – Getting Started
• RAW File Processing (Introduction)
• RAW File Processing (Part 2)

Gear

• Does the Camera Matter? SLR versus Mirrorless versus Smartphone
• Does Your Camera Even Matter?
• How to Build a DIY Double Water Drip System for High Speed Photos

Creativity

• Looking Sharp: A focus stacking tutorial
• 25 Stunning Images that Show Next to Nothing – Minimalism
• The Not-So-Obvious Reason for Using HDR
• Lighting Design the Easy Way – Secrets of the Inverse-Square Law of Light
• Everything you ever needed to know about shutter speed
• What the heck is hyperfocal distance?
• Manually Set Your White Balance For Accurate Color
• Central Park Turns Cotton Candy Pink in These ‘Infrared’ Photos
• The World’s Largest Tintypes, Created with Room-Sized Cameras

Miscellaneous

• Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese Americans’ imprisonment during WW2
• 7 Commonly Accepted Photography Beliefs Debunked
• 1958 Documentary About the Single Most Influential Landscape Photographer

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