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Split-view of a river harbor showing a sunset with warm glow on the left and cool, bright daylight on the right.

Gradient Map – Powerful tool to improve the post-processing of your photos

Here is a tool that I discovered a while ago – gradient map. I was watching a video with a technique for character drawing and there was a way to colour them with the gradient map tool. After using it for a couple of my drawings, I decided to try it out on my photos as well.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use gradient maps. This is an extremely powerful tool which can help you to fix some errors or just make the photographs more appealing.

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Photography composition tips on a street photograph

THE photography composition tip you need to improve your photos: less is more

I thought a lot about how to improve the composition in my portrait photography. Not seeing enough progress with all those fancy techniques, I gave up and tried to focus on something else. Unexpectedly, the solution came from outside photography. Looking closely at famous paintings, I finally understood what was wrong with my composition…

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