Tilt-shift lens vs perspective correction in Photoshop / Lightroom
Tilt-shift lens vs perspective correction in Photoshop / Lightroom
Using the Lens Correction / Transform tools in Lightroom and Photoshop, you can make quite radical changes to the perspective of a photo. You can change and skew the vertical and horizontal lines easily, and convincingly. Since it is now much easier to to correct for leaning vertical lines when photographing buildings with a wide-angle lens, I thought it would be a good comparison to use a Tilt-Shift lens and optically correct for the verticals, versus doing so in Photoshop or Lightroom. For comparison images, I Read more inside...Backblaze – An affordable online back-up system
Backblaze - Online backup system for your data
Backblaze is part of my back-up system which I use to ensure that data loss won't happen. It is important to have your files backed-up to the cloud, and on extra hard drives at home or the office. Ideally a RAID array of some kind so you don't rely on a single hard drive. I want my data backed-up on a RAID array with redundant hard drives. For this, I use Drobos with dual redundancy. It is crucial to have off-site back-ups of your files that are continually updated as you work. Backblaze is so easy to use, and so affordable, that there Read more inside...My hard drive has died – what should I do?
My hard drive has died – what should I do?
"My hard drive has died – what should I do right now!? I don't know what to do!" These were the sounds the angry woman next to me at the Apple Store counter made, while crying about her hard disc that had died. "But it was fine this morning!" My sympathy was more with the blue-shirted geniuses who took her anger with a calmness that was impressive. My sympathy for her? Well, I just thought to myself, "Now here is someone who doesn't understand the concept of single point of failure." Back your data up, all the time. Constantly. Read more inside...Off-site data storage & back-up options – File Transporter