Western Light Photography
www.westernlightphoto.com
Hand Crafted by Stephen Jay Lunsford
Copyright 2017 - 2022 All Rights Reserved
Last Revised 2022
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** Topaz Lab's Sharpen AI: Sharpen AI is the first sharpening and shake reduction software that can tell the difference between real detail and noise. Create tack-sharp images even when you’re shooting handheld, at night, or with a shallow depth of field. Create tack-sharp images with no artifacts or halos. I added this awesome software to my digital toolbox to sharpen my photographs -- it is absolutely amazing.
** Topaz Lab's DeNoise AI: Shoot anywhere in any light with no reservations. Eliminate noise and recover crisp detail in your images with the first AI-powered noise reduction tool. I added this awesome software to my digital toolbox to denoise my photographs -- it is absolutely amazing -- takes the guess work out of the whole process.
PhotoPills: In their own words: "PhotoPills is your personal assistant in all photographic matters. It provides tasty remedies to help you answer most of the questions when planning and shooting your creative ideas". You want to know when the meteor shower or Super moon will occur? PhotoPills has it and where the best location is to photograph. I use this software to determine hyperfocal distances when out photographing. The software contains every make and model of camera/lens combination imaginalbe. Software for your iPad, iPhone or computer.
Aurora HDR Software: Aurora HDR features easy-to-use, versatile workflow for every style of HDR, and photographer of every skill level. It’s the first all-in-one HDR photo editor with native RAW support, powerful adjustments, layers, fantastic HDR photo effects, textures, presets and more.
Affinity Photo: Five years in the making, Affinity Photo redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software for the Mac and Windows. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface, with all the power and performance you need.
Affinity Designer: Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software for Mac available. Whether you’re working on branding, websites, icons, UI, or creating concept art, Affinity Designer will revolutionise how you work.
BBEdit: The leading professional HTML, coding, and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers; this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
EverWeb: Create your website visually with absolutely no restrictions. Place text, shapes, or images anywhere on your webpage canvas and EverWeb takes care of the rest! Best website building software for Apple Macintoch users!
Skylum Software: The finest photographic applications created for Macintosh!! I personally use several of their applications, most notably, Tonality, the best Black & White digital processing application on the market -- Bar None!! Their HDR application, Aurora HDR, is probably the most powerful and intuitive HDR application on the market! Their RAW/Photo editor, Luminar, is excellent as well.
Luminar: Skylum's Luminar brings you a stellar and fast native RAW processor with support for dozens of different cameras. At the same time, RAW support is just one component of Luminar’s DNA. All in all, it is a whole new world of photo editing opportunities!
PhotoMatrix HDR: Excellent HDR software, I've been using it for years. However, with that said, I think Aurora HDR by MacPhun is more intuitive and powerful.
Quad Tone RIP: Quad Tone RIP is a versatile software package that offers a simple turnkey method of printing black & white images on a variety of inkjet printers. It is both easy to use for a novice user who is just starting to print digital B&W photographs and yet powerful enough for the advanced user who wishes to customize, calibrate and profile their entire workflow. Beyond just the printing capability the product also includes several tools that allows the user to create a complete color-managed system for black & white printing. This includes making full B&W ICC profiles for both printing and soft-proofing within Photoshop or any other editing package that allows soft-proofing.
VueScan: VueScan is scanning software that can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. It can also recognize text using OCR and create multi-page pdfs using both flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders. VueScan is compatible with over 3000 different scanners on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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