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#Focus magic lightroom software#
#Focus magic lightroom trial#
#Focus magic lightroom professional#

This allows the photographer to emphasize one area while downplaying the rest. Selective focus is used to sharpen one area of the photo while the remaining areas are softly and gradually blurred. But what happens if you reach post-processing and want to create a selective focus effect? As wedding photographer Trevor Dayley demonstrates in the video below, it’s actually quite simple: There are a number of ways to do this while taking the shot: using leading lines, controlling the depth of field, using a tilt shift lens, etc. If you want to use the Focus Magic plugin for Photoshop, you can, but it takes extra steps.One of the most important aspects in composing a great photo lies in directing the viewer’s eye to exactly the place we want to highlight. The file will upload to smugmug.įocus Magic is a fantastic program. Drag it and drop it into your browser’s smugmug ‘add file’ drag and drop interface. Continue reading v4.2, v4.1 Nik Collection.

#Focus magic lightroom professional#

The plug-in suite is suitable for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture (replaced by Apple Photos).With it, we can quickly complete many professional photo editing effects with ease.

#Focus magic lightroom software#

Open my photo site (on smugmug) in my browser and select ‘add files.’ Then, right click on the photo in Library module and select “show in explorer.” Now you have a folder open with that photo selected. Focus Magic is software that uses advanced forensic strength deconvolution technology to literally undo blur, recovering lost detail from images/photos. Nik Collection is a powerful and professional plug-in set for photo post-processing, composed of 7 image processing plug-ins for different purposes.

If you read from disk, you will get the blanked out metadata fields that Focus Magic erases on every photo it fixes.

You want to “overwrite” not “read from disk.” If you overwrite, you will put your comments, keywords, GPS, descriptions, titles and all of your other metadata back in place on this photo that was fixed in Focus Magic. It says that an external program changed the metadata and what do I want to do. The metadata icon on the photo indicates a problem (marked with a “!”).

Go back into Lighroom and find the just-corrected photo.

In Focus Magic, make corrections and then save the photo.

Automatically open Focus Magic with the affected photo.

Use the “open in other application” feature at the end of export, and set this to the Focus Magic exe file.

Export as JPEG at 90% quality to a directory on my hard drive.

90% of the time I use the one preset for export and upload that does this:

Export using my special export presets.

I can sort on green and yellow flags using my smartfolders in the collections section.

#Focus magic lightroom trial#

The shareware version costs 65 for a lifetime registration, the trial does not watermark the output. The filters are focus, fix motion blur, defocus, increase resolution and despeckle. If I’m not going to export the photo right now, then I just leave the flag as yellow. Focus Magic is quite a well known shareware refocusing program and offers a number of filters to enhance or even degraded your image if you want. That workflow is different, not included here, and diverges from this point. I then break out into special processing like HDR or for stock photos if the candidate looks promising. Mark each with a yellow flag when done in the Develop module. X (reject) the duds (90% of the duds are blurry or just poor composition). Automatically save DNGs to directories sorted by date and add to the folder list. Automatically apply copyright notice using special preset during import.

Import RAW, convert to DNG, copy each image to a back-up hard drive while importing.

The part that is different from my standard Lightroom workflow is shown in bold. I just wanted to expedite the process since I shoot sports for the school paper on Wednesday, then I have maybe 30 minutes max (during dinner) to sort them all. I’m not going to show you each detail, but all the information you need will be in here. Lightroom + Out of Focus in RAW, Post Processing & Printing. Please use it whole or in part as you need. I also use Lightroom first and have integrated Focus Magic into my workflow shown below. When I have a photo that needs to be corrected for focus or motion blur, I use the stand-alone version of Focus Magic.