When i Apple announced the death of Aperture, I started trying a lot of options out there. With a large library, i’m still wondering the best approach to move forward. As you know, moving from one workflow to another is rather difficult. I’m primarily an Aperture user because that’s where my master library is located. That thing makes all the difference in using these. Don't be cheap and buy the one without the custom panel. You can buy them from his website directly. The set you want to buy is the $30 “Complete Catalog of all tutorials and actions”. The better way is to buy a set of actions called “ TKActions” that TK is for Tony Kuyper. Oh, and a killer photo to start with certainly doesn't hurt! How do you make them?

You know when you look at a landscape image that has that HDR depth without that HDR feel? An impossible dynamic range that just makes you reach for a tissue to wipe the drool off your chin? That's what you can do with luminosity masks. Once created, you command-click on one of those to load it as a selection, and do any number of things to the image. These luminosity masks in Photoshop can be tedious to create… unless you have the right tools

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