#learn lightroom

[transgenderer]

holly 435 herself

[choomboy]

One of my goals for 2024 is to get good at taking pictures, videos and editing. This is a quick shot in the living room. Lighting felt nice. 🤙🏽

Frodo Baggins & The One Ring

[starfry]

[gametastic-photography]

I really got nothing today so here's a preview of today's edit.

I have a bunch of wonderful photos in my queue, but with this learning curve of learning Lightroom Classic, it might take a while to get out photos since I'm taking this from a more professional standpoint opposed to just a hobby.

I still have a lot of learning to do as well.

My photos that are already edited go till like 10 days from now. 2 posts or so a day and weekends being highlights/posts I find better. And now everything is queued to schedule at night, as it seems most people interacting have been doing so while I sleep.

I want to thank you for supporting my work! Whether you do or not, it makes me pleased to see people interact, and there is still enjoyment in this fandom for the characters, the ships, the world, everything. I enjoy reblogs and comments the most. I would love to hear what you have to say rather than just simply pressing a like button. (Don't worry, I get it, I lurk too) but if you enjoy my work, please tell me. Your comments (even in tags) give me that extra push to know im doing good.

I will try to make people happy, even though if a post has one reblog. that means someone said 'hey I like this enough to put on my page'

my blog is going through alot of changes in the past week and it all depends on my mood and whether I finally decided on something or not (Like reblogging on diferent blog) So I apologize for randomly deleted posts and so on. Memes are not such a 'me' thing. I hope you understand.

[alasarys]

[peggy-uwu]

bought a new phone bc my old one is fucked, and a 2TB hardrive for my pc so i can have more than Genshin + (3) Other Applications on my computer

[inflammatory]

:))))))

[consolecadet]

Despite my complaints about After Effects, I am sort of animating some things. This would be much easier if I had Illustrator but I am not willing to shell out any more subscription money to Adobe

[eliza-dearest]

Remote job search can also be: "This job is listed as requiring so many years of experience in a highly specific field. You wanna help edit our crossword section? It's a senior level position and you must have 3 years of puzzle making skills. No? How about a volunteer position where it says "THIS IS NOT A JOB" in the description. No? How about a sketchy looking startup that has way too many employees to possibly sustain itself? Fellowships? Must be studying under an accreditted university for the entirety of the internship. This fellowship pays more than most retail positions. How would you like to work on a cruise ship doing menial labor? You must have 2 years in data entry experience with our custom software."

Trying to look for a remote job is like "Here's a job as a transcriber! It's 60 cents an hour and if you fuck up once you dont get paid at all. No? Here's a job as a customer service agent! No benefits, you must be avaliable 24/7 and it's $7.25 an hour. Neither of those work for you? How about this MLM that you need to take a $200 class to 'train' before you can start?"

[belecoubis]

I like photography. I think that it's amazing that we can capture a moment in time and keep it. I also got used to learning something new every once in a while. So I thought of merging both together. Pictures and facts.

Pictures here are all taken by me.

I'll also try to add the references for any facts I get.

I'm new to tumblr so if anyone has any recommendations please share them :)

[pixelridz]

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[harshkshitijvivan]

A common order is to start with exposure, then contrast, then white balance, then saturation, then color balance, and then secondary corrections

[goldustphoto]

[chadsawyerphotography]

How I edit With Adobe Lightroom while traveling and shooting Astrophotography

[ms-demeanor]

Why reblog machine-generated art?

When I was ten years old I took a photography class where we developed black and white photos by projecting light on papers bathed in chemicals. If we wanted to change something in the image, we had to go through a gradual, arduous process called dodging and burning.

When I was fifteen years old I used photoshop for the first time, and I remember clicking on the clone tool or the blur tool and feeling like I was cheating.

When I was twenty eight I got my first smartphone. The phone could edit photos. A few taps with my thumb were enough to apply filters and change contrast and even spot correct. I was holding in my hand something more powerful than the huge light machines I'd first used to edit images.

When I was thirty six, just a few weeks ago, I took a photo class that used Lightroom Classic and again, it felt like cheating. It made me really understand how much the color profiles of popular web images I'd been seeing for years had been pumped and tweaked and layered with local edits to make something that, to my eyes, didn't much resemble photography. To me, photography is light on paper. It's what you capture in the lens. It's not automatic skin smoothing and a local filter to boost the sky. This reminded me a lot more of the photomanipulations my friend used to make on deviantart; layered things with unnatural colors that put wings on buildings or turned an eye into a swimming pool. It didn't remake the images to that extent, obviously, but it tipped into the uncanny valley. More real than real, more saturated more sharp and more present than the actual world my lens saw. And that was before I found the AI assisted filters and the tool that would identify the whole sky for you, picking pieces of it out from between leaves.

You know, it's funny, when people talk about artists who might lose their jobs to AI they don't talk about the people who have already had to move on from their photo editing work because of technology. You used to be able to get paid for basic photo manipulation, you know? If you were quick with a lasso or skilled with masks you could get a pretty decent chunk of change by pulling subjects out of backgrounds for family holiday cards or isolating the pies on the menu for a mom and pop. Not a lot, but enough to help. But, of course, you can just do that on your phone now. There's no need to pay a human for it, even if they might do a better job or be more considerate toward the aesthetic of an image.

And they certainly don't talk about all the development labs that went away, or the way that you could have trained to be a studio photographer if you wanted to take good photos of your family to hang on the walls and that digital photography allowed in a parade of amateurs who can make dozens of iterations of the same bad photo until they hit on a good one by sheer volume and luck; if you want to be a good photographer everyone can do that why didn't you train for it and spend a long time taking photos on film and being okay with bad photography don't you know that digital photography drove thousands of people out of their jobs.

My dad told me that he plays with AI the other day. He hosts a movie podcast and he puts up thumbnails for the downloads. In the past, he'd just take a screengrab from the film. Now he tells the Bing AI to make him little vignettes. A cowboy running away from a rhino, a dragon arm-wrestling a teddy bear. That kind of thing. Usually based on a joke that was made on the show, or about the subject of the film and an interest of the guest.

People talk about "well AI art doesn't allow people to create things, people were already able to create things, if they wanted to create things they should learn to create things." Not everyone wants to make good art that's creative. Even fewer people want to put the effort into making bad art for something that they aren't passionate about. Some people want filler to go on the cover of their youtube video. My dad isn't going to learn to draw, and as the person who he used to ask to photoshop him as Ant-Man because he certainly couldn't pay anyone for that kind of thing, I think this is a great use case for AI art. This senior citizen isn't going to start cartooning and at two recordings a week with a one-day editing turnaround he doesn't even really have the time for something like a Fiverr commission. This is a great use of AI art, actually.

I also know an artist who is going Hog Fucking Wild creating AI art of their blorbos. They're genuinely an incredibly talented artist who happens to want to see their niche interest represented visually without having to draw it all themself. They're posting the funny and good results to a small circle of mutuals on socials with clear information about the source of the images; they aren't trying to sell any of the images, they're basically using them as inserts for custom memes. Who is harmed by this person saying "i would like to see my blorbo lasciviously eating an ice cream cone in the is this a pigeon meme"?

The way I use machine-generated art, as an artist, is to proof things. Can I get an explosion to look like this. What would a wall of dead computer monitors look like. Would a ballerina leaping over the grand canyon look cool? Sometimes I use AI art to generate copyright free objects that I can snip for a collage. A lot of the time I use it to generate ideas. I start naming random things and seeing what it shows me and I start getting inspired. I can ask CrAIon for pose reference, I can ask it to show me the interior of spaces from a specific angle.

I profoundly dislike the antipathy that tumblr has for AI art. I understand if people don't want their art used in training pools. I understand if people don't want AI trained on their art to mimic their style. You should absolutely use those tools that poison datasets if you don't want your art included in AI training. I think that's an incredibly appropriate action to take as an artist who doesn't want AI learning from your work.

However I'm pretty fucking aggressively opposed to copyright and most of the "solid" arguments against AI art come down to "the AIs viewed and learned from people's copyrighted artwork and therefore AI is theft rather than fair use" and that's a losing argument for me. In. Like. A lot of ways. Primarily because it is saying that not only is copying someone's art theft, it is saying that looking at and learning from someone's art can be defined as theft rather than fair use.

Also because it's just patently untrue.

But that doesn't really answer your question. Why reblog machine-generated art? Because I liked that piece of art.

It was made by a machine that had looked at billions of images - some copyrighted, some not, some new, some old, some interesting, many boring - and guided by a human and I liked it. It was pretty. It communicated something to me. I looked at an image a machine made - an artificial picture, a total construct, something with no intrinsic meaning - and I felt a sense of quiet and loss and nostalgia. I looked at a collection of automatically arranged pixels and tasted salt and smelled the humidity in the air.

I liked it.

I don't think that all AI art is ugly. I don't think that AI art is all soulless (i actually think that 'having soul' is a bizarre descriptor for art and that lacking soul is an equally bizarre criticism). I don't think that AI art is bad for artists. I think the problem that people have with AI art is capitalism and I don't think that's a problem that can really be laid at the feet of people curating an aesthetic AI art blog on tumblr.

Machine learning isn't the fucking problem the problem is massive corporations have been trying hard not to pay artists for as long as massive corporations have existed (isn't that a b-plot in the shape of water? the neighbor who draws ads gets pushed out of his job by product photography? did you know that as recently as ten years ago NewEgg had in-house photographers who would take pictures of the products so users wouldn't have to rely on the manufacturer photos? I want you to guess what killed that job and I'll give you a hint: it wasn't AI)

Am I putting a human out of a job because I reblogged an AI-generated "photo" of curtains waving in the pale green waters of an imaginary beach? Who would have taken this photo of a place that doesn't exist? Who would have painted this hypersurrealistic image? What meaning would it have had if they had painted it or would it have just been for the aesthetic? Would someone have paid for it or would it be like so many of the things that artists on this site have spent dozens of hours on only to get no attention or value for their work?

My worst ratio of hours to notes is an 8-page hand-drawn detailed ink comic about getting assaulted at a concert and the complicated feelings that evoked that took me weeks of daily drawing after work with something like 54 notes after 8 years; should I be offended if something generated from a prompt has more notes than me? What does that actually get the blogger? Clout? I believe someone said that popularity on tumblr gets you one thing and that is yelled at.

What do you get out of this? Are you helping artists right now? You're helping me, and I'm an artist. I've wanted to unload this opinion for a while because I'm sick of the argument that all Real Artists think AI is bullshit. I'm a Real Artist. I've been paid for Real Art. I've been commissioned as an artist.

And I find a hell of a lot of AI art a lot more interesting than I find human-generated corporate art or Thomas Kincaid (but then, I repeat myself).

There are plenty of people who don't like AI art and don't want to interact with it. I am not one of those people. I thought the gay sex cats were funny and looked good and that shitposting is the ideal use of a machine image generation: to make uncopyrightable images to laugh at.

I think that tumblr has decided to take a principled stand against something that most people making the argument don't understand. I think tumblr's loathing for AI has, generally speaking, thrown weight behind a bunch of ideas that I think are going to be incredibly harmful *to artists specifically* in the long run.

Anyway. If you hate AI art and you don't want to interact with people who interact with it, block me.

[docstainstitute]

As an aspiring graphic artist, you understand the importance of creating visually stunning designs. But did you know that there are certain principles of design that can guide you in creating effective visuals that communicate your message clearly? In this blog post, we'll explore the principles of design and how you can use them to take your design skills to the next level.

Balance :

Balance refers to the distribution of visual weight in a design. Achieving balance can make your design feel more cohesive and visually appealing. There are two types of balance: symmetrical and asymmetrical. Symmetrical balance occurs when elements on both sides of a design are mirrored or identical, while asymmetrical balance is achieved through the use of different elements that balance each other out.

Contrast :

Contrast is the juxtaposition of different elements in a design. This can be achieved through the use of color, shape, size, and texture. Contrast can add visual interest and make certain elements stand out. However, it's important to use contrast thoughtfully, as too much can overwhelm the viewer.

Repetition :

Repetition refers to the use of the same visual elements throughout a design. This can create a sense of unity and consistency, which can be especially important in branding and marketing materials. However, too much repetition can make a design feel monotonous, so it's important to balance it with other design elements.

Hierarchy :

Hierarchy refers to the organization of elements in a design, with more important elements given more visual weight. This can be achieved through the use of size, color, placement, and typography. Hierarchy can help guide the viewer's eye through the design and communicate important information effectively.

Alignment :

Alignment refers to the placement of elements in a design. Aligning elements can create a sense of order and balance, making the design feel more cohesive. However, it's important to be consistent with alignment throughout the design, as even small deviations can be jarring to the viewer.

Proximity :

Proximity refers to the placement of elements in relation to each other. Grouping related elements together can create a sense of unity and organization in a design. However, it's important to balance proximity with contrast, as too much grouping can make a design feel cluttered.

Now that you have an understanding of the principles of design, how can you apply them to your work? Here are a few tips:

1. Start with a strong concept : Before you begin designing, think about what message you want to communicate and who your audience is. This will help guide your design choices and ensure that your work is effective.

2. Use a grid system : A grid system can help you achieve balance and alignment in your designs. Many design software programs offer grid tools that you can use to guide your placement of elements.

3. Experiment with color, shape, and typography : These elements can be used to create contrast and hierarchy in your designs. Don't be afraid to try different combinations and see what works best.

4. Get feedback : Show your work to others and ask for constructive criticism. This can help you identify areas for improvement and refine your design skills.

By understanding and applying the principles of design, you can create visually stunning work that communicates your message effectively. Whether you're creating branding materials for a business, designing a website, or simply creating art, these principles can guide you in creating work that stands out and captures your audience's attention.

The principles of design are an essential part of any graphic artist's toolkit. By mastering these principles, you can create work that is visually appealing, communicates effectively, and stands out in a crowded marketplace. So take some time to experiment with these principles in your own work, and see how they can help you take your design skills to the next level.