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that promises to bridge the gap between raw of the Year gallery is a must-see. Divided into photography times by Michael Orton, this
converters and image management software four categories (wildlife, landscapes, aerials and post processing technique has become very
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Don’t expect to learn it overnight as this is a result. Here is one photographer’s Orton Effect
powerful and necessarily complex tool. ‘recipe’ to encourage your experimentation.

Photographer co-op Appsperiments You’re Nik’d

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The COOPH (Cooperative of Photography) An ‘interaction researcher’ somewhere deep in Fans of Google’s now abandoned Nik Collection
YouTube channel was up to nearly 46.6 million the bowels of the search engine Colossus posted of photo tools will be pleased to hear that
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for instructional videos on drone photography. appsperiments. These are ‘usable and useful While the Nik tools work with older versions
Along with a video on the aforesaid topic, there mobile photography experiences built on of Photoshop and Lightroom, it is possible to
were some 50 other three- to six-minute clips experimental technology’. And they ‘rely on object run the free software in standalone mode.
on various photo topics for you to explore. recognition, person segmentation, stylization Whether or not this will continue to be possible
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decoding technologies’. Should we be afraid? not known at time of writing.

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