September – Month in Review
This is the third ‘Month in Review’ and we’ve split it into sections so you can quickly get an overview and ‘drill down’ from there, as always feedback is welcomed.
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The Essentials, Summarized.
Autumn (Fall) Photography – Scotland
The first golds appear quietly in the birch woods of The Trossachs, and soon the beech forests of Perthshire flare into deep copper and rust, turning paths at The Hermitage, The Birks of Aberfeldy, and along the River Tummel into glowing corridors of history and light. Farther north, Glen Affric and Glen Nevis show why they are considered among the finest glens in the Highlands, with ancient pines, calm lochs, and hillsides. BTB – the deer rutting season also starts late September and runs through early November for major UK species like red and fallow deer.
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Scottish Raptors and Owls
Raptors in Scotland face many conservation threats, including illegal persecution, habitat change or loss, declining prey populations, windfarms and climate change.
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LumaticLAB Prompt Manager – Update
Managing a growing library of prompts shouldn’t feel like a chore. Today we are releasing LumaticLAB’s Prompt Manager, a sleek, browser-based organizer designed to keep your creative prompts structured and secure.
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Adobe Relight in Photoshop
Relight enables creators to place up to three interactive, non-destructive, and fully movable light sources onto an image. Instead of painting a flat digital glow, the tool recalculates ambient geometry, light attenuation, and directional shadows across the subject in real time.
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LumaticLAB Relight (POC)
LumaticLAB Relight’s non-destructive, offline-first engineering demonstrates how smart, minimal web utility design can deliver fast, private editing directly in the browser. By ditching cloud dependencies and heavy processing, it sets a clean, efficient standard AND Lower costs.
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# 1: Batch Editing in Google Gemini
Gemini’s Adobe integration focuses on high-speed conversational orchestration across Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Express, and Firefly.
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AI Prompts I
Use chat-based agents for quick first drafts, volume batching, and routine cleanup. Switch to standalone Photoshop or Lightroom desktop apps for precise channel masking, pixel-level retouching.
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5 Day Deal – Photography Bundle
This bundle will raise awareness and funds for several incredible charities, with a special spotlight on the DGL4 SHINE Foundation—supporting families impacted by a rare genetic condition close to our hearts.
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Photo-editing goes all-in AI
Can AI learn your editing style and then edit a raw file in Lightroom using the same sliders and masks.
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LUMATIC LAB: Convert ACV to LUT (FREE) – Upgrade
The application is aimed at photographers, editors and small creative teams who need a reliable way to move acv file tonal adjustments between platforms without variation.
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General Photo Editing Process
Photo editing is all about optimising your photos. You don’t have to change your pictures completely; even small basic changes / edits can improve the image effect and optimise your photo.
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LumaticLAB LUT Analysis
LumaticLAB LUT Analysis examines a common cube LUT locally in the browser. It can create a 1920 by 1080 infographic, a four-page A4 report, an enlarged diagnostic viewer, a structured AI prompt and a sort-able master CSV catalogue dependant on the User.
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Sky Swap using ChatGPT, Canva or Gemini AI
Foreground geometry and detail remain intact. • No obvious halos or cut-out edges around trees, branches or the bridge. • The replacement sky sits naturally in the scene. • Foreground light and colour respond plausibly to the new sky. • The result reads as one continuous photograph.
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Sept 2026 Affinity 3.3 Update
The September 2026 update introduces over 60 new features, focusing on finer creative control, workflow automation, and enhanced photography tools.
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ConservationLAB – update already !
ConservationLAB was created as short or vague prompts forces generative AI models to fill in missing context using statistical averages and training defaults, which frequently produces generic clichés, unpredictable compositions, or visual and factual errors.
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Virtual Summit 8 – STARTS TOMORROW
Every class in PROJECT PHOTOSHOP is project-based. Instead of simply demonstrating a collection of tools and techniques, our instructors will take you through a complete creative project from start to finish.
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ON1 2027 Announcement
ON1 2027 Announcement
** New RAW Engine for sharper detail and richer color
** Remastered NoNoise AI for cleaner detail in every shot
** New Culling Assistant in MAX – sort your best shots in seconds
** Smarter Brilliance AI for more natural auto-enhancements
** New Retouching for faster and more realistic results
** Simplified Masking – easier and faster to create and apply masks
** New Loupe & Compare to inspect faces and shots up close
Blend LAB now with added Blend-If
Take a walk through BlendLAB v1.12 to explore blend modes, tonal restrictions and RGB channels. Start with the built-in images; no upload is required. The aim is to see where a top layer can contribute and how feathering softens that boundary.
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Blend-If – Pt2-Creative Uses
Blend-If is a non-destructive, tone-based blending tool. Think of it as a smart alternative to erasing or mask painting: instead of manually removing pixels, it automatically shows or hides them based on brightness – or a specific colour channel if you prefer.
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Mastering colour attributes
Mastering colour attributes is essential for precise digital grading. Whether developing custom 3D LUTs, tweaking RAW files, or assessing values against a neutral middle-gray.
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Blend-If Sliders – Pt 1 – Background
The two Blend-If slider bars sit at the bottom. Note: a locked Background layer must be converted to a normal layer first.
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Eas-Lael-Forest
Just off the A835 on the way to Ullapool, is the beautiful and quiet forest garden with an impressive collection of trees and within it, is this rather beautiful little set of falls I’ve named Eas a’ Chadha Chòinnich (aka Mossy Ravine Cascade).
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LumaticLAB – Interactive Image Analyst – Updated
The UPDATED Interactive Image Analyst is a FREE browser-based diagnostic tool designed by LumaticLAB to help photographers identify technical flaws without altering the original file..
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Photoshop Virtual Summit 8
Listen in as instructors chat with Dave Cross about their classes at Photoshop Virtual Summit 8
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August – Month in Review
Do not forget ALL our apps will run on Chromebook Plus, are totally secure, require NO SIGN UP and have no ‘hidden’ subscriptions or paid upgrades. This is the second ‘Month in Review’ and we’ve split it into sections so you can quickly get an overview and ‘drill down’ from there.
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Adobe Camera Raw 18.6
In this latest upgrade, the primary addition is the Glow tool, which offers three distinct styles—diffusion, bloom, and halation—to create ethereal, film-like lighting effects
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Blend Modes Pt 3 – The Blend LAB App
For most digital artists, the blend mode menu is a long, intimidating list of technical jargon – the standard blend mode list contains 27 different options, a volume that frequently leads to analysis paralysis.
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Blend Modes Pt 2 – 5 for 80%
Blending modes change the way a layer reacts with the layer underneath it. To utilize a layer blend mode, a document must have at least two layers. The process involves three distinct elements – Base, Blend, Result
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Blend Modes Pt 1
Blend Modes Explained Simply. In addition to being able to edit image properties like brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation, you can also obtain additional visual effects by applying a variety of Blend Modes.
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