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.
Photo Locations – Scotland Pt 1
The aim is to create a series of Location and Natural Information Sheets that visitors and photographers can download and keep for reference. They are based on the old ‘counties’ of Scotland, as the current divisions are so large as to be unmanageable for the aims of our projects.
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15 Common Camera Lens Types
Unpack the essentials of photography optics with this straightforward guide to 15 familiar camera lens types. Lens terminology can feel confusing—focal length, angle of view, and physical form often overlap, meaning a single lens can be both a prime and a wide-angle, or a telephoto zoom. This guide cuts through technical clutter by organizing lenses into clear functional categories, explaining focal length markings in millimeters, and clarifying how sensor formats influence your field of view. Whether you are building your first camera kit or expanding your visual palette, discover how each lens shapes perspective, depth, and creative potential.
Read more15 Common Scottish Seabirds
Scotland’s shores host around 24 regularly breeding seabird species. This guide selects 15 familiar of the more species found at colonies or along the coast.
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USING ON1 Effects 2026 Filters
Start with Essentials for core tone, colour, detail and finishing adjustments. Move to Creative when you want a deliberate look—such as film grain, LUT grading, blur, textures or double exposure. Use Landscape filters for atmosphere and environmental impact, including HDR Look, Sunshine and Weather. Legacy collects older, more specialised effects.
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ON1 Effects 2026 Getting Started
Individual filters remain visible in the Effects stack, where their settings can be inspected and changed.
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Luminar Update due 28/10/26
Skylum has officially released Luminar Version 1.29.0 (designated as the Fall Upgrade 2026, launching October 28, 2026). This update marks a significant milestone, following Skylum’s strategic decision to retire the “Neo” suffix and consolidate its product line under the singular brand name Luminar.
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B & W Lite -updated
B & W Lite is a streamlined, offline image processing FOUNDATION tool designed to help beginners understand how to convert photographs into monochrome masterpieces using a precise, unified transformation engine.
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Lumatic LAB Colour Picker – update
Similar to Adobe’s Photoshop Colour Picker and has saved us quite a lot of time when creating the website and documenting our apps.
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ChatGPT understands ON 1
The UPDATED Interactive Image Analyst , a FREE browser-based diagnostic tool designed by LumaticLAB to help photographers identify technical flaws supports the further development of the basic editing .
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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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Lumatic Lab – The ACO Convertor – updated
Unlike generic editors, this standalone tool allows you to transform any Adobe Swatch into a professional-grade 3D LUT (.cube). It’s lightweight, fast, and engineered specifically for power users who demand precision on any device, including Chromebooks.
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Fern Fiddleheads
Fern Fiddleheads – Never eat raw: Eating raw or undercooked fiddleheads causes acute stomach sickness, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea..
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Editing Autumn (Fall) Colours
Photographers can enhance their Autumn (Fall) images in the field by utilizing specialized filters like circular polarizers to reduce glare, neutral-density filters for long exposures of moving water, and graduated filters to balance bright skies with darker foregrounds. To achieve a luminous glowing effect, practitioners can either position foliage directly between the camera and the sun for natural backlighting or employ advanced digital editing workflows.
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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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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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Adobe 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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AI Photo-editing
Can AI learn your editing style and then edit a raw file in Lightroom using the same sliders and masks.
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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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