It’s been a while since the Plotagraph website disappeared from the web. I guess it’s gone for good now. Shame. It was fun while it lasted!

I met with my old friend Stephan Bollinger recently for a chat all things Trey. Want to know what I’ve been up to, and some future plans? Then click the vid below… it was a fun convo!

If you’ve missed it, Adobe has now brought “real” HDR to image processing, taking it past the tone-mapping that we’re all used to. (Think of this version of HDR more like the HDR you see when watching content on Netflix/Prime, etc where you need a HDR display to properly see it.) Check out their blog entry explaining it all over here.

If you missed the newsletter over the weekend (or the post yesterday about it) then you may have missed the recent Luminar news. So here it is… In a past newsletter, I talked a little bit about how my main workflow has moved away from Aurora HDR to Luminar Neo, now that it has HDR functionality available. That has continued to be the case and every image you saw in recent blog posts was processed on Luminar Neo. It’s a great bit of software and it has been interesting to watch it evolve. Most recently Skylum (finally!) added panorama functionality which removes yet another reason to stick with alternate software. You should definitely check it out. 🙂

Here’s a quick and fun review of Luminar Neo! You can use the code TREY10 to get $10 off the yearly or lifetime plans. For those of you who are existing Aurora HDR users, that entitles you to grab the HDR extension for Neo with special pricing, depending on the version you have and for some of you that might even mean free! Just be sure to sign up for Neo with the same email you used to register Aurora HDR to get access to the best pricing. 🙂

Before we begin, here’s an image I’ve produced with Neo to get you in the mood…

And now on with the review (click here)…

Grab Them Before They’re Gone Forever.

Here’s a pretty wild offer for you…

I’ve spent a number of years building a massive library of photography presets, video tutorials and eBooks and more which sell for well over $750 if added together. Now, for a short time, you can get all of them in one mega bundle for just $24.99 (the normal-ish price for one preset pack). After a limited time, this will rise to $49.99 and then maybe after that they’ll all disappear from the store forever. So get them while you can!

As always I’ll be throwing in my RAW files with the tutorials so you can follow along and also bundled in there are things like my high-res textures which you can use as you please for post-processing. Maybe you’ll find a few surprises in there too. So, check out the link for a detailed rundown of the contents before they disappear forever.

A question for the photographers amongst you… where does Flickr fit into your life? I was thinking about this today regarding my own little chunk of the photography world and really I don’t use it in any useful way. Maybe I should? What am I missing that has been added in recent times (since SmugMug bought it?). I see from the banner on my profile that they’ve added “Virtual Photography” as a category which seems to be sharing game screenshots. Kinda weird (and I say that as a gamer!).