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Aug 30
3 min

5 Tips for better Black & White editing

A minimalism black and white photo can be interesting, but the way editing it is quite different from usual photos of Landscape or Astro. Here’re some of the adjustments I usually make when processing a black and white photo, and I hope these tips will help you in improving your photos. Without wasting any more time, let’s start with the first tip. 😀 Tip #1 – Edit the sky separately Have you ever wondered why the sky in those Black and White photos is always darker than the

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May 7, 2021
3 min

6 Tips For Better Colour Enhancement

Colour enhancement can be a huge thing in post-processing, and it is not just about saturating the colours on your photo. Although many people tend to boost up colours using either the Saturation/Vibrance adjustments on Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you can easily overcook your photo and create an unbearable colour. So how can we boost up the colour without oversaturating our photo and keep the look natural? Here are some colour adjustment tricks. 1. Decide the primary colour

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Jun 17, 2020
1 min

Create a better composition with digital blending

On this video, I will talk about how to use the Digital Blending technique to create a better composition. Digital blending can be very powerful. In fact, advanced techniques like Time Blending and Luminosity Masking are also one of the ways of using Digital Blending. With a bit of creativeness, you can combine light trails, adding multiple fireworks into a single photo or removing tourists (Which I will share in the future). Other than Digital Blending, I will also talk abou

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Jun 17, 2020
1 min

How to remove any unwanted subject from your photo

Imagine that when you are photographing a scene at a popular location, there are tourists everywhere, and you are not able to get a clean shot without them in your frame. What would you do? You move to another place and change your composition, or you can try to remove the tourist from your photo in Post-processing. In this video, I’m going to share with you a few techniques on removing any unwanted subjects on your photo. 🙂 Join our Photography Masterclass Community & impro

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Apr 29, 2020
1 min

Post-processing Workflow for Landscape Photography

Here’s my end-to-end post-processing workflow when editing a landscape photo. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas in creating your own one too. 🙂 Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please feel free to share this post if you enjoy reading it! :) #website #highpass #size #luminositymasks #facebooksize #landscapephotography #photoshopcc #luminositymask #sharpe

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Apr 23, 2020
1 min

How to sharpen your photo for social media and web

So that your photos will look great on Facebook, Instagram and your website. Without wasting any more time, here’s the video. Download the Web Sharpening Action for Adobe Photoshop As mentioned in the video, here’s the Web Sharpening action that I created. Installing GreyChow Web Sharpening Action To install the action pack, please perform the following actions Unzip the downloaded GreyChow Web Sharpening.zip file. Double click on GreyChow Web Sharpening.atn file, this will a

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Apr 13, 2020
1 min

How to blend lights into a photo

On this video, I will share how to blend the lights from photos that took at different times. The video also shows other adjustments that I make to produce the outcome photo. You can download the RAW files that I used in the video. So that you can learn better by following the steps. Download GreyChow LM Action Pack Installing GreyChow LM Action Pack To install the action pack, please perform the following actions Unzip the downloaded GreyChow LM Action Pack.zip file. Double

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Apr 7, 2020
1 min

How to create Luminosity Masks

As promised, here is how to create all the Luminosity Masks manually without using my “GreyChow LM action pack”. *Correction: To subtract a channel, it should be “Cmd + Opt + Click” on Mac not “Cmd + Alt + Click”. To understand the basic of the Luminosity Masking and Exposure Recovery: For a more advanced way of using Luminosity Masking: If you want to download the “GreyChow LM Action pack”, you can get it here. Installing GreyChow LM Action Pack To install the action pack, p

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Apr 1, 2020
1 min

How to edit photos using Luminosity Masking

This is the part 2 about how to use Luminosity Masking to edit your photo. This time, I’m going to do exposure recovery using three photos with different exposures. (On the previous video, I was using only two) Also, I will share with you on a better way in finetuning the Luminosity Masks and other methods in using the Luminosity masking to make your photo more Pop. To understand the basics of the Luminosity Masking, you can check out my previous video here: Visit the page Gr

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Mar 5, 2020
1 min

Photograph the Milky Way at Tasik Beris

I always think that being able to share my actual photo shooting experience with you all would be a good idea. With that, you can understand more about the shooting condition and what camera setting that I used to take a photo. Here’s my first attempt at vlogging in the year 2020. I combined videos from my Nikon D610, iPhone 11 Pro Max and some drone footage from my friend. The edited photo was taken using Nikon Z7 + 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. There are more for me to improve in vlo

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Feb 21, 2020
1 min

Five Most Commonly Used Compositions for Landscape Photography

There are so many composition guidelines out there, isn’t that very confusing to you? To keep simple, I focus on the FIVE most commonly used Compositions that are more practical for Landscape photography. Let me know if you wish to see more videos that talk about the compositions in the future. 🙂 Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please feel free to share this

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Jan 22, 2020
1 min

Best Shooting Locations In Malaysia

To help everyone in planing their photo shooting, I have compiled a list of my favourite shooting locations in Malaysia. 🙂 If you think the video is helpful, feel free to share it with your friend. Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please feel free to share this post if you enjoy reading it! :) #putra #shooting #selangor #location #petronas #seremban #hotel #gr

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Jan 7, 2020
4 min

Photoshop Fundamental: Using Selection

In my previous blog post, I have talked about the LAYER and LAYER MASK, which are the most important fundamental in Photoshop. If you wish to master Photoshop, the next thing you should be familiar with is using SELECTION. 🙂 If you haven’t read my previous blog post and have no other about LAYER and LAYER MASK, please check out the post HERE. So that you will have a better understanding of the steps I’m going to mention later here. What is Selection? SELECTION is basically

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Dec 12, 2019
5 min

Photoshop Fundamental: Layer & Layer Mask

If you ask me, what makes Photoshop such a powerful editing software? I would say Layer & Layer Mask. It is the core of Photoshop; every editing in Photoshop are base on that. It is also the first thing you should understand if you want to learn using Photoshop. Here, I will guide you through WHAT is Layer & Layer MASK, WHY you need them, and HOW to use them. This blog post is for anyone NEW to Photoshop, so no worry if this is the first time you are using (or haven’t) Photos

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Dec 6, 2019
3 min

How I edit this photo – Okunoin Cemetery

This photo took me hours to edit this photo and even scrapped the first edited PSD file to redo the photo. I kept finetuning the photo again and again until I got the result that I wanted. Why is this photo so challenging? Or I should say it is “FUN” instead of “CHALLENGING“. 😃 It is something that I never captured and edited before. The photo is about a beautiful cemetery, and I wanted to create a dark, mysterious and yet appealing photo. I was so excited about trying that

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Oct 25, 2019
5 min

How to use ND filter for Long Exposure Photography

Last weekend sunrise outing was a huge success with more than 40 participants showed up, thank you for coming! 😀 During the outing, there were participants who wanted to know more about the filters. Because of that, I’m writing this blog post to explain further how to use ND filters. Let’s start with the WHY. Why should we use ND filters? If you are interested in creating something uncommon and not be able to see by our naked eyes, you should try out Long Exposure Photograp

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Sep 23, 2019
6 min

Camera Setting for Landscape Photography

Want to know how to decide the best CAMERA SETTING to take a photo? If you are a beginner, you may get puzzled with all the settings like ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, Exposure compensation, White Balance, etc. Making shooting in Manual mode sounds like a scary monster to you, but it can be as easy as ABC. To keep everyone life simple, I created a simple process flow to guide you in deciding your camera setting for Landscape Photography. Did I say Landscape Photography? Yes,

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Jul 9, 2019
8 min

Best Shooting Locations In Kuala Lumpur & Selangor

When I just started my photography journey, I realized it could be very challenging for finding a good location for photo shooting. To ease my fellow photographers in shooting, I have compiled some of the easy access locations into this article. Hopefully, this will help you all with better planning. On top of that, I also encourage the beginner to connect with other photographers via social media. It is more enjoyable to take photos with those who share the same passion, and

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Jun 28, 2019
7 min

Filters vs Bracketing

Filters or Bracketing? Which one should you pick? Both methods allow you to resolve the overexposed sky issues, which is the common problem that every beginner is facing in Landscape Photography. So, what’s the difference between using filters and bracketing? Which types of filter are useful in photographing the landscape? And is it really necessary for us to get a filter If we can do bracketing? I’m going to answer all these in this article. Let’s start with the filters. Fil

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Jun 18, 2019
2 min

LaCie Rugged USB-C Review

Introduction LaCie may not be a brand that is popular among the consumers, but it’s LaCie Rugged hard drive has its own niche market and is favour by lots of photographers. There are a few reasons for that, which I’m going to talk about here. In case you don’t know, LaCie is a French company owned by Seagate, which is also another company that specialises in storage drive. The one I has with me now is LaCie Rugged USB-C 1TB hard drive, let’s start the review now. The design T

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