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Photo Taco Podcast
Jeff Harmon, passionate hobbyist photographer, works as an Information Security professional by day and loves to break down complicated and/or technical photography topics so that the newest of photographers can understand them. No topic is too simple or too complicated for the show. If he doesn’t k...
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Photographers Buying Guide – M3 MacBook Pro
In October of 2023 Apple updated their extremely powerful line of MacBook Pro computers with M3 Apple Silicon. The size and design of the MacBook Pro...
HDR Editing in 2023 Using Lightroom and Photoshop
Adobe just finished up their annual MAX conference where they demonstrate the latest things their software can do to help content creators. This usual...
Deciding to Print Yourself
Should photographers spend the time and money to print their images themselves rather than sending their images out to printing labs? Here are 5 decis...
What is the difference between the Canon “1/2” and “3” ICC printing profiles?
Canon offers two ICC profiles specific to the printer for each type of paper. One has “1/2” in the name and the other has “3” in the name. The print q...
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Making DeNoise AI Faster
Right up front I want to set some expectations on the speed of DeNoise AI. Even on the best of computer hardware here in early 2022 DeNoise AI is not...
Help With Drive Space and Backups For Photographers
Hard Drive Space Problems for Photographers Let’s talk about the problems that photographers face with hard drive space. The more technical term for...
Dimensions and Quality For Social Media Photo Sharing
What Dimensions and Quality Should Photographers Use When Posting To Social Media? Nearly a constant debate online, I constantly get questions on the...
13 Steps To Troubleshooting Lightroom Problems
Common Lightroom Problems Lightroom is really complicated software here in early 2021. Not complicated as a tool that can help photographers get the m...
Find Your Lens Diffraction Point
What Is Diffraction In Photography? Let’s start off by very briefly defining diffraction. I want to encourage all of you to go and check out the vide...
Lens Variance vs Bad Copy
This post was heavily influenced by and will reference an excellent two part article that the great Roger Cicala published at DPReview.com in 2020. ...
Fire Full Moon – How I Shot The Moon With A Foreground
The details of how I created a picture of a full moon that includes a foreground and looks more like a sunrise than a moonrise The Creative Vision You...
What Does Apple Silicon Mean For Photographers?
No doubt you have heard that Apple made big news at their annual developer’s conference (WWDC) announcing they are moving from long-term partner Intel...
Can Canon EOS Webcam Utility Beta Do 1080p?
Chances are you are here because you are trying to figure out how to get 1080p video out of your Canon camera when used as a webcam. Canon has FINALLY...
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AMD vs Intel For Lightroom and Photoshop With Puget Systems
Puget Systems Lightroom and Photoshop Benchmarks Before we tell photographers if AMD or Intel runs Lightroom and Photoshop better, it is important to...
Intel NUC – Inexpensive Photo Editing Computer
Can the relatively inexpensive and tiny form factor Intel NUC be a good photo editing computer? The PC counterpart to Apple’s Mac Mini, this is the fi...
Slash The Import Time Of Lightroom Classic By 90%!
How To Make Lightroom Classic Import 90% Faster This is not a new topic here on Photo Taco. I have talked about this magical process, something Adobe...
Topaz DeNoise AI vs Lightroom and Photoshop
Episode Sponsors Phlearn – When Phlearn reached out I was really excited because my friend Aaron Nace and the folks over at Plearn.com produce video t...
Performance of External Drives With Lightroom Classic
Note: If you just want to skip straight to the results go to 43:19 in the episode! One of the questions I have had asked hundreds of times over the pa...
Photographer’s Checklist For Sharper Photos
Create Photography Retreat I am so excited to be presenting at the Create Photography Retreat again in 2020. It is being held in beautiful Greenville...
How To Do Water Droplet Photography With Don Komarechka
Water Droplet Refraction Photography I am sure you have seen photos featuring water droplet refraction, but you have to check out some of the images D...
Photography Lens Filters Explained!
What and Why of Lens Filters Every photographer, no matter the genre of photography they enjoy and do the most, should have a neutral density (ND) and...
Best Background for Composites
Lightroom Hardware Testing Project Update Still working on this. I know that is disappointing to many of the listeners because it meant I didn’t get...
Taking the Intimidation Out of Photoshop With Aaron Nace
Do You Find Photoshop Intimidating? If you find Photoshop to be intimidating you are not alone! We constantly hear from photographers that they know t...
How To Use The Texture Slider in Lightroom Classic
Most of photographers already know a little about the texture slider that Adobe added to Lightroom Classic in the release of version 8.3 in May 2019....
Getting Started In Macro Photography With Don Komarechka
Beginning Macro Photography Don, let’s start off the show by talking about what a competent photographer who has never done any macro can do to get st...
Concert Photography Tips With Steve Brazill
Permission to Shoot Let’s start off with how photographers can get permission to shoot at a concert. There have been so many stories in the photograp...
Adobe’s New Enhance Details Feature Explained!
What Does the New Enhance Details Feature of Lightroom Do? The Enhance Details feature in Lightroom and Photoshop uses artificial intelligence to inte...
Why Photographers Should Choose Their Top Ten Photos Annually!
Jeff explains why photographers should choose their top ten image annually and what benefit he saw from doing that for 2018. Why Should Photographers...
What Is Luminosity Masking?
Greg Benz joins Jeff to answer the question of “What is Luminosity Masking?” Episode Sponsors: Squarespace has beautiful templates to make your websit...
Ultimate Guide to Digitizing Prints and Negatives
Chris Marquardt talks with Jeff about everything you need to know about digitizing prints and negatives/slides using scanners and cameras. Episode Spo...
What’s New with Lightroom CC 1.5?
Jeff is joined by good friend of the show, Victoria Bampton (better known as the Lightroom Queen), to talk about the new desktop and mobile features o...
Adjustment Syncing and Selection in Lightroom
Jeff Harmon answers a listener question about how it is that adjustment syncing between two or more photos should work in Lightroom. He describes som...
Lightroom Computer 2018
Jeff talks with computer building expert Matt Bach of Puget Systems about the best choices for building a Lightroom computer in 2018. They talk about...
XMP Explained!
Jeff walks through the details of XMP, what it is, why photographers should care, the pros and cons, multiple options to turn in on in Lightroom, and...
ULTIMATE Guide to Backup for Photographers
Jeff refreshes information from his 2015 article, the ULTIMATE Backup Workflow for Photographers, with information from 2018 including the two “storag...
Lightroom 7.3 Profiles Explained!
Jeff walks through a revamp of the profiles feature in the release of Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 and Camera Raw 10.3. Even though profiles have been ar...
Lr Embedded Preview Workflow
Jeff Harmon walks through how to significantly speed up you culling process in Lightroom by using the Embedded Preview workflow: Disable background pr...
SAU Q1 2018 and Memory Card Hygiene
Jeff Harmon provides go/no go on the State of Adobe Updates Q1 2018. The he outlines 8 steps of good hygiene for memory cards: 1) Turn off Camera 2) W...
Lr Classic CC 7.1 With The Lightroom Queen
Jeff is joined by Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, to talk about Lightroom Classic CC 7.1. They talk about her new Lightroom Classic CC...
DPI With Don Komarechka
Jeff and Don Komarechka geek out over one of the most misunderstood concepts of DPI or dots per inch. They talk about how file size, pixel dimensions...