Urban Lightscape 1.3.3 Stand Alone & Plugin for Photoshop

Urban Lightscape

A Photoshop plugin (and standalone application) for localised exposure correction and post-production lighting adjustments.

A Brief Introduction to Urban Lightscape

Looking at the promotional screenshots for Urban Lightscape, the astute, well-travelled and Vietnamese will have no trouble guessing where I?ve been most recently. As I develop some of the photos from the trip, I thought it an opportune time to share some of the ways I?m putting Urban Lightscape to use in my own workflow, and provide a few tips for getting the most out of it.

Take this photo (Figure 1) from the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh city. The vase in the foreground is meant to be the focal point of the capture, but it?s also the dullest part of the piece. Global adjustments to brightness, contrast and curves in Adobe Photoshop?s Camera Raw only get me so far (Figure 2). I need to actually enhance brightness locally around the vase, and it is for this sort of adjustment that Urban Lightscape shines.

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