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Welcome to the Master Photography Roundtable

part of the Master Photography Podcast network.

You're joined by thousands of photographers listening to this show

who are all of the same journey to master their photography. I am Jeff Harmon the host for this

episode and joining me today is my good friend Greg Ben's a master photographer

himself. How are you Greg? I'm great. Thanks for having me back Jeff. Yeah, happy to have you. So Greg has been on the show before, but we're adding tons of new listeners all the time to the show. So I want to make sure that we give any new guest, a new host, a time to kind of give us the

30 second elevator pitch about them and you know you can include your Lumbensia product too.

So what do you say?

What is your 32nd elevator pitch there, Greg?

So for those who don't know me,

I'm a landscape photographer.

I'm actually a working photographer who sells my art, but also a software developer and instructor. So I teach Photoshop and I also develop a plugin for Photoshop called Loomensia, which creates luminosity mass and selections which if you never heard that before basically it means it gives you a more natural way of creating master selections from the image so for example if you want to restore color to the sky you can more easily select the sky

and adjust just that part of the image. Right right. Yep it's it's awesome so if you

haven't checked it out yet go check out Loominsia and there's a photo taco podcast that we did on that

topic too and talked a little bit about it so you can go search and that I'll make

sure there's a link in the show notes to it but that's now we're talking

about today we're not even going into

Loomensia or, well I guess we'll touch on it a little bit at the end. But today what I wanted to do and the reason I asked

Greg to come and be on the show with me was he recently published here in July 2019 an article to his website called how to reduce noise Photoshop and I love Greg's articles. He does such a great job with them. There's usually

a YouTube video or something there too to provide additional guidance. But there was one particular

few lines out of that article that caught my attention Greg and why I want to have that be our topic for today. It's a it's a

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