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Create glorious grain

Sean McCormack is a photographer and writer, based in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. He’s the author of The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC.

Grain is a funny beast. We do our utmost to get rid of the digital version of it (noise) in our raw files. But then we often end up adding an emulated analogue version of it back in,

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