Author name: Volker Rastel

Hey, I'm Volker from pictrabox! An enthusiastic photographer, traveller and blogger. I would like to support you to take, edit and manage unique photos. I also report about my travels and the most unique places in the world.

Luminar AI: Image editing with artificial intelligence

The dream of being able to use efficient artificial intelligence to perfectly edit photographs (almost) on autopilot has been a constant in photographer’s lives for years now, a fantasy that every photographer has hoped would come true sooner rather than later. Well, it looks like that’s exactly what has happened with the new Luminar AI […]

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Lens Flare in Photography: Creative or Destructive?

Photographers everywhere have a love/hate relationship with lens flare. Sometimes it appears at the most inconvenient times and sometimes is recreated in the post-processing process as a creative effect. A bright light that doesn’t match the overall composition of your photo, like one from a sun’s ray, that reflects as an anomaly in your lens

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Chromatic aberration: causes, prevention, and correction

A fairly common issue for photographers is chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration also goes by color fringing, dispersion, or purple fringing. How chromatic aberration occurs is important for photographers to clearly understand – and how to correct it is a crucial skill to have. When taking an image, the camera’s sensor point of focus is the

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