This Months Highlights:
- ZOOMING INTO THE NEW SEASON
- NEW VIRTUAL DIGITAL COMPETITIONS
- HOW TO USE ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCING
- WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY DURING THE PANDEMIC
- 2020-2021 ASSIGNED TOPICS
- LIVE AND LEARN: WEBINARS AND TUTORIALS
- NEW FACEBOOK SUMMER SCHOOL
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Clearing Up Some Lightroom White Balance Myths and Confusion
Today I’m answering some questions and addressing a myth I get fairly often about adjusting White Balance in Lightroom. Q. Why is it that sometimes in Lightroom when I go to the White Balance presets …
Announcing My 13th Annual ‘Worldwide Photo Walk’ For The Springs of Hope Orphanage
Holding a huge Photo Walk, with groups of people all getting together in person, in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, well…it’s made us majorly rethink how to do a photo walk, and we think…
Revisiting Lightroom on the Web
It has been awhile since I explored the features and UI of the lightroom.adobe.com portal. I was pleased to see how much it has evolved to be another extension of the Lightroom ecosystem, and probably…
Lightroom in 60-Seconds: How to speed your work using ‘Scrubby Sliders’
This is one of those little features that can make a big difference. I use these scrubby sliders every day in my work, and I hope you find it really helpful, too. Check it out.…
Using Lightroom’s ‘Spray Paint’ feature to “Spray” Presets Across Multiple Images
Here’s a pretty cool little tip (from the vault): in Lightroom Classic’s Library module you can use the Paint Can (in the toolbar along the bottom of the thumbnail grid) to “spray” on the preset…
Lightroom Printing Q&A
First, before we kick into the Q&A for today, I wanted to thank everybody who joined us for ‘The Landscape Conference” this week. What a wonderful, gracious, fun crowd to present to (over 1,400+ photographers…
The September 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The September 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, Bryan O’Neil Hughes shows us how to tune the tones in our B&W images to perfection in…
Keeping Your Collection/Album Organization in Sync
I love using Lightroom Classic and Lightroom (cloud) together, and use them together every day. As powerful as that combo can be, there are some aspects that don’t flow as seamlessly between applications as I…
Lightroom in 60-Seconds: The Awesomeness of the ‘Flow’ Control
Flow is really good stuff, and if you haven’t been taking advantage of it when using Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush, well…check out the video below and see what you’ve been missing. Flow rules! Today is the…
The Landscape Photography Conference Kicks Off Tomorrow!
The Landscape Photography Conference (our two-day, two-track, live online educational conference) officially starts tomorrow (it kicks off today, a day early, with a pre-conference orientation and then I’m doing a workshop at 11:00 am called…
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The September 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The September 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, Bryan O’Neil Hughes shows us how to tune the tones in our B&W images to perfection in…
How to create a neon glow in Photoshop, layer style and font included.
I’m going to show you how to create neon text in Photoshop using Layer Styles. There are a couple of cool Layer styles tips you will pick up in this tutorial. Download assets You…
How to remove harsh shadows from a face in Photoshop
I’m going to show you how to remove a shadow from a face inside of Photoshop. Look at this photo and you can see the light coming through the chains and it makes it look like…
Focus Stacking for Photographers Made Easier (thanks to Lightroom)
Note: This isn’t just for Focus Stacking (see toward the end of the post). If you’re not familiar with focus stacking (where you create an image with extraordinary sharpness by taking multiple photos; each one…
LFL #16 | Making + Using LUTS, Black +White, Fix My Photo
In this weeks Live from Lockdown Colin Smith shows you how make your own LUTs as well as creative ways of using them. Discover the best way to make black and white, and time to…
How to Sharpen a photo in Photoshop
One of the first things people want to know how to do in Photoshop, is to sharpen a photo. This would seen pretty easy, right? It’s not really clear to a beginner, because, they would…
Live #15: Panorama, Brushes and Fix my Photo
In this weeks Live from Lockdown Colin Smith shows you how to make a tiled panorama, how to use custom brushes as well as fixing your photos. Submit your photo for Fix my Photo here …
How to Update Photoshop – Watch this before updating!
How to Update Photoshop Let’s get the latest Photoshop update. To do this, we launch the Creative Cloud app. All updates are done through Creative Cloud. For best results, restart your computer first. Choose Help>Updates…
LIVE #14: NEW RELEASE Photoshop 2020 + Lightroom Classic
In this weeks Live from Lockdown Colin Smith shows you the new features in the June 2020 release of Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. Check out whats new in Photoshop 2020 21.2, Camera Raw 13 and…
Photoshop 2020 March release, new features in Photoshop 21.2
New Features in Photoshop 2020 June update On June 16th Adobe released a new update to Photoshop. There is definitely something here for both designers and photographers. Watch the video above and see how…