This Months Highlights:
- WORKING WITH TEXTURES AND OVERLAYS, MARK BOWIE
- WHAT TO SHOOT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO SHOOT, JEFF LEIMBACH
- FOCUS ON YOU!
- PHOTO ESSAY COMPETITION GUIDANCE
- FOCUS ON: ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD
- SEVEN SECRETS OF OUTSTANDING TELEPHOTO LANDSCAPES, JOSHUA CRIPPS
- DECEMBER WINNING IMAGES
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What To Do If You See “The File Could Not Be Found” Message in Lightroom Classic
If you see this message (as shown above) when you jump over to the Develop module, it just means Lightroom has lost track of the original high-res image. Lightroom still has the thumbnail preview in…
Accessing and Listening to Voice Memos
File this post under ancient features in Lightroom Classic that are so obscure that most people don’t know it’s there. I’m pretty sure this feature has existed since Lightroom was first released, but it is…
Photoshop For Lightroom Users, Part 1
I’m kicking off a new column here on Tuesdays for the next three months or so – it’s from my column in Photoshop User magazine of the same name, and it’s aimed at photographers who have…
My New Lightroom Book Is Back In Stock, Ready to Ship!
Amazon fulfilled all the pre-orders, and then they were out of stock for a while, but now thankfully the print edition is back in stock. All the new Masking stuff is in the edition, and…
Announcing: The KelbyOne Lightroom Conference (coming Feb. 8-9, 2022)
Very excited to be announcing our first conference for the year, and it’s a doozy!!!! We just announced it to KelbyOne Members last week, and the sign-ups are through the roof, which is really exciting.…
Check out the Lightroom Academy
A fairly recent addition to the content on lightroom.adobe.com is the Lightroom Academy (no, not an Umbrella Academy spinoff, but that would be cool too). Lightroom Academy bills itself as “a learning environment dedicated to…
Time To Combine All Your Lightroom Classic Catalogs Into Just One
It’s a new year, and time to get your Lightroom life organized (that was one of New Year’s resolutions for 2022, right?). One thing you can do to make your Lightroom life so much easier…
How To Update Lightroom’s Copyright Info Preset For 2022 and How To Apply It
Hi, everybody – it sure is good to be back – really enjoyed my Holiday Break, but now it’s a new year, full of new opportunities and possibilities, and so let’s get right to it. If like…
The January 2022 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
Happy New Year, everyone! The January 2022 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to streamline the process of opening images in Photoshop from Lightroom…
Target Collection and Target Album
A very useful feature found in both Lightroom Classic (LrC) and Lightroom (Lr) on Mac/Win is the ability to assign a specific collection in LrC or album in Lr as the Target collection. Let’s look…
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How to Photoshop a person into a photo, complete, easy, free Photoshop tutorial
In this Photoshop tutorial we will put a person into a photo. This is a simple tutorial, but it will touch on everything you need to know to convincingly put a person into a photo.…
Photoshop For Lightroom Users, Part 1
I’m kicking off a new column here on Tuesdays for the next three months or so – it’s from my column in Photoshop User magazine of the same name, and it’s aimed at photographers who have…
Photoshop refine Mask Tricks in 2022
Making a selection in Photoshop with Color Range This is the starting image, of course, you will be using the images you are working on. If you already have a selection, skip to the…
The January 2022 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
Happy New Year, everyone! The January 2022 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to streamline the process of opening images in Photoshop from Lightroom…
Best tech in 2022 for Creative Pros – PhotoshopCAFE picks
The best products of the year (2021) (AKA Colin’s Gear Guide) I reviewed a lot of stuff in 2021. What is the best? Check it out here. 2021 was an amazing year for tech.…
Clean photos and remove distractions with the patch tool in Photoshop
It’s not unusual to get smudges and, dirt and footprints on the white seamless paper during a photoshoot. It’s also common the see the edge of backdrop or light modifiers in the scene. I don’t…
How to use Luminosity Masks in Photoshop tutorial
Luminosity masks allow us to target precise tones in your photograph, so you can adjust exactly where you want without the need for selections, because it works on image tones. For example, you can lighten…
Selectively remove shadows in a photo with reverse dodge and burn in Photoshop
Show detail in shadows and highlights selectively in Photoshop with Reverse Dodge and Burn tutorial. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to remove the shadows exactly where you need them and recover blown out…
LFL#82 CG Photography effects with Photoshop and Optics.
How to make CG Photography with Photoshop and Boris FX Colin Smith shows you how create some visual effects and compositing in Photoshop. See how to use Adobe Photoshop and Boris FX and Sapphire FX…
The December 2021 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
he December 2021 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. Once again, Scott Kelby shares all of his favorite photo gear that any photographer on your holiday gift list would…
