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My Lightroom Classic Tethering Set-up (from top to bottom)
I’m back from my trips to New York, and my family vacation in Maine, so let’s do this! Whenever I show behind-the-scenes shots from my shoots, I always get lots of questions about the rig…
Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies
Ok, I’ll admit right away that this is not pretty, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. Perhaps someone will figure out a more elegant solution (like Adobe), and I’d love to hear…
June 2022 Update for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom
The June update has arrived! Along with support for new cameras and lenses we’ve gained a host of new features and improvements in Lightroom Classic and Lightroom. Let’s take a look at what’s new in…
Three Reasons Why I Don’t Organize My Photos By Date
I don’t organize by date for three main reasons: I actually used to organize by date when I first started using Lightroom, but organizing by date requires you to remember, to some extent, when you…
Another Way to Share to Social Media from Lightroom Classic
We’ve been exploring various ways to share photos from Lightroom Classic, and up to this point I’ve only shown options that involve exporting from Lightroom Classic. However, there is another option that has been around…
How to Apply An ‘Auto Correction’ Automatically On Import
ABOVE: The only edit to the Raw photo seen here was to click the “Auto” button. This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below). It brought…
Photoshop For Lightroom Users (#12): High Pass Sharpening
OK, we’re picking up where we left last time (well, last month), where we dipped our toe into the wild world of sharpening. We started with the classic Unsharp Mask filter, which has been in…
The June 2022 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
The June 2022 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. From concept to the final design, learning what makes a good logo vs. a bad logo is important every step…
Sharing to Social Media from Lightroom Classic
In my continuing series on sharing options from Lightroom Classic (LrC) we started with the Export dialog and then looked at some cloud service options for sharing exported copies. I think the next logical option…
Why I Don’t Convert My Raw Images To DNG
Before, before we take this Genie out of the bottle, just a quick heads up: I am super excited to be one of the speakers again at the 8th Annual B&H Photo OPTIC conference (called…
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4 quick ways to fix photos in under a minute in Photoshop, that you may not have known
4 Ways to quickly fix a photo, using Apply image and more in Photoshop There are many ways to fix photos in Photoshop and I have written many tutorials about them. I want to offer…
Avoid the 3 worst photo editing mistakes in Photoshop
There are a lot of ways to do things in Photoshop. Sometimes it doesn’t matter which way you do them, however there are some best practices. There are some things, you just shouldn’t do because…
Photoshop For Lightroom Users (#12): High Pass Sharpening
OK, we’re picking up where we left last time (well, last month), where we dipped our toe into the wild world of sharpening. We started with the classic Unsharp Mask filter, which has been in…
The June 2022 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
The June 2022 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. From concept to the final design, learning what makes a good logo vs. a bad logo is important every step…
Double process, stunning photo edits in Photoshop and Lightroom
Get Stunning detail in sky and shadows in Photoshop without HDR, using the Double trick. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to show you how to process the same image twice and then combine the…
ON1 Releases the Next-Generation Photo Enlargement Software
ON1 Resize, powered by Genuine Fractals, has been the gold standard for photo resizing and preparing your photo’s final output, and it has been for over twenty years. ON1 says the new ON1 Resize AI…
Remove distractions in photos with Photoshop advanced Content Aware Fill
Easily remove distractions from a photo in Photoshop using advanced Content Aware Fill In this photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you an easy way to retouch a photo and get rid of a distracting background. Here…
How to edit amazing looking photos in Lightroom Classic
How to edit amazing looking photos in Lightroom Classic Hi Cafe Crew! In this tutorial, I’m going to show you the steps I take to edit a photo in Lightroom Classic. Before and after image…
Photoshop For Lightroom Users: The Sharpening Filters
I’m in Prague today, leading a travel photography workshop, so I thought I’d do an installment of Photoshop for Lightroom Users column to kick off this week (since I won’t be posting much until next…
Boris FX Optics: Lens Flares & Film Effects in Lightroom
By Ross Shain If you enjoy exploring lighting and special effects in your edits and would like to do more in Lightroom without jumping to Photoshop, this tutorial might be for you. Boris FX Optics…