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Why Does My Lightroom Look Different Than Yours?
I get this questions more than you might think, and it’s actually an easy answer: It’s because we’re using different versions of Lightroom, but both of them are current, up-to-date versions of Lightroom. Both share…
How I Use Lightroom’s Color Labels
I primarily rely on Pick Flags and just the singular 5-star rating to tag photos in Lightroom Classic, but there’s a particular situation where I use Color Labels as well, and thought you might find…
Making the Most of Lightroom Classic’s Interface
Lightroom Classic’s interface isn’t as customizable as Photoshop’s, but it can be changed in a number of ways to maximize the space devoted to your photos, to make your workflow more efficient, and to hide…
A Day To Honor Our Fallen Soldiers
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, and our offices are closed as we honor and remember those who gave their lives in service to our country. This post is dedicated each year to the memory…
Scott’s Lightroom Q&A
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Tonight at 8:00 PM ET I’m doing another of my now legendary live “Book Chats” and everybody’s invited. Tonight’s featured book is “The Flash Book” and I’ll be sharing tips from the book,…
Issue 61 of Lightroom Magazine Is Now Available!
Issue 61 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, explore a set of three new plug-ins that help get your work…
Keeping Your Presets in Sync
I love the Lightroom Classic with Lightroom Cloud workflow, and a key component of this workflow is having the same Develop presets available across all Lightroom applications. While Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw share…
Get Up To Speed Fast On All The Stuff Adobe Added to Lightroom In The Past 18 Months
It’s a lot more than you’d think (even I was surprised, and there were even a features that snuck by me, which of course I included in the class). Anyway, there’s so much they added,…
Backing Up Your Photos: How To Make a Backup Of Your Backup
This is another one I get asked a lot (and it came up numerous times at the Lightroom Conference), and if you caught my session (or if you’ve watch3ed my SLIM [Simplified Lightroom Image Management}…
The May 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The May 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to turn your travel architectural photographs into fine art, create colorful double exposure effects, quickly…
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Change day to night in Camera Raw, lighting photos in Photoshop.
I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first. Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock. 1.…
Live from Lockdown #11 Patching photos, content aware fill and cut out
May 28th live stream replay Colin fixes YOUR photos! How to use the Patch tool to clean up studio photos. How to use advanced content aware fill. Cutting out an object using quick select and…
LIVE FROM LOCKDOWN Ep.10: Fix My photo
In this live stream, Colin Smith shows how to do creative processing of a photo. We are going to look at adding lighting and changing the look of photos as well as removing distractions, butting…
How to make good night shadows in Photoshop. Light a product in Photoshop
Turning a picture of a book into a night scene with spotlight and light shadows (Gobo in Photoshop). In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to do a few things, but the big one is…
How to make a sunset or sunrise in Photoshop with lighting effects
You can apply this technique to any photo. You can use an overcast day, to add a sunrise or sunset, or you can use a photos where the sunrise didn’t quite hit and really make…
The May 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The May 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to turn your travel architectural photographs into fine art, create colorful double exposure effects, quickly…
How to Create a realistic beam of sunlight in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a beam of sunlight falling into a forest. We will even add some pollen to make it look a little more magical. The original is an…
How to Emboss a logo or icon in Photoshop
When I first discovered this technique over 20 years ago, I decided to see how far I could push it. That experimentation led to me creating a series of Photorealistic illustrations entirely made in Photoshop…
How to Light a Portrait Photo in Photoshop
This will work on any version of Photoshop, although Lighting effects looks a little different before CS6, it still works the same. Note: When I add keyboard shortcuts for both Mac and Windows I…
Leverage Lightroom Classic Snapshots in Photoshop
Even if you use Lightroom Classic for the majority of your editing needs there are still times when you just need to do something in Photoshop. This can be intimidating for some people who are…