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OUR BLACK FRIDAY “BEST DEALS OF THE YEAR” ARE HERE!
Today is “Black Friday” in the US — the biggest retail shopping day of the year) and in honor, we’ve got our best deals of the year on KelbyOne memberships and tickets (and full rebroadcasts) to our online…
Transferring Presets From the Lightroom Cloud
There’s a cool component of the Lightroom cloud family of apps that doesn’t exist in Lightroom Classic, which are called the Learn and Discover. The goal of both of those components is to help us…
10 Awesome Lightroom Cropping Shortcut
The first one is “super awesome,” the next nine are just awesome. Here we go: When you’re using the Crop Tool, if you apply an aspect ratio (like 8×10 for example), and then switch to…
Here’s a Handy Lightroom Shortcut I’ll Bet Ya Didn’t Know
Ya know those handy little Target Adjustment Tools (known as TATs for short) that you find in Develop Module panels like the Tone Curve as well the HSL/Color panel? Well, this little known set of…
Merging Two Drives Into One
… And keeping Lightroom Classic from freaking out. That was just too long for a title, but that’s what I set out to do. I’ve had the bulk of my photo library stored on two…
How to Save Your Image as a JPEG
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Today is Pre-Conference day at the Flash Photography Conference, and I’m kicking it off this morning with a “Flash For Absolute Beginners” Class at 11:15 am ET (even if you miss it, you…
Get right to the panel you want without having to scroll down
If you’re in the Develop module working in the Basic panel and then decide you want to jump to: …the new Color Grading panel, just press Command-4 (PC: Ctrl-4). To jump back up to the…
Replacing the Sky Instead of Cleaning It
One of the least fun editing tasks in Lightroom Classic is cleaning up sensor spots in the sky. Starting with a noisy and mottled sky makes it even worse. I wondered if it wouldn’t be…
How To Do Regular Ol’ Split Toning In Lightroom’s New Color Grading Panel
Now that Lightroom’s Split Toning panel is gone and has been replaced by a more robust Color Grading panel, how do you create a simple Split Tone (like we used to do)? Here’s how: STEP…
Lightroom Classic or Lightroom “Cloud” – Which One Is Right For You?
That’s the topic today on Terry White’s excellent Photography Master Class, and I’m embedding the stream below so you can watch it live right here at 11:00 AM ET, or if you dropping by after…
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Replacing the Sky Instead of Cleaning It
One of the least fun editing tasks in Lightroom Classic is cleaning up sensor spots in the sky. Starting with a noisy and mottled sky makes it even worse. I wondered if it wouldn’t be…
The November 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Is Now Available!
The November 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. Welcome to “The Magazine for Lightroom & Photoshop Users!” Starting this issue, we’ve rolled in all the content from Lightroom Magazine to…
Create a Trendy Cyberpunk Effect in Photoshop
Article republished with permission of PSD STACK. PSD Stack is a blog dedicated to Photoshop that provides high-quality tutorials, presets and actions to all level of Photoshop users Learn how to create a trendy cyberpunk…
The October 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The October 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. This is our 21st Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips issue! These 100 tasty tricks and treats may be s’more than…
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…
