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- FIELD TRIPS WITH JANICE PRICHETT
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Photoshop World Is Back (and I Hope You’ll Join Us)!
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KelbyOne Announces Launch of AURÉ, a New Fine Art Photography Magazine
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Experimental iPhone Photography: Artistic Images Beyond the Snapshot with Lisa Carney
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Scott Kelby’s Bracket & Bounce Field Test
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What’s New In Lightroom
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Lighting Made Simple Using Continuous Lights
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Join Me Tomorrow for a Live Look at the June Lightroom Updates
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How to Remove Skin Blemishes and Fix Skin Tones in Camera Raw
Two recent additions to Camera Raw make skin retouching significantly faster: an automatic blemish removal tool with separate controls for moles and freckles, and a vectorscope-based skin tone indicator for correcting off-color skin. Both features…
Portrait Retouching in Photoshop: Smooth Skin While Keeping Natural Texture
Smooth skin and natural texture are not opposites — achieving both at once is the mark of a professional retouch. This workflow covers blemish removal, flyaway hair cleanup, dark under-eye correction, and eye brightening, all…
How to Use Camera Raw's Blemish Removal Tool in Photoshop
Camera Raw 18.5 introduced an automatic blemish removal tool that does something previous solutions rarely managed: it removes skin imperfections while preserving the underlying skin texture. It also distinguishes between temporary marks and permanent ones…
Portrait Slice Effect in Photoshop Using Step and Repeat
The portrait slice effect splits a single image into offset vertical bars, creating the illusion of a displaced or fragmented face. The entire technique relies on layer masks and a lesser-known Photoshop shortcut called step…
How to Remove Blemishes in Photoshop: Camera Raw vs. Generative AI
Photoshop now offers two distinct approaches to removing skin blemishes automatically. The Camera Raw Filter includes a dedicated Blemishes option that analyzes and cleans skin with a single checkbox, while Generative AI fills a face…
Common Photoshop Compositing Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Most compositing errors come down to a handful of repeatable problems: mismatched lighting direction, inconsistent white points, misaligned perspective, and atmosphere applied in the wrong layer order. Catching these issues early — ideally before you…
How to Use the Vectorscope in Camera Raw to Correct Skin Tones
The Vectorscope in Camera Raw gives you a precise, visual way to evaluate and correct skin tones based on hue and saturation data. Because all natural skin tones share a common hue range regardless of…
Camera Raw August 2026: AI Blemish Removal, Generative Expand, and More
The August 2026 Camera Raw update adds an AI-powered blemish removal tool that handles skin imperfections automatically, treating blemishes and moles separately so editors stay in control. Alongside that, an improved Generative Expand in the…
Wrap Text Around a Subject in 3D Using Photoshop's Warp Tool
Making text appear to wrap around a person or object adds genuine depth to a composition — the kind that's hard to fake with a simple drop shadow. This technique uses two warped text layers,…
New Features in Lightroom and Camera RAW, August 2026 update
There are new features in Lightroom Classic 2026 and Adobe Camera RAW in Photoshop 2026. This is the August 2026 update and it includes a number of new features including some that have made their…