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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…

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…

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…

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…