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How To Use Lightroom’s Awesome Range Mask

Awesome is right — the Range Mask feature is pretty darn awesome, but any time I show it, I get lots of comments from Lightroom users who didn’t realize it even existed. That’s why today I’m…

Announcing a Major Update To My Bestselling Book of All-Time

t’s not only my bestselling book, it’s the #1 top-selling book on digital photography in history, and I just finished a major rewrite, and it’s on press right now. Check out why I did this…

Exploring Batch Editing Options Part 2

Following up on last week’s post, I want to look at all the options we have in the Develop module. As you might expect the Develop module is packed with batch editing opportunities to make…

Understanding Image Resolution in Photoshop for beginners

Has this ever happened to you? You choose a photo and you drop it into another picture and suddenly the size isn’t what you expected? This happened to me the first time I used Photoshop.…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds: How to Add Text to Your Prints

I’m back with more Lightroom in 60-seconds videos (after a brief hiatus brought on by the whole virus quarantine and a bout of extreme laziness), but here we go starting off with a good one…

Lightroom ‘Nerd Terms’ Decoder

There’s a list of terms we use fairly often that everybody, especially folks new to Lightroom, may not be all that familiar with. So, today I thought I’d ‘decode’ some of our common ‘nerd speak’…

10 Big Differences Between Lightroom Classic & Lightroom “Cloud”

Above: Lightroom ‘Cloud’ with its module-less interface. Howdy, folks. This is kind of a follow-up to Monday’s post where I answered the question of “Why does my Lightroom look different than your Lightroom?” (link) where…

LIVE FROM LOCKDOWN #12 Matching Photos, quick photo fixes and fix my photo.

In this weeks Live from Lockdown Colin Smith shows how to match the color between photos, Make any photo look better in just a few clicks, make a 3D can out of a picture (anyone…