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How to Animate in Photoshop, Video animation

This is the beginning file. It contains 3 layers. A background, a jet and the flame for the afterburner, called exhaust. We are going to animate the jet from the top of the screen…

My Lightroom Classic Tethering Set-up

Here’s the final shot you see me making in the BTS shot below. Back on Monday, I did a post about Segmenting when you’re shooting tethering into Lightroom Classic, and I get a lot of…

The Role of Metadata

Lightroom Classic’s catalog is simply a database of information about our photos. Learning how to edit and add to that information can help us manage, find, and organize our photos over time. Metadata is information…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds: How Lightroom can tell you which lens you like the most

If you’ve ever wondered which lens is your favorite, go-to lens, there’s an easy way to find out — Lightroom will tell you! Check out the video below: Pretty handy to know, right? Have a good…

Lightroom Tethering: What “Segmenting” Does (and how it makes your life easier)

PROGRAMMING UPDATE: I’m sharing a great strategy for backing up your photo library and LR catalog – another of our free live Webinars (normally just for Kelbyone members, but we’re opening it to all photographers)…

Website Critiques Day

Well, it was earlier this week on “The Grid” (my weekly photography podcast), when we asked our viewers to send a link to their websites for a critique of their layout, design, and usability. We’ve…

Customizing Camera Raw Defaults in Lightroom Classic

Forget everything you knew about how to create a custom default setting for your raw photos, and let’s get up to speed on the new system. Once you install the 9.2 update your old custom…

Remainder of 2019-20 season cancelled!

Fellow SPS members, The remainder of the Schenectady Photographic Society’s 2019-20 season’s meetings are cancelled immediately because of concerns about our members’ health regarding the coronavirus. This also includes the Uncommon Grounds exhibit for April,…