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Exploring Batch Editing Options

In this time at home I’ve been trying to learn about focus stacking as a way to keep shooting what is available to me right now. I’ve still got a lot to learn (which is…

Change day to night in Camera Raw, lighting photos in Photoshop.

I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first. Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock. 1.…

Why Does My Lightroom Look Different Than Yours?

I get this questions more than you might think, and it’s actually an easy answer: It’s because we’re using different versions of Lightroom, but both of them are current, up-to-date versions of Lightroom. Both share…

How I Use Lightroom’s Color Labels

I primarily rely on Pick Flags and just the singular 5-star rating to tag photos in Lightroom Classic, but there’s a particular situation where I use Color Labels as well, and thought you might find…

Live from Lockdown #11 Patching photos, content aware fill and cut out

May 28th live stream replay Colin fixes YOUR photos! How to use the Patch tool to clean up studio photos. How to use advanced content aware fill. Cutting out an object using quick select and…

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…