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5 Things I Would Tell Any Lightroom Classic User

I just returned from B&H Photo’s awesome “Depth of Field” Portrait conference in New York City. The event was a huge success – packed the whole time with some really nice people (and great instructors).…

How to make 3D pop out effect in Photoshop in 4 simple steps

How to make the eye grabbing “out of bounds” or 3D pop-out effect effect is an easy way to add a ton of impact to an image, as the subject jumps out of the screen…

February Update for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, and Camera Raw

This month Adobe released an update for its Lightroom family of products. Open up the Adobe Creative Cloud application manager to check and see if you need to update. While there are no amazing new…

Digital Competition Results for February 2023 – General & Monochrome

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Digital Image Night competition for the General and Monochrome categories. ** Judge: Mark Wiley ** COMPETITION REPLAY

Retouching Portraits in Lightroom, Part Two

Welcome to the second installment of my “Retouching Portraits in Lightroom” column. Last time, I talked about how to remove blemishes, which is a perfect lead-up to what we’re going to do this time because…

How to Light up a Photo in Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW

How to add Light to a Photograph In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add lights, rim lights, flood lights and warm sunlight to a photo using Lightroom. If you don’t use Lightroom, this…

Keep Auto Import In Your Back Pocket

I was doing a project recently where I was saving photos outside of Lightroom Classic, but decided I wanted them all to end up in my catalog for keeping track of them over time, and…

The Best Little Lightroom Tip You’ll Learn All Day

and I’ll bet it’s one you didn’t know, but I’m tellin’ you, if you ever get the dreaded “Photo is Missing” message in Lightroom Classic, you will love this time-saving, frustration-saving tip that you’ll use…