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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,…

3 easy ways to remove edge fringes in Photoshop. Halo removal on cutout edges.

After you cut out or mask an image in Photoshop, it’s common to have black or white fringes or just jaggy around the edges. Here I’ll show you 3 ways to get rid of them.…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds: How to See and Edit Your Adjustment Brush Mask

Here’s a quick way to see if you missed any areas when you were painting, how to fix those areas, and how to see if you accidentally painted over any areas you didn’t want to…

Don’t Use TIFF. For Anything. Ever.*

On Friday we started a series of free Webcasts (ones that we usually do for KelbyOne Members, we opened them to everyone during this virus crisis), and the first one was on how to prep…

My 10 Favorite Hidden “Reset” Buttons in Lightroom

Here’s one from the vault which was inspired by a question on my Facebook page on Tuesday about how to reset the Crop tool to its original starting place without exiting the tool itself (it’s…

Print Competition Results for March 2020

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Print Night competition. Judge: David WaiteAssigned Topic: Winter Scene General Monochrome Assigned Topic