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Adding A Background Light Behind Your Subject, All in Lightroom

This one works in either Lightroom Classic or Cloud, and it’s quick, easy, and really effective. Here goes: STEP ONE: Well, this isn’t a step, but here’s our starting image with our subject photographed on…

How to be more creative in 2020

That was our topic yesterday on our podcast ‘The Grid” and our guest was photographer and author Marc Silber. Lots of really great info (sadly, I didn’t bring much to the table on this one,…

The January 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!

The January 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, join Terry White as he takes us on an in-depth tour of Photoshop…

Managing Develop Presets in Lightroom Classic

I hope your 2020 is off to a great start. One of my constant resolutions is to be able to manage all of the myriad of digital files that find their way onto my laptop.…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds: Totally Hidden, Yet Absolutely Epic Thumbnail Reordering Trick

I wish I had come up with this, but only somebody at Adobe (thanks, Benjamin Warde) would even know this trick existed. I would try to explain it in text, but if you watch the…

What Do Those Lightroom Thumbnail Icons Mean?

There are a couple of icons that I get asked about quite a lot when I share a screencap from Lightroom’s Library Module, so I thought I might tackle those two here today just in…

How to get perfectly smooth edges on cutouts of people in Photoshop

We will be using Channels and well as dodging and burning to create our mask. This type of cutout is sometimes called a channel pull, although many channel pulls just use levels and don’t…

I’m back from a couple of weeks off; I’m back in the blogging saddle, and I’m kicking things off this year with my annual tutorial on how to update your Copyright info in Lightroom Classic…