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Print Competition Results for February 2020

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Print Night competition. Judge: Jim Craner Assigned Topic: Portrait Photo General Monochrome Assigned Topic

Takin’ On The Adobe Haters…

That was our topic yesterday on “The Grid” in response a Petapixel.com article titled: “Adobe, This is Why Photographers Are Hating On You.” I’ve embedded the episode (below); Not a lot of visuals, so you…

Uses for that Post-Processing Panel on Export

Way down at the bottom of the Export dialog is the lonely Post-Processing panel. I use it all the time, but I feel like it is one of the most underrated options people consider when…

How to Make a Panoramic photo – shoot and edit a Pano in Lightroom or Photoshop

Why Panoramas? Panoramas, or panos are a great way to do a couple of things. First of all, they make it possible to photograph a subject that is too big to fit in a…

Lightroom Speed Editing

If you’re working a lot of photos, and you want to crank through those Develop Module edits, here’s two shortcuts that will make a world of difference: Pretty awesome, right? Lightroom rocks! San Diego and…

Cool 6-up Lightroom Layout

Don’t just think of this as a layout for print — you can save this layout as a regular JPEG and share it online just as easily. NOTE: This is a Lightroom Classic tutorial only.…

Lightroom Intermediate Level “From Raw Shot to Final Image” Tutorial

Hi gang, Today it’s a start to finish tutorial on the regular stuff we have to do to regular images (and you can download the RAW file used in the video to follow along). So,…

How to edit a photo taken in direct sunlight in Lightroom or Photoshop ACR

So, for those other photos, here is a tutorial to get the most out of them. Fortunately if you shoot RAW and use either Lightroom or the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop (they have…