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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…

Digital Competition Results for February 2023 – Assigned Topics

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Digital Image Night competition for the Assigned Topic categories. ** Judge: Johanna Siegmann | Assigned Topic #1: Candlelight | Assigned Topic #2: Solitude ** COMPETITION REPLAY

Will artists be replaced by AI Art? Mid Journey and Chat GPT. What I think

Hey, guys, how you doing? It’s been a while since we’ve sat down and we’ve had a chat. And everybody is talking about AI and its future on art and photography. So why don’t we…

Cool, Easy to Do, Lightroom Color Range Masking Tip (you’ll dig it)

Heads Up: Next week, I’m teaching at the B&H Photo ‘Depth of Field” Portrait Photography Conference in New York City with an absolutely top-flight team of instructors. The event, either in person or online, is completely free…