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A Cool Skin Softening Tip (and a Killer Deal)

Before we get to our tip, today we kick off our Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal on a KelbyOne Pro Membership, and it’s our best deal of the year. More people join KelbyOne this week (and next…

Shoot in Raw on any iPhone Using This Trick

You don’t need a brand new iPhone 14 Pro to shoot in Raw – as long as you have an iPhone made in the last eight years (at least an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, or…

Digital Competition Results for November 2022 – General & Monochrome

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

Three Tips for Image Noise Reduction

Digital grain, or noise, can’t always be avoided in photography. Despite massive advances in camera sensor technology over the years, noise is still a major issue for all different types of photographers. There are a…

Customizing Lightroom Your Way

Before we get to today’s tutorial: When I return from a trip or a workshop, I share the story and my images from the trip using Adobe Express (formerly called “Adobe Spark”). I think it’s…

New Survey Shows Most Photographers Use Lightroom For Editing. Not a Big Surprise, but…

… 82% of the photographers in a recent poll on the popular Shotkit.com site use either Lightroom (58%) or Photoshop (22%) or both for their editing. That means a whole lot of photographers use Photoshop…

Removing Distractions with Updated Healing Tool

Last week I mentioned using the Content-Aware Remove tool to clean up the photo I was working on, so let’s take a closer look at what changed with this tool. [This article originally appeared in…

Digital Competition Results for November 2022 – Assigned Topics

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Digital Image Night competition for the Assigned Topic categories. ** Judge: Shannon Calvert | Assigned Topic #1: Books | Assigned Topic #2: Long and Tall ** COMPETITION REPLAY