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Finding People in Lightroom (cloud) Part 2

Let’s wrap up my post from last week on using face recognition in Lightroom. If you should ever find a photo of a person within a face group who is not the right person for…

How To Turn Any Collection Into A Favorite

Quick head up first: today is pre-conference workshop day at the Photoshop World Conference 2022. Tons and tons of Lightroom and Photoshop classes over the next four days, and it’s an incredible value (especially since…

How to use Content aware Trace in Photoshop for perfect selections.

Content Aware Trace in Photoshop When you are looking for the highest quality cutouts on solid edges, the Pen tool and paths are unmatched. They create a vector path which will give you the cleanest…

Killer Lightroom Tip If You Don’t Have GPS in Your Camera, But Want Your Images Added To Lightroom’s Map

And, of course, it features Lightroom guru (and Adobe evangelist), Mr. Terry White. Check it out: How cool is that!!!! Thanks, Terry! This next video was put together by Adobe… …and it’s about the woman…

5 Things to Know About Using Plugins in Photoshop

You can do a lot in Photoshop. It’s no secret that Photoshop is one of, if not the most powerful photo editing programs in the world. For years, Adobe’s pinnacle program has been the gold…

Finding People in Lightroom (cloud)

Previously, we looked at how the facial recognition function, aka People View, worked in Lightroom Classic. I figured it would be useful to examine how the facial recognition function works in the cloud based Lightroom…

How To Use Lightroom’s ‘Guided Edit ‘For Fixing Perspective Issues

Back when I did my online course called “A Photographer’s Guide to Chicago,” one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you could shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains).…

How to combine photos in Photoshop for beginners

How to combine photos in Photoshop. ► Download the practice images here: This photoshop tutorial shows you how to figure out the size of your images and combine them into a single document. How to…