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People Are Really Struggling With This in Photoshop

That’s my topic today over on my scottkelby.com blog, and here’s a spoiler alert — the answer is to not use Photoshop for printing. You can give it a quick read (and check out the…

Create This Cool Multi-Photo Layout In Lightroom in Two Minutes

I saw this layout (and the wonderful photos within it from photographer Adrian Scarbrough), in my LinkedIn feed (seen above), so I thought it might be helpful to show how to make a similar layout…

Moving Forward on the Right Foot

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a few things to do to tidy up at the start of the year. I want to follow that up with a look at how you can…

How to Color Grade Photos in 1-click with Gradient Maps in Photoshop

How to Use Gradient Maps in Photoshop to color grade your photos Gradient maps are a secret weapon for retouchers and colorists. It’s so easy to make photography look rich or cinematic, by adding a…

Seven More of my Favorite Lightroom Shortcuts

Let’s kick off this week by learning some really helpful Lightroom keyboard shortcuts. Here we go: (1) To open all the panels in the left or right side panels, hold the Command-key (PC: Ctrl-key) and click…

Cool Tip From Gilmar On How She Uses Lightroom Gradients In Her Portrait Work

Here’s a quick 1-minute video from photographer, Photoshop wizard, and KelbyOne Instructor Gilmar Smith on how she uses Lightroom gradients in her portrait work. I like how she adds little things like negative Clarity to…

Using a Workaround for Sending Email

I suppose it is the nature of the beast, but no matter what software or hardware you are using in your day-to-day, things go wrong, bugs appear, something breaks, and the fix is just out…

How to make Cyberpunk colored Lights in Photoshop, Cyberpunk 2077 style

Adding Colored Cyberpunk Light in Photoshop If you look at any Cyberpunk style art, the blue and pink color scheme is a hallmark of this style, The style itself is a dystopian, lawless future where…