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Awesome Video on Enhancing Portraits in Lightroom

This is so good – it’s how to enhance boring-looking portraits in Lightroom, and it’s from KelbyOne Instructor Tracy Sweeney (she is so good!). Check it out below, and then I’ll share a link to…

How to convert Photos to paintings in Photoshop with Generative Fill AI

Converting Photos to art with Ai in Photoshop There’s a cool hack that allows you to convert photos to paintings and a lot more using Generative Fill and a 20% selection. It was a well…

Photoshop update July 2024, Photoshop 25.11 new features

Adobe updated Photoshop 25.11 in July 2024. Here are the new features and how to use them. In some cases, these features have already appeared in the beta version of Photoshop and I have already…

Importing Presets in Lightroom iOS

The June 2024 update to Lightroom for iOS slipped in a new feature that finally gives us the ability to directly import presets into Lightroom mobile. This capability already existed for Android and the desktop…

Does Lightroom’s Remove Tool’s Generative AI Feature Really Make a Big Difference?

Up until a few months ago, the best tool we had for removing distracting stuff in our images was the ‘Remove Tool,’ which was pretty much hit or miss (in my experience, mostly miss). So,…

Great Little One-Minute Video For Help in Setting Your White Balance

It’s short and sweet but pretty darn handy. Check it out below: Told ya it was short (and sweet), and I hope it was helpful. Have a great weekend, everybody! -Scott The post Great Little…

Tips For Using Lightroom’s Masking Brush

Here are a few quick shortcuts for using the Brush tool inside LIghtroom’s masking feature for those of you just getting into Lightroom (or if you’ve been using Lightroom for a while, maybe you forgot about…

Travel Photographers: Moving Your Lightroom Classic Edits From Your Laptop To Your Computer At Home

If you travel with your laptop (like I do), you want to be able to sort and edit on your laptop, but then when you get back home, you want to have all those edits…