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Being In Control of Your Photos

Last week I shared an excerpt of an article I wrote for Photoshop User magazine that covered starting off on the right foot this year with your catalog. I wanted to follow that up with…

How Would I Edit Your Photo?

That was our topic last week on “The Grid” and we had viewers submit their unedited images and I took them through the steps of what I would do to take them from out-of-the-camera to…

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…

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…