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Lightroom ‘Nerd Terms’ Decoder

There’s a list of terms we use fairly often that everybody, especially folks new to Lightroom, may not be all that familiar with. So, today I thought I’d ‘decode’ some of our common ‘nerd speak’…

10 Big Differences Between Lightroom Classic & Lightroom “Cloud”

Above: Lightroom ‘Cloud’ with its module-less interface. Howdy, folks. This is kind of a follow-up to Monday’s post where I answered the question of “Why does my Lightroom look different than your Lightroom?” (link) where…

LIVE FROM LOCKDOWN #12 Matching Photos, quick photo fixes and fix my photo.

In this weeks Live from Lockdown Colin Smith shows how to match the color between photos, Make any photo look better in just a few clicks, make a 3D can out of a picture (anyone…

Exploring Batch Editing Options

In this time at home I’ve been trying to learn about focus stacking as a way to keep shooting what is available to me right now. I’ve still got a lot to learn (which is…

Change day to night in Camera Raw, lighting photos in Photoshop.

I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first. Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock. 1.…

Why Does My Lightroom Look Different Than Yours?

I get this questions more than you might think, and it’s actually an easy answer: It’s because we’re using different versions of Lightroom, but both of them are current, up-to-date versions of Lightroom. Both share…

How I Use Lightroom’s Color Labels

I primarily rely on Pick Flags and just the singular 5-star rating to tag photos in Lightroom Classic, but there’s a particular situation where I use Color Labels as well, and thought you might find…

Live from Lockdown #11 Patching photos, content aware fill and cut out

May 28th live stream replay Colin fixes YOUR photos! How to use the Patch tool to clean up studio photos. How to use advanced content aware fill. Cutting out an object using quick select and…