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How to Match colors between photos in Photoshop

Hey CAFE Crew, You know what can be difficult? When you combine photos in Photoshop, (also known as photo compositing) the different photos often don’t match. The colors and tones are different and it makes…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds: Getting The Brightness Of Your Prints to Match What You Saw On Screen

If you’ve ever made a print and it came out way darker than what you saw on screen, here’s a great Lightroom Classic tip on how to get the two to match so your print…

How to Tether a Sony Camera to Lightroom Classic

OK, Sony’s can’t tether directly into Lightroom (Sony won’t share their secret tethering code with Adobe, like Nikon and Canon have for years), so we have to use a workaround…but hey, it works. Here’s how…

What To Do When Lightroom Can’t Find Your Lens Profile

Let me know if this has happened to you (I can’t be the only one, right?). If you’ve ever had an image that needed a lens correction (maybe it had barrel distortion or edge vignetting),…

The April 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!

The April 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, we take a closer look at some very useful Photoshop features that you may have never tried…

How to Animate in Photoshop, Video animation

This is the beginning file. It contains 3 layers. A background, a jet and the flame for the afterburner, called exhaust. We are going to animate the jet from the top of the screen…

My Lightroom Classic Tethering Set-up

Here’s the final shot you see me making in the BTS shot below. Back on Monday, I did a post about Segmenting when you’re shooting tethering into Lightroom Classic, and I get a lot of…

The Role of Metadata

Lightroom Classic’s catalog is simply a database of information about our photos. Learning how to edit and add to that information can help us manage, find, and organize our photos over time. Metadata is information…