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Exploring the World with the Map Module

I don’t utilize the Map module with all of my photography, but I’m grateful it is there when I have a project that is a good fit. There’s a sweet little river that passes near…

How to Create a realistic beam of sunlight in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to create a beam of sunlight falling into a forest. We will even add some pollen to make it look a little more magical. The original is an…

Lightroom in 60-Seconds Videos: It’s Double-Déjà vu Tuesday

So….when I was recording my latest round of Lightroom in 60-Seconds I somehow wound up recording two tips that I already did last year, but I thought maybe you might have missed them (wishful thinking?),…

How to Apply An Auto Correction Automatically On Import (and why you might want to in the first place)

This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below), and it brought up another question: If you were to create a preset that applied an Auto Adjustment,…

The “Gotcha” of Applying Multiple Presets in Lightroom

First, I want to thank everybody who attended our first ever, two-day online Lightroom Conference. It was just incredible, without over 1,000 photographers attending and the end-of-conference survey results are just over-the-moon with how much…

Preparing Photos in Lightroom Classic to be Printed Online

Let’s dig into the decisions you’ll need to make regarding the Lightroom Classic prep side of the process. One other recommendation I’ll make is that once you select your print provider (or while you are…

How to Emboss a logo or icon in Photoshop

When I first discovered this technique over 20 years ago, I decided to see how far I could push it. That experimentation led to me creating a series of Photorealistic illustrations entirely made in Photoshop…

Tomorrow Our Two-Day Live Online Lightroom Conference Kicks Off

It’s here — tomorrow we kick off two full days of live online Lightroom learning featuring two simultaneous training tracks, taught by the very best instructors in the business. Hundreds and hundreds of photographers around the…