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Here’s a Lightroom Finishing Move I Do To Nearly All My Images

It’s really simple, but it makes a big difference. Give it a try, and see what you think. Over on my other blog today: (1) We launched a new conference (our last one for this…

Best of Both Worlds for Masking Skies

The new AI powered Select Sky function for finding and selecting all of a sky in Lightroom Classic (LrC), Lightroom, and Camera Raw (ACR) is an incredibly powerful and welcome tool. However, there are some…

Three-Click Portrait Background Color Change In Lightroom

Heads up: first, I posted some thoughts on my disappointment at what it appears will be missing on the new iPhone’s camera, along with announcing some new in-person speaking events, over on my daily blog…

How To Use Lightroom’s ‘Guided Edit ‘For Fixing Perspective Issues

Back when I did my online course called “A Photographer’s Guide to Chicago,” one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you could shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains).…

How to “Clone” Inside of Lightroom (and the Photoshop World Conference is Almost Here)

This is a quick, easy trick to do something you probably didn’t think Lightroom could do. Check it out below: Pretty cool little trick, eh? Tons of Lightroom Classes Coming UP At the Photoshop World…

How Would This Photo Look in Black & White?

If you’ve ever wondered that about one of your images, here’s a super quick way in Lightroom Classic to see a preview of it in black and white, and then we’ll look at what to…

Masking Hack: Part 2

Last month I shared a way to trick the Select Sky function to select the reflection in water using either Camera Raw (ACR) or via sync to the desktop version of Lightroom (Lr) when starting…

Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies

Ok, I’ll admit right away that this is not pretty, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. Perhaps someone will figure out a more elegant solution (like Adobe), and I’d love to hear…