An In-Depth Look at the Range Mask in Lightroom Classic CC
Lightroom is an ever-changing ever-morphing evolution of the cutting edge of digital image processing. Quite literally, it seems like Adobe releases new features and updates for their upper tier...
View ArticleAvoid These 4 Post-Processing Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Images
Post-processing is a particularly sensitive topic and there’s always a certain amount of processing versus non-processing discussions that take place after articles on the topic. It’s not hard to...
View Article5 Lightroom Tips and Tricks for Beginners
If you have recently started using the Adobe Lightroom software and are looking for some exciting tips and hacks, this article is the perfect read for you. Lightroom is one such software which allows...
View ArticleBasic Photoshop Tutorial – How to Add Creative Overlays to Your Portraits
I’ve been shooting these moody portraits lately and I thought about adding some creative overlays to a few to make them a little different and more interesting. Here is a basic tutorial on how to add...
View ArticleHow to Set Up the Photoshop Interface and Workspace for Maximum Efficiency
You wouldn’t start cooking dinner and go to the supermarket each time you need an ingredient, that wouldn’t be very efficient, right? For any activity you want to undergo in life it’s always best to...
View ArticleHow to Use the Lightroom Editing Trifecta: History, Snapshots, and Virtual...
I often find myself knee-deep into editing a photo when an idea hits me to try something totally different. Maybe it’s exploring different cropping options, creating a black-and-white version, or...
View ArticleTips for Processing Night Photography with ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5
For many students, as they start learning photography they want to know how to take photos at night. It is a mystery to them and they often think it is so complicated that they will never be able to do...
View ArticleHow to Organize Your Photos by Location in Lightroom
You likely know Adobe Lightroom as a powerful piece of photo-editing software. It’s known as the industry standard for photography post-production, especially when paired with Photoshop. You may also...
View ArticleHow to Create a Multiple Exposure Effect in Photoshop
If your ideas are more than a photo, why not combine two or three of them in a single image? When you want to create something surreal, ghostly or that is just beyond what you can capture in a single...
View ArticleHow to Edit Old Images with Your New Skill Set
This article is going to be a little different from some of the others I’ve written. It’s going to be more like a journal entry or a reflection. It’s very personal in some ways but the ideas within...
View ArticleUnlocking the Power of the Basic Panel in Lightroom
Lightroom is anything but intuitive for new photographers. Its multitude of panels, sliders, menus, and buttons are enough to make your head spin. But fortunately, there’s hope for even the most...
View ArticleLightroom Local Adjustments – Radial Filter Versus the Adjustment Brush
Adobe Lightroom is image editing software that allows you to edit and make color adjustments to your photos. Among many, the Radial Filter and Adjustment Brush are two very useful local adjustment...
View ArticleHow to Merge Multiple Lightroom Catalogs Into One
In Lightroom, a catalog is a database that tracks the location of your photos and information about them. When you edit your photos and add metadata or keywords to them in Lightroom, all of these...
View ArticleHow to Make Image-Filled Shapes in Photoshop
Photoshop may not be primarily a graphics program but it still comes with very useful tools for that kind of work. For example, making image-filled shapes. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing some...
View ArticleHow to Find Your Best Photos Using Compare View In Lightroom Classic CC
To compare your images in Lightroom, you can either use Survey View or Compare View. In this article, I will focus on Compare View in Lightroom Classic CC. Comparing images allows you to choose the...
View Article10 Lightroom Tricks That Will Make Your Life Easier
When it comes to Lightroom, there is a lot to learn, and we tend to pay the most attention to the big things like understanding how to organize images and which sliders to use to improve our photos....
View ArticleHow to Create Custom Brushes in Photoshop
The Brush Tool in Photoshop is one of the most versatile and it can be used for many applications. It already comes with many useful brushes preloaded into the program and you can find even more...
View ArticleTips for Portrait Processing with ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5
There are many genres within the framework of photography and one that is very popular is portraits. As such, many photographers are looking for great software that can help them make their portraits...
View ArticleHow to Create Memorable Family Albums Using the Lightroom Book Module
There is little quite as delightful as going through family albums, reliving memories and watching how things have changed over the years. Having digital copies is great but nothing really beats the...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why I Finally Bit the Bullet Switched to Adobe Creative Cloud
When Adobe announced that they were transitioning their apps to a subscription model of the Adobe Creative Cloud in 2013, I almost fell out of my chair while clutching the cardboard box for my copy of...
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