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View ArticleHow to Use the Text Tool in Photoshop
As photographers, we often swear by the mantra that a picture speaks a thousand words. Yet there are some instances when we just wish we could add a word or two to help facilitate the understanding of...
View ArticleHow to Accelerate the Development of Your Personal Photographic Style with...
If you want more Lightroom help from Viktor, get 50% OFF his Four Seasons Lightroom Preset Collection, on now at Snapdeals (only until July 19th, 2016) Over the years, Lightroom has become the most...
View ArticleTips for Processing Landscape Photos – from Basic Edits to Artistic...
All professional, and many hobbyist photographers, post-process their photos. There are various reasons why you want to edit your photos, besides the fact RAW files need some level of processing,...
View ArticleHow to Enhance Portraits Using Gray Layers to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop
What is dodging and burning? The techniques of dodging and burning are hand-me-downs from the days of the darkroom. The idea was to manipulate parts of an image while the paper was being exposed to...
View ArticleStylized Techniques for Editing Portraits Using Lightroom
This is the promised follow-up to my article on Creating Compelling Wide-Angle Portraits Using One Off-Camera Flash. While part one discussed equipment, composition, lighting and posing, this article...
View ArticleHow to Use Upright Guided Tools in Lightroom’s New Transform Section
In their latest release of Lightroom 6.6 (or CC 2015.6 if you are using the Creative Cloud subscription package), Adobe has added a new feature, allowing us photographers to straighten our images even...
View ArticleUsing Lightroom’s Transform and Crop Tools to Improve Composition
Everybody loves to get it right in camera. But if you don’t, you have plenty of tools to help you make it right. Lightroom is one of the best available, and the easiest to use. In this article I’ll...
View ArticleHow to Use Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to Make Your Landscape Images Pop
Photoshop is a wonderful tool if it is used correctly. Yes, there is a way to use it right. The basic idea is that if someone can see the adjustments you have made to your image, that’s not so good....
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know to Master Lightroom
Today we launched a brand new dPS course to help you get total control over Adobe Lightroom. For a short time you can grab it with a 50% off early bird discount. Are you frustrated with the time you’re...
View ArticleSolving the Biggest Newbie Confusions with Lightroom by Phil Steele
Photography educator Phil Steele has taught Lightroom to tens of thousands of people. In this video tutorial he helps clear up the biggest confusion around using Lightroom that most beginners have –...
View ArticleHow to Use Split Toning to Make Your Photos Stand Out
Have you ever taken a picture and then been disappointed, because it didn’t capture the moment? Maybe it looked exactly like what you saw, but when you viewed the image afterwards it was lacking...
View ArticleLightroom Mastery: The Power of the Adjustment Brush
If there is one thing I wish I would have spent more time learning early on in my time with Lightroom, it’s the adjustment brush. Lightroom is an incredible editing tool, arguably the easiest one to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winners of the Corel AfterShot Pro Editing Software
A huge thank you to everyone who entered our recent contest to win one of 10 copies of Corel’s AfterShot Pro 3 Photo Editor Software. This was an “After” themed competition, and so many of you shared...
View ArticleHow to Use Smart Objects in Photoshop
We have all felt the frustration of editing an image either in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), only to remember that we forgot to adjust the white balance, or tweak the sharpening after we’ve...
View ArticleHow to Add a Soft Focus Look to Your Images for a Unique Style
Soft focus photographs present themselves with a tranquil and almost dream-like effect. They have become quite popular, and can be found to some extent in many genres of photography, from portraits to...
View ArticleHow to Size and Export Images from Lightroom for Facebook and Print
One of the most confusing features of Adobe Lightroom for many users, is how to get your final results out of the software, to show them to friends or to send to customers. Different from other...
View ArticleHow to Create an Effective Workflow and Image Organization
Lets face it, we all love to take pictures, basically to get out there and photograph what makes us happy and gets our creative juices flowing. Many of us, myself included, hate sitting in front of the...
View ArticleImage Editing Software Overview – On1 Photo 10
Since the advent of digital photography there has been one program that has been the penultimate of all image editing – Adobe Photoshop. There is no denying that it is powerful, but many find it...
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If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Adobe Lightroom, now’s your chance to do it with our brand new Lightroom Mastery Course – and if you act fast you can save 50%! Over the last few years here...
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