This Months Highlights:
- LUBA RICKET CREATIVE COMPETITION
- FOCUS ON: DAN STEEN/SPAIN
- ON THE ROAD AGAIN, EAST GREENBUSH
- TO SHARE OR NOT TO SHARE, ERIC BENNETT
- FIELD TRIPS WITH JANICE PRICHETT
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Creating Droplets to Run on Export
First, let’s create a droplet. You’ll first need an action that you would want to run as part of your export process. For example, while it is easy enough to send a copy to Photoshop…
Stop Scrolling Through Your Lightroom Panels
Instead, jump straight to the panel you want to work in. Here’s how: Press Command-1 (PC: Ctrl-1) to jump to the top panel in your right side panels (in the Develop module, that would be…
Mac Ventura Bug Affecting Droplets
While not something I do a lot, there are a few situations where I use a droplet as part of my export process from Lightroom Classic (LrC). A droplet is a way to take a…
How To Keep From Scrolling Again and Again Through Your Lightroom Panels
This is how to use “Solo Mode” (one of my favorite Lightroom settings) to speed up your workflow. In Solo Mode, only the panel you’re currently working within is visible, while all the rest are…
The Little Lightroom Finishing Move That Makes a Big Difference
This is a simple move – one where I use the same setting every time – and I do this to nearly all of my images as a finishing move after all the rest of my editing…
Lightroom Tip Tuesday: How to Reorder (or Hide) Your Panels in the Develop Module
You can make your workflow more efficient by putting your panels in the order you want them (most often used to least used) and hiding the ones you don’t use at all. Check out this…
How To Remove Darkening in the Corners of Your Image
Hi, gang – hope you had an awesome Easter (and maybe checked out some UFL football, which was actually really fun). I know we talk a lot here about adding subtle edge darkening to our…
The Quick Trick For Sharpening Women’s or Children’s Skin
This is how to use one very powerful slider in Lightroom’s Detail panel to apply sharpening just to your subject’s detail areas (eyes, eyebrows, lips, etc.) without making their skin harsh and grainy (it’s okay…
Are Some of Your Lightroom Photos Stuck in “Syncing Hell?”
UPDATE: A very lucky photographer picked up the last ticket to my Santorini, Greece, travel photography workshop this April, so we are officially sold out. Venice/Dolomites and Norway’s Lofoten Islands workshops are still coming up…
The Lightroom Conference is Coming, and some news from England
I’m back from a wonderful experience teaching at “The Photography Show” in England, but first, an important heads up: The KelbyOne Lightroom Conference is coming up next month, and today, we released our official trailer…
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Hover Layer in Photoshop
New way to see layers in Photoshop, Hover Layer Bounds Here is a new Photoshop feature that helps you see what layer something is on. If you work with multiple layers, like compositing, you will…
How to Create an Eclipse Sequence in Photoshop, complete guide
Complete guide to making an eclipse sequence in Photoshop 2024 Just in time for the April 8th 2024 American Total Solar Eclipse. You have captured your eclipse photos, now what? Here is how you can…
How to photograph a Solar Eclipse
How to Photograph and view April 8th 2024 Total Solar Eclipse I’m sure you are probably aware a total Solar Eclipse is going to occur on April 8 2024 in North America. Maybe you have…
Generative ai now Matches your photo or sketch, Structure Reference in Adobe Firefly
How to use Structure Reference in Adobe Firefly A new Edition has been added to Adobe Firefly. This is called Structure Reference. It allows you to upload a photo or a sketch to help guide…
How to wrap text around images. Photoshop text wrap.
Photoshop doesn’t have a dedicated text wrap tool, but you can still make paragraphs of text wrap around images. The trick lies in using a long running feature in Photoshop call type in a path,…
New Features in March 2024 update to Photoshop 25.5.1
New Features in Photoshop 25.5.1 March 2024 update In this tutorial, we will look at the new features added to Photoshop, as well as how to update Photoshop. This is a dot release, so it’s…
Create Adjustment Layer Presets in Photoshop
New in Photoshop: create custom Adjustment Layer presets and share them. Adjustment Presets were added to Photoshop recently, but we couldn’t make our own presets until now. They have a lot of advantages over actions…
The Mystery of the “Missing Transform Panel” in Camera Raw
I know a lot of you move back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop in your workflow, and if you take an image over there and open Camera Raw, you might surprised (well, I was)…
Dodge and Burn Photos in Photoshop with the Adjustment Brush
Advanced tutorial for Photoshop Adjustment Brush, Dodge and Burn To dodge and burn is to paint with light and shadow. By doing this, we can add depth to photos. We can also use it to…
New Adjustment Brush in Photoshop
How to use the Adjustment Brush in Photoshop There is a new feature in Photoshop, which is only available in the public beta of Photoshop 2024 at the time of this writing. How to get…