In this video, I show you how to create a unique social media graphic that the couples you photograph can share on Instagram. While this is tailored for Valentine's Day, it would be perfect for things like engagements and weddings, too! Using Photoshop CC, I walk you through how to create something that shows the couple's love for each other in a creative way. Click here to register and download the brushes talked about in the video. You'll also get access to a ton more freebies! … [Read more...] about Create a unique Instagram photograph showing love
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Free Photoshop Webinar Today
We invite you to join us for Boosting Your Photoshop Workflow with New Technology with Richard Harrington How can AI, LUTs, and Tone mapping improve your images? Live Video Event in the Photoshop and Photography Group Saturday, February 16th at 11 AM Pacific Time. Join us here – https://www.facebook.com/events/376493476476815/ Would you like to dramatically improve how you work in Photoshop or Lightroom? In this Live Video event, you’ll learn how new and emerging technology can dramatically improve your photos. Join Rich Harrington as he … [Read more...] about Free Photoshop Webinar Today
Moving from Apple Photos in macOS Mojave 10.14 to Lightroom Classic CC
Apple's updated Photos app in Mojave included some very helpful features for those in their ecosystem, but still not enough for me to keep using Apple Photos over Lightroom Classic CC. In this post, we will show you a quick and dirty way to move your photos from Apple Photos to Lightroom Classic CC. For those of you who own a 2008-2011 Mac and haven't been able to update your Mac OS to Mojave, you can still move from Photos into Lightroom by following along with the guide here, which is confirmed to work for OSX 10.10-10.13 — although, this … [Read more...] about Moving from Apple Photos in macOS Mojave 10.14 to Lightroom Classic CC
Lightroom update highlights new Sensei-powered feature, Enhance Details
This morning, Adobe announced its February round of updates to its Lightroom ecosystem. The most exciting new feature is Enhance Details, which is powered by Adobe's Sensei technology. Harnessing the power of machine learning and computational photography, Enhance Details takes a brand new approach to demosaicing raw photos. An integral part to RAW processing, this technology enables users to increase the resolution of both Bayer and X-Trans based photos by up to 30%. Enhance Details works on any RAW file (apart from files converted to a … [Read more...] about Lightroom update highlights new Sensei-powered feature, Enhance Details
How to dodge, burn and create depth in Photoshop with soft light
(Editor's note: In this guest post, photographer Kelly Anderson shows a simple Photoshop technique that anyone can do to lighten or darken (dodge or burn) areas in a photo. Kelly Anderson is a photographer, often gathering inspiration from music, painting, photography and dancing. See her work on kellyandersonphoto.com.) I love Adobe Photoshop. It’s a big, wonderful whale of a program that offers something for everyone — from color management to image correction, compositing through video and 3D. Considering all of that, I have consistently … [Read more...] about How to dodge, burn and create depth in Photoshop with soft light
Cropping tricks in Lightroom Classic
One of my most used tools in Lightroom Classic has to be the cropping tool. While simple at its core, it can have a substantial effect to your photographs. And while we all know how to click and drag each edge to get the crop we want, the tool is much more powerful than that. Here are four cropping tricks to enhance your post-production workflow in Lightroom Classic. Get a centered crop You know the drill by now. Usually when cropping in Lightroom, you have to drag the points and then drag the crop to the position you'd like. And oftentimes, … [Read more...] about Cropping tricks in Lightroom Classic
How to develop video in Lightroom Classic
Editing video can get pretty complicated, and working with color grading and the overall style is no easy task. While I'm primarily a still photographer, I often take some videos for Instagram or other social media usage, in addition to some client work. So when it came to stylizing some quick videos, did I want to go through the process, clip-by-clip, in Premiere Pro? Or did I want to utilize a tool that I've used since day one of my photography? Believe it or not, you can style video in Lightroom — and I mean beyond just the Quick Develop … [Read more...] about How to develop video in Lightroom Classic
Tips to recover tough exposures
Sometimes, even the best of us have to deal with underexposed images. Here is a comparison between three popular RAW developing software plus important tips to help us in our quest to recover tough exposure! Starting point Bad location or bad lighting can leave us with tough exposures to recover. Fortunately, RAW files can be modified and enhanced with good developing software. With so many of them available on the market, it isn't always easy to know which one suits best our needs. I got into the game and edited the same image with three … [Read more...] about Tips to recover tough exposures
Understanding Lightroom Classic’s import dialog
A couple years ago, Adobe made headlines by completely revamping the import dialog in Lightroom Classic. Since then, they've restored the classic look and feel that much of us are used to. But there are still several options here that most of us don't utilize, and we're really missing out! Things like applying develop settings, metadata, smart previews and more are always available to us in the import dialog. And what's the difference between Add, Move, Copy and Copy as DNG menu items? Here's an introduction (or refresher) into the Lightroom … [Read more...] about Understanding Lightroom Classic’s import dialog
Warp-speed your culling in Lightroom
We shoot digital. We shoot a lot. Often way too much. Hey, that’s the beauty of it, right? One shot or a thousand shots cost the same if your memory card is good. But is that really true? Aside from the fact that I remember my fashion editorial days, when we shot three rolls of film for every image, if not four. That’s between 100 and 140 shots per image, not so different from what we do today — but I digress, although this is probably a good topic for another post. The point is if we have to spend hours culling our images, are those extra … [Read more...] about Warp-speed your culling in Lightroom
How to use Lightroom’s new Photomerge: HDR Panorama
Making panoramas is a wonderful way to photograph a scene with the best perspective. Shooting brackets for HDR is a wonderful way to get the best exposure for a scene. So why not do both? I've been doing both for several years, but it's always taken a lot of thought and process on the computer to get the pictures all put together. Do you do the HDR first, or stitch the panorama first? Lightroom's Classic's latest update brought the two together, and it's pretty awesome. Lightroom has processed HDR brackets and panoramas separately for several … [Read more...] about How to use Lightroom’s new Photomerge: HDR Panorama
How to create realistic snow in Photoshop
The problem with snow added in post-production is that it looks fake more often than not. That's a shame because creating realistic snow is much easier than people would think. Listen to the Canadian girl and keep on reading to know once and for all the secret to create realistic snow in Photoshop. What's wrong with fake snow? We've all seen pictures with snow. Some with real snow and some with dubious-white-copy-pasted-dots snow. Being a girl living in winter for half of the year, believe me, I know what snow should look like. If you want to … [Read more...] about How to create realistic snow in Photoshop
Quick Tip: Create a new copyright preset every year
It’s a good idea to create a new copyright preset at the end of each year — but don’t just overwrite the previous year’s preset. Keeping all year’s presets will give you the option to go back in time and add a previous year’s copyright information to images. Want to learn more? Check out the article "Have you created your 2017 copyright preset?" … [Read more...] about Quick Tip: Create a new copyright preset every year
Portrait Tips: Retouch portraits in a batch
Batch retouching is the holy grail of portrait finishing. You've shot a lot of good pictures you want to share, but you know your client will only buy a few. How do you prepare all the best pictures without spending hours retouching pictures that won't be chosen? Let me show you how to do some things with Lightroom and then allow Perfectly Clear to finish them off automatically. Batching in Lightroom In Lightroom, you can adjust all the pictures at the same time very easily. Start by adjusting one of the pictures you want to work on. Make any … [Read more...] about Portrait Tips: Retouch portraits in a batch
Getting started with Adobe Lightroom HDR panoramas
A few months ago I traveled to Knoxville, TN for my niece’s graduation. I took an afternoon to take a side trip down to the World’s Fair Expo center to do some architectural and travel photography. It was an overcast day and the afternoon thunderstorms started to roll in, but I wanted to photograph this really interesting outdoor amphitheater and noticed that I need to create a panorama in order to capture the entire structure from left to right. After metering the scene on my Nikon D850 I noticed that the contrast range was too great to … [Read more...] about Getting started with Adobe Lightroom HDR panoramas
Adobe releases updates to Lightroom Classic, CC
Overnight, Adobe released updates to its photography ecosystem, including Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC and Camera Raw. The updates contain a variety of improvements as well as support for new cameras and lenses. Lightroom Classic December's update to Lightroom Classic is focused on workflow and performance improvements. For a complete look at what's new, visit adobe.com. Customize Develop Panel You can now customize the order of the tools in the Develop module to reflect your workflow. Right-click on any panel header in the Develop … [Read more...] about Adobe releases updates to Lightroom Classic, CC
How to print borderless in Lightroom Classic
When I first received my Epson SureColor P800 printer for review, I was dumbfounded at how to print borderless through Lightroom Classic. The quality of the printer was great, but I was getting a 0.25" margin on the top, left and right sides of my 8.5" x 11" print, and a 0.56" margin on the bottom. I wanted no margins at all, but adjusting the sliders in Lightroom just presented me with an error message. So how do you print borderless in Lightroom? Turns out it's pretty simple. Page Setup The trick lies in the Page Setup menu. If … [Read more...] about How to print borderless in Lightroom Classic
How to change the look of the sky using a layer mask in Photoshop CC 2019
In this article and video, I'm going to show you how to change the look of the sky in a photograph using a basic layer mask that we attach to a curves adjustment layer, so we apply a different lighting to the sky portion of a photograph. You can also use this same technique to change any other parts of the photo as well. In addition, you'll notice that I open my RAW and TIFF files in Photoshop as Smart Objects. To learn more about how to do that, check out the article "Settings for Photoshop Camera RAW and a quick look at the adjustments … [Read more...] about How to change the look of the sky using a layer mask in Photoshop CC 2019
Enthusiast’s Guide: Creating a time-lapse from still images in Photoshop
Photofocus features a series on multi-shot photography excerpted from Rocky Nook’s “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Multi-Shot Techniques” by Alan Hess If you decide to create a time-lapse movie yourself — either because your camera can’t do it automatically or because you want to have all the individual image files for some other use —you can do it pretty easily in Photoshop. To make life easier, I suggest putting all the files that you will use to create the time-lapse into a unique folder. This way you can easily navigate to the folder when … [Read more...] about Enthusiast’s Guide: Creating a time-lapse from still images in Photoshop
Settings for Camera RAW and a quick look at the adjustments brush and dehaze filter
In this video, I'm going to show you how I setup Camera RAW in Photoshop so that it will open your RAW files as 16-bit objects in the Adobe RGB color space. Then we'll apply a lens correction for the lens you used. Finally, we'll take a quick look at using the dehaze tool with the adjustments brush in Camera RAW, and how to use the luminance range mask to limit the application of the dehaze filter. Watch the video Thanks for watching and I hope you found this helpful! Click here to learn more about the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography … [Read more...] about Settings for Camera RAW and a quick look at the adjustments brush and dehaze filter
Use Creative Cloud? Renew early and save
We're sorry to interrupt your holiday if you are celebrating. But if you're an Adobe Creative Cloud user (or want to be) this is a great sale and it only lasts for one day. These offers expire 11/23/18. Creative Cloud This offer is supposed to be for first-time buyers (but you can create a new Adobe ID if you aren't feeling new enough) The entire collection of 20+ creative desktop and mobile apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Includes: 100GB of cloud storage, Adobe Portfolio, … [Read more...] about Use Creative Cloud? Renew early and save
Quick Tip: Use a single Lightroom catalog
A single Lightroom catalog makes managing Lightroom a lot easier. Having just one catalog will: Help you find images faster Keep track of backups Ensures you don’t lose track of images because you import images into the wrong catalog Quickly update the catalog when a new version of Lightroom is available Synchronizing Publish services such as Facebook, Zenfolio and Smugmug Hierarchy Want to learn more? Check out this article, "Should I have One or Many Lightroom Catalogs?" … [Read more...] about Quick Tip: Use a single Lightroom catalog
Speed up your Lightroom Classic catalog on Fusion Drive Macs
For the past few months, I've had a heck of a time with Lightroom Classic running slowly on my iMac. While my iMac is from late 2015, it's fully loaded. Tons of memory, a good graphics card and a modern-day processor. But it's had its share of problems too, between random restarts and a Fusion drive that slows things down. The Fusion Drive problem When Apple first introduced Fusion Drives, it was a great solution to get a fast solid state drive (SSD) coupled with a traditional hard drive, for a combination of speed and storage. The problem is … [Read more...] about Speed up your Lightroom Classic catalog on Fusion Drive Macs
Quick Tip: Lock your panels and workspace in Photoshop CC 2019
In the newest update of Photoshop CC 2019 (version 20.0.0), Adobe has made it easy to lock your panels so you can avoid accidentally dragging them off the interface. To do this, go to Window, Workspace, Lock Workspace. This locks your panels and the placement of them, but you can still resize them. Note that this does not impact your document tabs, so you can still easily move those around to manage your workspace. … [Read more...] about Quick Tip: Lock your panels and workspace in Photoshop CC 2019
Adobe gives a sneak peek of upcoming technologies at MAX Conference
On Tuesday, Adobe gave a sneak peek to attendees of the Adobe MAX Conference, of upcoming technologies that may or may not make it into future versions of Creative Cloud applications. Co-hosted by Adobe's Senior Creative Cloud Evangelist Paul Trani and comedian, actress and writer Tiffany Haddish, the "Sneaks" showed 10 short demos led by Adobe engineers. There were three Sneaks geared towards photographers and videographers, outlined below. #ProjectSmoothOperator If you've ever felt constrained by Instagram's vertical video format, … [Read more...] about Adobe gives a sneak peek of upcoming technologies at MAX Conference
Exclusive: The state of Lightroom, and what’s next
At this week's Adobe MAX Conference, Adobe again announced updates for its line of photo management and editing tools — Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic. And while the two tools continue to live somewhat separated from each other, there's a question as to what's in store for these products in the future, especially given the increasing level of competition on the market today. I had the privilege of sitting down with Tom Hogarty, Senior Director of Product Management for Lightroom, at Adobe MAX to discuss the current state of both … [Read more...] about Exclusive: The state of Lightroom, and what’s next
Creating custom black-and-white effects with the on image tool in Photoshop
Photoshop offers a very compelling black and white adjustment layer. But to get the results that you want, you should take advantage of the on image tool. You learned about this tool earlier when we looked at curves. Well, let's see how it can actually work as well for black and white adjustments. Let's explore techniques to create black and white images with the on image tool. Now I've got two images here. One is the N state and one is a starting image that you'll work with. Now the N state just shows you how things came together. And it … [Read more...] about Creating custom black-and-white effects with the on image tool in Photoshop
Quick Tip: Use Photoshop’s Face-Aware Liquify to quickly slim a face
What to slim a subject's face? Use Photoshop's Face-Aware Liquify tool. Photoshop’s Liquify tool has been used by many photographers and retouchers to slim a subject or to accent their curves. It’s a very powerful tool that took a little getting used to. Adobe added Face-Aware Liquify in Photoshop CC 2015.5. This new addition to the Liquify family uses sliders; making it simple to cosmetically adjust a subject’s eyes, nose, mouth, and face shape. The key to retouching is not to go overboard. Want to learn more? Check out this article, "How … [Read more...] about Quick Tip: Use Photoshop’s Face-Aware Liquify to quickly slim a face
Live Blog: Adobe MAX Keynote, Day 2
Thank you for joining us for the Day 2 Keynote at the Adobe MAX Conference! This page updates automatically; please do not refresh. … [Read more...] about Live Blog: Adobe MAX Keynote, Day 2
Exclusive: Diving into the future of Photoshop CC
Fresh off the announcement of Photoshop CC for the iPad, I had the chance to sit down with Stephen Nielson, Director of Project Management for Photoshop, to discuss the new platform for Adobe's flagship program. We spoke in-depth about the updates for the desktop version of Photoshop and touched on what users should expect from the iPad experience. Photoshop has evolved year after year since its introduction in 1990, and the 2019 version brings some notable updates for both photographers and designers. "What we have in Photoshop is an … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Diving into the future of Photoshop CC
