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Retouching a session of headshots is quick and easy with the AI masking tools in Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop.

AI masking: Fast headshot retouching

Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom make skin smoothing and other retouching enhancements fast, thanks to AI. Masking people in Camera Raw and Lightroom This works in Bridge or Lightroom Classic. Select a set of headshots and follow the following steps. Step one: Open the RAW files selected in Bridge by

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New in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW: Easily select people

Adobe has made it easy to select people in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. The Masking Panel helps you achieve precise editing, quickly adjusting skin, teeth, eyes and more. How does it do this? Adobe Camera RAW 15 and Lightroom 12 automatically detect all the people in the photo using

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Processing your water droplet photos

Once you have achieved a good capture of your water droplet crash and crown, it’s time to process the file. Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw are my go-to manipulation programs, along with a plugin or two. Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) First stop is Adobe Camera Raw. ACR allows me to

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RAW creativity: Directing the viewer’s eye

The human eye is attracted to contrast — it can’t not see a bright area against a dark background. Pointing your viewer’s eyes to your subject is easy in Camera Raw, but it works in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, too. It’s also a great technique to use in black and

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RAW creativity: Working with Snapshots in Camera Raw

Camera Raw — either in Bridge or Photoshop — is my favorite RAW processor. If it only had virtual copies to explore effects as Lightroom Classic does. Well, there are Camera Raw snapshots. What are they? Every adjustment made in Camera Raw can be captured with individual snapshots. This makes

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Why I use Adobe Bridge

Sometimes I think it’s because it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. The reality is that I choose to work with one system of Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) rather than try to learn a newer program and workflow such as Lightroom. The old saying applies,

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Landscape color grading with Adobe’s all-new selective masks

In the above video, learn how the brand-new selective masks in Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw can power advanced landscape editing. These techniques cover the all new masks introduced at Adobe MAX 2021. Click here to see more videos on how to get started with masking.

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Explore what’s new for photographers in Creative Cloud

Starting at 4 p.m. ET, join Adobe live as pro photographer Kristi Odom explores what’s new for photographers in Creative Cloud. Tune in, get your questions answered and learn how to enhance your workflows with Lightroom and Photoshop’s newest features. Stay tuned to Photofocus all this week as we continue

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