Change the Lightroom Classic background color
Bryan Esler
Want to switch out the background color in Lightroom? It’s easy. Select Lightroom CC > Preferences from the top toolbar (or on Windows, go to Edit > Preferences), and then
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Quick Tip: Create a new copyright preset every year
Vanelli
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
Quick Tip: Use a single Lightroom catalog
Vanelli
A single Lightroom catalog makes managing Lightroom a lot easier.
Quick Tip: Share your Perfectly Clear presets to a new machine
Bryan Esler
Have a new machine, or want to share your Perfectly Clear presets with an editor or another photographer? Perfectly Clear 3.5 makes it really easy. To get started, click the
Quick Tip: Lock your panels and workspace in Photoshop CC 2019
Bryan Esler
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
Quick Tip: Use Photoshop’s Face-Aware Liquify to quickly slim a face
Vanelli
What to slim a subject’s face? Use Photoshop’s Face-Aware Liquify tool.
Quick Tip: Use the LR/GMail plugin for Lightroom to send exported images from your Gmail account
Vanelli
Check out how to use the LR/GMail export plugin for Lightroom to send exported images via your Gmail account.
Quick Tip: Cycle through a layer’s blend mode to seamlessly blend two images together
Vanelli
Replacing a background of an image can be a challenge. The trick is to find the right background that has similar colors, tones, lighting and looks like it belongs to
Quick Tip: Boost your creativity with LUTs
Chris Anson
LUTs can give your creativity a boost. Trying different LUTs with your RAW photographs can quickly give you a cool, warm or “other-worldly look,” that you fine tune from there.
Quick Tip: Reset Lightroom Classic sliders
Bryan Esler
Sure, there’s a big “Reset” button in Lightroom Classic, putting your edited photo back to its original state. But what if you need to reset just some of the adjustments
Quick Tip: Search Lightroom Classic’s Metadata to Find an Image’s Copyright Status
Vanelli
Looking for a quick way to find images you haven’t set as being copyrighted? To find all images with an unknown copyright status in Lightroom Classic, click Metadata on the
Quick Tip: Use Lightroom’s Flags to Temporarily Select an Image for Editing
Vanelli
Once images are imported into your Lightroom Classic catalog, quickly review each image and select your favorites. The trick is NOT to make this a time-consuming task. One option is
Quick Tip: Photographers, Choose the Sync Option When Backing Up a Hard Drive
Vanelli
When choosing a backup method, select the Sync option, here’s why. We want two identical drives to be the same bit-for-bit. If the main drive fails, we simply swap and
Quick Tip: Creating Two Versions of an Image in Lightroom Classic
Bryan Esler
Remember how I showed you the power of snapshots in Adobe Lightroom Classic? Well, sometimes you need to produce multiple versions of the same image, whether it’s to have two
Quick Tip: Photoshop Curves Made Drop Dead Easy
Rich Harrington
Find Curves a little confusing? Try this simple tip. Most users will either use Curves a lot or they won’t use it at all. The Curves interface is more complex
Quick Tip: Visualize Sensor Spots in Lightroom
Bryan Esler
Sensor dust is bound to impact our photographs at some time. But there’s a quick and easy way to visualize these spots — and get rid of them. Click the Spot
Quick Tip: Open Almost Any Image in Adobe Camera Raw
Rich Harrington
Want to open almost any image in Camera Raw? It turns out that you can! You can, in fact, open TIFF and JPEG files using the Camera Raw plug-in. Here’s
Quick Tip: Saturation vs. Vibrance
Bryan Esler
There are two sliders in Lightroom and most other post-processors that can be handy for adjusting the intensity of your colors. Think of saturation like ISO, but for color —
Quick Tip: What happened to “Camera Calibration” in Lightroom Classic Creative Cloud?
Steve Eilenberg
I develop images in Adobe Lightroom Creative Cloud (LR CC) using a top-down approach, starting with “Basic”. The one rule breaker was “Camera Calibration”, the very last menu item. When
Quick Tip: Dehaze Side Effects
Tim Grey
The Dehaze adjustment in Lightroom is able to dramatically improve the appearance of haze in a photo, but not without some potential side effects. In this quick tip, you’ll learn
Quick Tip: Import to this Folder
Tim Grey
When it comes to keeping your Lightroom catalog tidy and organized, the import stage of your workflow is critically important. In this quick tip, you’ll learn a great shortcut for