I’ve been enjoying the Pre-shooting function on the Canon EOS R6 MkII (also found on the R10, R7, and R8). Pre-shooting is part of the Raw Burst Mode feature, which when enabled allows you to also enable Pre-shooting. With Pre-shooting enabled, you half-press the shutter to acquire focus, which also starts a temporary recording of the scene, so that when you fully press the shutter you end up with about 1/2 second of photos from before you pressed the shutter. This can be great for any kind of anticipated fast action, like waiting for a bird to take flight or a batter striking a ball or a wate ..read more

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Picking up from last week where we covered renaming catalogs, folders, and collections, let’s run through the rest of the files you might want to rename. Renaming Photos There are a few opportunities to rename photos in your workflow. You can choose to rename as part of the import process, you can rename from within the Library module after import, and you can even choose to rename the copies created during export. One thing all these options have in common is that they can leverage Filename templates. Several Filename templates are included by default, but you can create as many custom Filena ..read more

There are a lot of different files associated with using Lightroom Classic (LrC) workflow and being able to exert our will in renaming files with more meaningful names can help improve that workflow. In this article I’m breaking out the steps for renaming everything I can think of that relates to what makes LrC work. Bookmark this one for the future when you need a handy reference. [This article first appeared in the February issue of Photoshop User Magazine – Rob] Some of these files you may only rename once in a while, for some the process is straight forward, some have a few methods, and so ..read more

Hi gang, and it’s a glorious Monday (and I’m on my way to Zurich, Switzerland this afternoon with my brother Jeffrey – a Christmas gift from my awesome wife). Just a quickie today, but it’s kinda important — especially if you’re working on a laptop or a desktop computer where you’re constantly running out of free space. I am officially declaring today ‘Dump Your Outdated Catalog Backups” Monday! Simply put: Check to see if you’re accumulating a bunch of useless outdated backup catalogs, and throw the ones away you don’t need anymore to free up space You see that dialog above — the ..read more

Check out the video below for the scoop on the new book, which includes the lighting, the shooting, and of course, the Lightroom and Photoshop retouching techniques (and you get to download the images and follow right along with each set-up). Check out the official trailer below: The book is available in print, or eBook, and is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, direct from the Publisher Rocky Nook, or wherever photography books are sold. Well, I’m off to Switzerland with my brother Jeff for one of our annual brother’s trips. I haven’t been to Switzerland since my wife, and I was dat ..read more

It is no secret that Photoshop is an incredibly powerful image editing tool for all kinds of photographers. However, if you aren’t an expert Photoshop user, you may find the program difficult to use and lacking in easy-to-apply effects to make your photos look better in just a few simple clicks.  If you’ve browsed the internet lately, you’ve probably seen various Photoshop plugins meant to be launched directly from Photoshop to achieve specific effects on your images. Different plugins exist for different things, from editing your portraits, fixing noise, or even using AI technology to re ..read more

It’s the fourth installment of our retouching column: last time, we looked at retouching teeth, and also wound up brightening the whites of the eyes. This time around, we’re going to look at a very common retouch: reducing wrinkles and dark circles under the eyes. Our goal when we retouch wrinkles is not to remove them but to reduce their intensity. With wrinkles, the darker the shadows appear, the deeper the wrinkles look, and the older our subject looks. So we’re going to look at making the wrinkles look less deep and less intense without removing them altogether, which would make our subjec ..read more

The March 2023 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and the KelbyOne app for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to use Photoshop Express to quickly and easily add special effects, graphic overlays, text, and looks to your phone images; plus, retouching hot spots in Lightroom; using Lightroom to import images into Lightroom Classic; turning your photos into chalk drawings in Photoshop; creating stained glass portraits in Photoshop; creating three different posters with one image; and so much more! This issue’s cover image by KelbyOne me ..read more

They feel like Presets, but in some ways, they’re better than presets, or maybe I should say, they make Presets even better. Anyway, I talk to people all the time who have heard about these Creative Profiles, and while some are using the RAW profiles, a lot of folks are missing out on the perhaps more awesome Creative Profiles, so today we’re looking at “Three Reasons Why Lightroom’s Creative Profiles Are So Handy! NOTE: The Creative Profiles are found by clicking on the little four-rectangle icon near the top right of the Basic panel, right below “Black & White.” Using a Creative Profile ..read more