You can do a lot in Photoshop. It’s no secret that Photoshop is one of, if not the most powerful photo editing programs in the world. For years, Adobe’s pinnacle program has been the gold standard in photo editing. In the last few years, Photoshop plugins have been on the rise, and there are now thousands of different plugins available for Photoshop. These plugins can do a variety of things, from adding special effects, to removing noise, or even resizing your photo or using AI technology to remove stray hairs from your model. Many plugins allow you to do things to your image that you otherwis ..read more

You can do a lot in Photoshop. It’s no secret that Photoshop is one of, if not the most powerful photo editing programs in the world. For years, Adobe’s pinnacle program has been the gold standard in photo editing. In the last few years, Photoshop plugins have been on the rise, and there are now thousands of different plugins available for Photoshop. These plugins can do a variety of things, from adding special effects, to removing noise, or even resizing your photo or using AI technology to remove stray hairs from your model. Many plugins allow you to do things to your image that you otherwis ..read more

By Ross Shain If you enjoy exploring lighting and special effects in your edits and would like to do more in Lightroom without jumping to Photoshop, this tutorial might be for you. Boris FX Optics is a unique plugin, literally packed with creative options. Optics can be used for subtle lighting and color grades to full blown Marvel film style photo manipulations. Here, I’ll show how Optics can be used to add cinematic lens flares, particles and chromatic aberrations to make your shots stand out. The tutorial was done with Optics in Lightroom Classic, but the same steps will work with Photosho ..read more

By Richard Harrington We’ve all faced the same problem: photographs that lack contrast; images where the shadows and highlights look flat and the details are muddy. While the problem is common, the solutions are many. In this article, I want to show you several easy fixes (using built-in tools) — including some uncommon ones — that you should explore. We’ll also take a look at Aurora HDR, which works as a plugin to both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. The Problem You open up an image and it just feels flat. Your mind doesn’t remember the scene this way, but your camera sure does. What’s ..read more

Issue 48 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne Pro members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn tips and techniques for capturing beautiful wildlife images from photography blinds, plus building custom creative profiles, using all the latest features in the Book module, a look at the new Enhanced Details feature, and so much more! KelbyOne Pro members have access to more than 60 back issues of Photoshop User magazine all the way back to January 2012, plus all 48 issues of Lightroom Magazine. Not a Pro member yet? Click here ..read more

Issue 46 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne Pro members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, check out all the new features in the recent Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC updates. Plus, an in-depth look at the new Depth Range Masking feature, preparing photos for online labs, shooting by the seashore, a concert photography workflow, and so much more! KelbyOne Pro members have access to more than 60 back issues of Photoshop User magazine all the way back to January 2012, plus all 46 issues of Lightroom Magazine. Not a Pro ..read more

Excerpt from Scott Kelby’s How Do I Do That In Lightroom? book. In the Library module’s Grid view, Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the images you want to combine into a single panoramic image. Go under the Photo menu, under Photo Merge, and choose Panorama. In a few moments, the Panorama Merge Preview dialog will appear (seen above) and show you a preview of how your stitched image will look once it’s fully rendered. At the top right, if you turn on the Auto Select Projection checkbox, it chooses the style of panorama stitching that best fits the image, and it usually works pretty ..read more

This is one of those features in Lightroom that once you try it, you fall in love with it, because it gives you the opportunity to make sure an image you’re shooting for a specific project (like a magazine cover, brochure cover, inside layout, wedding book, etc.) looks and fits the way you want it to, because you get to see the artwork as an overlay in front of your image as you’re shooting tethered. This is a big time and frustration saver, and it’s simple to use (you just need a little tweaking in Photoshop to set up your artwork).   Step One: You’ll need to start in Photoshop by openin ..read more

Scott Kelby has a new Lightroom book! The video below explains what How Do I Do That in Lightroom? is all about. We hope you’ll be as excited about it as we are!     We’ve made the entire book available online (all 250+ pages) right now for FREE, with each page on its own page (just like the book), for a limited time. You can read it here now: http://lightroomkillertips.com/how-do-i/. Why are we doing this? Because we’re hoping you’ll find it so useful that you’ll buy either the print book or the eBook. This is either going to work brilliantly, or it’s going to b ..read more

Excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers Let’s say you added a vignette to a bridal shot. Well, what if you wanted to see a version in black and white, and a version with a color tint, and then a real contrasty version, and then maybe a version that was cropped differently? Well, what might keep you from doing that is having to duplicate a high-resolution file each time you wanted to try a different look, because it would eat up hard drive space and RAM like nobody’s business. But luckily, you can create virtual copies, which don’t take up space and all ..read more