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This Months Highlights:
- REMAINDER OF SPS SEASON CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
- FOCUS ON DOW SMITH
- 14 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY DURING THE PANDEMIC
- WHAT ONE PHOTOGRAPHER DOES DURING THE PANDEMIC...
- LIVE AND LEARN
- TRAVELLING EXHIBIT UPDATES
- MARCH 2020 PRINT AND PROJECT IMAGE WINNERS
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Scott’s Lightroom Q&A
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Tonight at 8:00 PM ET I’m doing another of my now legendary live “Book Chats” and everybody’s invited. Tonight’s featured book is “The Flash Book” and I’ll be sharing tips from the book,…
Issue 61 of Lightroom Magazine Is Now Available!
Issue 61 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, explore a set of three new plug-ins that help get your work…
Keeping Your Presets in Sync
I love the Lightroom Classic with Lightroom Cloud workflow, and a key component of this workflow is having the same Develop presets available across all Lightroom applications. While Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw share…
Get Up To Speed Fast On All The Stuff Adobe Added to Lightroom In The Past 18 Months
It’s a lot more than you’d think (even I was surprised, and there were even a features that snuck by me, which of course I included in the class). Anyway, there’s so much they added,…
Backing Up Your Photos: How To Make a Backup Of Your Backup
This is another one I get asked a lot (and it came up numerous times at the Lightroom Conference), and if you caught my session (or if you’ve watch3ed my SLIM [Simplified Lightroom Image Management}…
The May 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The May 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to turn your travel architectural photographs into fine art, create colorful double exposure effects, quickly…
Exploring the World with the Map Module
I don’t utilize the Map module with all of my photography, but I’m grateful it is there when I have a project that is a good fit. There’s a sweet little river that passes near…
Lightroom in 60-Seconds Videos: It’s Double-Déjà vu Tuesday
So….when I was recording my latest round of Lightroom in 60-Seconds I somehow wound up recording two tips that I already did last year, but I thought maybe you might have missed them (wishful thinking?),…
How to Apply An Auto Correction Automatically On Import (and why you might want to in the first place)
This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below), and it brought up another question: If you were to create a preset that applied an Auto Adjustment,…
The “Gotcha” of Applying Multiple Presets in Lightroom
First, I want to thank everybody who attended our first ever, two-day online Lightroom Conference. It was just incredible, without over 1,000 photographers attending and the end-of-conference survey results are just over-the-moon with how much…
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How to make a sunset or sunrise in Photoshop with lighting effects
You can apply this technique to any photo. You can use an overcast day, to add a sunrise or sunset, or you can use a photos where the sunrise didn’t quite hit and really make…
The May 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The May 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, learn how to turn your travel architectural photographs into fine art, create colorful double exposure effects, quickly…
How to Create a realistic beam of sunlight in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a beam of sunlight falling into a forest. We will even add some pollen to make it look a little more magical. The original is an…
How to Emboss a logo or icon in Photoshop
When I first discovered this technique over 20 years ago, I decided to see how far I could push it. That experimentation led to me creating a series of Photorealistic illustrations entirely made in Photoshop…
How to Light a Portrait Photo in Photoshop
This will work on any version of Photoshop, although Lighting effects looks a little different before CS6, it still works the same. Note: When I add keyboard shortcuts for both Mac and Windows I…
Leverage Lightroom Classic Snapshots in Photoshop
Even if you use Lightroom Classic for the majority of your editing needs there are still times when you just need to do something in Photoshop. This can be intimidating for some people who are…
WFH -Work From Home Tips and tools!
Now that the world is in lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home has taken on a new meaning. While there are many social changes and a lot of sad and crazy…
How to Light a Photo in Photoshop with Lighting Effects
In this Photoshop Tutorial we are going to use the Lighting effects filter to simulate real lighting. This filter has a lot of powerful features. I’ll show you how to use them in this tutorial.…
How to Match colors between photos in Photoshop
Hey CAFE Crew, You know what can be difficult? When you combine photos in Photoshop, (also known as photo compositing) the different photos often don’t match. The colors and tones are different and it makes…
The April 2020 Issue of Photoshop User Magazine Is Now Available!
The April 2020 issue of Photoshop User is now live on the KelbyOne site and KelbyOne Mags for iOS and Android. In this issue, we take a closer look at some very useful Photoshop features that you may have never tried…