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Kick Butt Little Lightroom Tip For Brightening Skin

Happy Friday, everybody. Here’s a quick little tip that is really helpful if you want to brighten your subject’s skin — not just their face — all their skin, and without having to paint or…

Tips For Managing Profiles

Awhile back, Adobe revamped the entire functionality behind applying camera profiles to our photos in Lightroom Classic, Camera Raw, and the cloud-based Lightroom. They really took it up a few notches by giving us the…

How to Remove the Background of a photo in Photoshop

We will start with this photo I found on Adobe Stock. Step 1. Choose the Quick select tool. Step 2. With a reasonably large brush, make a rough selection around the subject Step…

Happy Labor Day, Lightroom Lovers!

Comrades, today is Labor Day in the United States, and our offices are closed, so we’re taking today off here at the blog as well so we may partake in the American rituals of this important national…

Smallest Stabilized Camera in the world. Insta360 Go review

Insta360 Go world’s smallest stabilized camera. Check out my in-depth review on the new Insta360 Go. This reviewtorial (review, tutorial style. Kind of how I do all my reviews) shows you the setup and operation…

Create an artistic paint lettering in Photoshop

In this Photohshop tutorial you are going to learn how to create an acrylic paint effect on a lettering within Adobe Photoshop! This is by no means the ONLY way to do this, I can…

Five More Useful Things in the Cloud-based Lightroom Mobile App

My post from last week generated a few questions, so I thought I’d follow up with some answers and some more tips. Exposure Lock When faced with a tricky exposure situation and you want to…

How to Remove Shadows from a Photoshop in Photoshop

Sometimes you get the perfect photo, but there are unwanted shadows on it. This picture was sent to me by one of our members: Richard Pilcher. He asked… “I have a NEF file of elephants drinking…