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Digital Competition Results for April 2022 – General & Monochrome

Congratulations to our winners from this month’s Digital Image Night competition for the General and Monochrome categories. ** Judge: David Fingerhut ** COMPETITION REPLAY

Boris FX Optics: Lens Flares & Film Effects in Lightroom

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…

Add birds to a photo in Photoshop, make background transparent

Add birds to photos in Photoshop, combine pictures and make transparent background. This is a fun tutorial. When you have a great landscape photo, you can really add life to it by adding a flock…

Finding a Photo’s Location on a Drive

It is not uncommon for a Lightroom Classic (LrC) user to become confused about where a given photo is actually stored on a drive. This can be when performing a search using the Library Filter…

When to Use Lightroom’s Awesome “Draft Mode” Printing (and when not to)

If you’re printing a multi-photo layout from Lightroom Classic (there’s one below, for example), I would encourage you to turn on “Draft Mode Printing” (as seen above) to have your print come out of the…

Sharpening For Landscape Photos

If your landscape image has any visible noise in the image, the place it’s most likely to appear is in the sky. If you have a lot of clouds in your sky, those will often…

How To Apply a Preset on Import in Lightroom ‘cloud’ (and the hidden trick to undo it)

For you folks using LR Classic, this is going to sound weird from the start, but the ability to apply a Preset to images on Import in LR ‘cloud’ does exist, but you won’t find…

New Features in Lightroom for Desktop

The version of Lightroom that runs on Mac and Windows (aka “Desktop”) got a small update this week to version 5.3. As usual, these updates include support for new cameras and new lenses as well…