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5 Reasons Smart Previews Are So Awesome For Lightroom Classic Users

Today’s post (from the vault) is inspired by a question I get asked a lot when I’m out there teaching, and that is “Should I be using Smart Previews?” or “Why should I be using…

Making the Most of Color Labels in Lightroom Classic: Part 2

Following up from my post last week on applying color labels to photos, I wanted to share how you can extend that practice to folders and collections too. Applying Color Labels to Folders and Collections…

I Totally Trashed Yesterday’s Tutorial. Totally!

What made it worse is; I’ve written about it before (including in my books), and yet when I wrote it from scratch yesterday, I totally whiffed. Epic crash and burn. Totally my fault (and thanks…

Quick Way To Find Out Which Photos Look Good in Black & White

This is a quick trick, but it’s really effective for helping you to quickly see which photos from your shoot would look good in Black & White. STEP ONE: Here’s a collection of color images…

The Worldwide Photo Walk is Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, in cities all over the world, my 13th Annual World Wide Photo Walk for the Springs of Hope Orphanage kicks off, and by tomorrow night collectively we will have taken literally millions of photos, and with any…

Making the Most of Color Labels in Lightroom Classic: Part 1

Color labels in Lightroom Classic can serve a variety of purposes. Most importantly, I think of them in terms of what aspects of my photography would be helpful to me to represent visually. Each of…

Learning Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush (Part 2)

In Part 2, we’re continuing with our Adjustment Brush tutorial with learning about the super helpful Auto Mask feature. The Auto Mask Feature: 90% of the time, it’s awesome! The Auto Mask feature helps to…

Lightroom Beginners Week: Learning The Adjustment Brush (Part 1)

Happy Monday, everybody and welcome to “Lightroom Beginner’s Week” where I’m going more in-depth for beginners on some important Lightroom features and techniques, and I’m starting with the Adjustment Brush. I talk with users all…