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How to “Clone” Inside of Lightroom (and the Photoshop World Conference is Almost Here)

This is a quick, easy trick to do something you probably didn’t think Lightroom could do. Check it out below: Pretty cool little trick, eh? Tons of Lightroom Classes Coming UP At the Photoshop World…

How Would This Photo Look in Black & White?

If you’ve ever wondered that about one of your images, here’s a super quick way in Lightroom Classic to see a preview of it in black and white, and then we’ll look at what to…

Masking Hack: Part 2

Last month I shared a way to trick the Select Sky function to select the reflection in water using either Camera Raw (ACR) or via sync to the desktop version of Lightroom (Lr) when starting…

Lightroom Classic Masking Hack for Selecting Reflected Skies

Ok, I’ll admit right away that this is not pretty, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. Perhaps someone will figure out a more elegant solution (like Adobe), and I’d love to hear…

How to Apply An ‘Auto Correction’ Automatically On Import

ABOVE: The only edit to the Raw photo seen here was to click the “Auto” button. This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below). It brought…

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 Fix Perspective Issues Using Lightroom’s “Guided Upright” Feature

This one’s by request: a while back I created an online course called “A Photographer’s Guide to Chicago” and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down…

Editing in Lightroom Classic vs. Lightroom: Part 2

Last week we started looking at what is the same, so now let’s look at what’s different. What’s Different? The most obvious, and initially potentially disorienting, difference is the interface. LrC’s interface has largely remained…