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Zoom Options in Lightroom Classic

There comes a time in every workflow for pixel peeping, and Lightroom Classic (LrC) has a number of ways for us to zoom up close and personal with the pixels in our photos. Some are…

Quick Portrait Lighting Fix

Here’s a really simple, yet really effective trick I use to make sure in a portrait my subject’s face is the brightest thing in the image. Here’s how to do it (it’s just two steps…

Quick Lightroom Portrait Retouching Trick

In this case, our subject has a trademark mole just to the right of her chin. Should you remove it, or… This is a tricky retouching question I get asked a lot (the question is…

Cool Tip From Gilmar On How She Uses Lightroom Gradients In Her Portrait Work

Here’s a quick 1-minute video from photographer, Photoshop wizard, and KelbyOne Instructor Gilmar Smith on how she uses Lightroom gradients in her portrait work. I like how she adds little things like negative Clarity to…

How To Remove Lens Vignetting (darkening in the corners) in Lightroom

Hi, gang, and happy Friday. I know we talk a lot here about adding subtle edge darkening to some of our images, but in this case, we’re not talking about darkening the edges evenly all…

The Advantage of Using Virtual Copies in Lightroom

Although we’ve talked about Virtual Copies here on the blog from time to time, I realized that I haven’t done anything on it for people who are new to Lightroom Classic, so today that’s what…

Syncing Automated Settings

There are a few different ways that Lightroom Classic can analyze a photo and apply an auto setting based on that analysis. Quite often we may have multiple photos that we want to batch apply…

Seeing a Before/After of Just The Panel You’re Working In

You probably already know that pressing the backslash key on your keyboard gives you a before/after of all the changes you’ve made to the image since you imported it. but what if you want to…