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One of The Most Underrated Tools in All of Lightroom (Spoiler Alert: it’s a masking tool)

Check out this quick video on what is one of the most powerful yet totally underrated (and under-utilized tools) in all of Lightroom. Seriously, that tool kicks absolutely butt, but for some reason, it just…

Quick Easy Background Change By Pulling a Color From the Image Itself

Here’s a quick easy technique using Lightroom’s masking feature where you’re assured the color you choose will work with what your subject is wearing, because you’re pulling a color from the image itself (it’s better…

Way Underrated Lightroom Masking Feature

We do a Lightroom and Photoshop tip each week on my photography Podcast “The Grid” (aired live Wednesdays at 1:00 PM ET), and this week I did a tip on a way under-rated, under-used masking…

Lightroom’s Auto Mask Feature: 90% of the time, it’s awesome!

Lightroom’s masking Brush tool is incredibly useful, and its Auto Mask feature, which helps to keep you “painting inside the lines” (so to speak), makes it even more helpful as it tries to “sense” the edges of…

Selection and Masking Tips & Tricks

Terry is back, and this is such a good one – packed with tips and techniques for both Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Cloud, and Photoshop. You will learn a ton! (check it out below). Thanks, Terry! You…

Portrait Retouching in Lightroom, Part 5 (Remove “Hot Spots”)

It’s installment #5 in my Lightroom retouching column, and while last time we looked at retouching wrinkles, this time around, we’re looking at a related technique, which is reducing hot spots (those shiny areas on…

Portrait Retouching in Lightroom, Part 4 (Realistically Retouch Wrinkles)

It’s the fourth installment of our retouching column: last time, we looked at retouching teeth, and also wound up brightening the whites of the eyes. This time around, we’re going to look at a very…

Retouching Portraits in Lightroom, Part Two

Welcome to the second installment of my “Retouching Portraits in Lightroom” column. Last time, I talked about how to remove blemishes, which is a perfect lead-up to what we’re going to do this time because…