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An Incredible Learning Opportunity for Just Three More People (and a handy masking tip)

This is one of the most amazing, inspirational, challenging, and just downright amazing things you’ll see all day – it’s Joe McNally inviting you to spend 6-days with him doing something here’s never done before,…

How to Easily Create Lighting “Fall Off” in Lightroom Using The New Masking Tools

This is something I wind up showing a lot of “The Grid” when we do blind critiques. “Fall off” is a lighting term, and it’s used a couple of different ways, but in this case,…

Select Your Foreground In 3-Click Using This Masking Technique

This is a quick and easy way to use Lightroom’s masking tools to select your foreground in just three clicks. Check it out: STEP ONE: Start by clicking the Masking button, then click “Sky” (as…

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…