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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…

Adaptive Presets in Lightroom Classic: Part 2

Picking up from last week, and hopefully the creative wheels in your mind are turning now as you think about all the possibilities for customizing these to your own personal workflow and taste. Let’s keep…

“Seven Clicks To Done” (Lightroom Before and After Step-by-Step)

This is just a quickie, but it shows how a little AI goes a long way. Above: Here’s the raw image out of the camera. Here’s a link to download the Raw image if you…

7 Really Useful Lightroom Masking Tips

It’s Friday – perfect day for some handy masking tips. Let’s go! If you’ve created a mask, let’s say it’s a Linear Gradient mask, and you want to create another Linear Gradient mask, just press…

A Simple Lightroom Masking Technique I’m Using A Lot These Days

It’s a really simple, handy technique when you’ve got an image like the one you see below where the light isn’t balanced – you’ve got areas that dark up top, bottom, and in the corners, and…

A Cool Skin Softening Tip (and a Killer Deal)

Before we get to our tip, today we kick off our Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal on a KelbyOne Pro Membership, and it’s our best deal of the year. More people join KelbyOne this week (and next…