Julieanne Kost's Blog

Whether you’re an experienced creative professional or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your images. In this course, Julieanne filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. You’ll get up to speed Photoshop’s core features and concepts that you can immediately put to use regardless of whether you’re a photographer, designer, or both!

Don’t miss this fast-paced, information-packed session in which Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, will showcase her favorite Photoshop tips, tricks, and techniques. She’ll uncover hidden gems for graphic design workflows, including working with layers and masking, compositing and retouching, type, vectors, and more, to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision faster than ever before. 

Join Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, to learn how to expedite your creative process using new and established features in Photoshop. Discover how Julieanne seamlessly merges disparate visual elements to create a single, surreal, composited scene. She’ll demonstrate key techniques to incorporate into your workflow that will enhance efficiency from initial concept to final scene.

In this Lightroom video that I recorded for Adobe MAX, I share some of my favorite quick and easy techniques that will dramatically improve your photographs. (While the session was presented in Lightroom, the same techniques can be applied in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw.)

In this video, you’ll learn how to create dynamic slideshows using the Slideshow Module in Lightroom Classic.

In the video below, you’ll learn how to quickly print multiple images to a single JPEG file to post to social media or share with others.

In this video you’ll learn how to use the Map module in Lightroom Classic to view the location of a photograph as well as quickly find and add GPS and Location information  (including Sublocation, City, State, Country/Region, and ISO Country Code) to images that don’t have embedded GPS data.

In this video, you’ll discover how easy it is to use Photo Merge in Lightroom Classic to stitch together a high dynamic range (HDR) panorama in Lightroom Classic where each of the individual panels in the panorama are made up of HDR images and the stitched panorama contains all of the quality and  flexibility of a raw (DNG) file.

In this video, you’ll discover how easy it is to use Photo Merge in Lightroom Classic to combine bracketed exposures into a High Dynamic Range, DNG file that contains all of the quality and flexibility of a raw file.

In the video below, you’ll discover how easy it is to use Photo Merge in Lightroom Classic to stitch together multiple photos to create a panorama in the DNG format that contains the quality and flexibility of a raw file.

In the video below, Julieanne explores several different ways to selectively change the colors in a photograph using the masking tools in Lightroom Classic.

In this video I’ve tried to cover everything about the Masking tools including the Brush, Linear and Radial Gradients tools, AI Subject, Sky, Background, Object, and People masking, and Color, Luminance, and Depth Range masking. It’s an update of a previous video that I created with all of the new features and tips included! It’s a bit longer than usual, so grab a snack, sit back, and enjoy mastering masking in Lightroom Classic!

In this video, you’ll discover how to create a custom identity plate not only to display in Lightroom Classic, but also when outputting and sharing your photos.

In this video, you’ll learn how to create custom text and graphic watermarks to apply to images on export as well as in the Print, Slideshow, and Web modules.