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Tips for Importing Photos into Lightroom Classic

Everything that you need to know (videos, quick tips, and shortcuts) to quickly get you up to speed when importing files into Lightroom Classic!

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Over 225 Shortcuts, Tips, and Tricks for Adobe Camera Raw!

Below are over 225  shortcuts, tips, and tricks for using Adobe Camera Raw! Or, you can use this link to download the 14 page PDF!

Everything You Need to Know About Masking in Adobe Camera Raw

Discover how to take your photographs to the next level by enhancing selective areas of a photograph. In this video, Julieanne Kost shares tips, tricks, and techniques for making the most out of Adobe Camera Raw’s new masking tools including automated selections based on Adobe Sensei (Select Subject, Object, Sky, People, and Background), manual painting tools (brush, eraser, linear and radial gradients), and Range Masking (color, luminance, and depth). She also walks through Syncing, Copy/Paste, and using Adaptive Presets – all guaranteed to make your workflow more efficient.

Everything You Need to Know About Masking in Lightroom Classic

Discover how to take your images to the next level using masking to enhance and adjust selective areas of a photograph.  In this video, Julieanne Kost share tips, tricks and techniques for making the most out of Lightroom Classic’s masking tools including new automated selections based on AI/ML (Select Subject, Object, Sky, People, and Background), manual painting tools (brush, eraser, linear and radial gradients), and Range Masking (color, luminance, and depth). She also walks through Auto Sync, Copy/Paste, and using Adaptive Presets – all guaranteed to make your workflow more efficient.

Lightroom Classic v11 — Local Adjustment Tools, Masking, Premium Presets, Metadata Updates and More!

I’m excited to announce several new features and enhancements to Lightroom Classic v11 including:  re-envisioned local adjustment tools, the new Masking panel, Premium Presets, updates to the Metadata panel and more!

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Working with The Shape Tools in Photoshop

Discover my favorite tips for working with the Shape Tools in Photoshop including how to draw, align, combine, edit, transform, and arrange shapes quickly and efficiently.

Adobe Photoshop

Using Actions to Increase Your Productivity in Photoshop

Actions were designed to remove the need to manually apply the same sequence of commands over and over again. They can help increase our productivity and help eliminate repetitive tasks. The following videos and tips will get you up to speed quickly!

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Announces Updates to Lightroom v4 and Lightroom Mobile

Today Adobe announced new features and updates to Lightroom (v4) and Lightroom mobile including Color Grading, Auto Versions, Learn and Discovery, Zoom, Graphical Watermarks and Watermark Syncing, Export with Previous and more!

Adobe Lightroom

Working with Layer Effects and Layer Styles in Photoshop

Here are my favorite tips, tricks, and techniques for working with Layer Effects and Layer Styles in Photoshop. 

Adobe Photoshop

Lightroom v3.3 – Raw Defaults, Versions, Local Hue Editing, Inspirational Edits, and More!

 I’m pleased to announce new features and updates including Custom Raw Defaults, Versions, Local Hue Editing, Watermarks,  Shared Album Notifications, and new ways to connect, learn, and be inspired using  Discovery Posts, in Lightroom v3.3.

Adobe Lightroom

Updates, New Features, and Hidden Gems in Photoshop 2020 (v21)

I’m excited to share my top ten favorite updates, new features, and hidden gems in Photoshop 2020 (v21).

Adobe Photoshop

Ten Quick Tips from my Recent Trip to Death Valley

I recently had the opportunity to spend a few days in Death Valley and thought that I would share 10 quick tips that I was reminded of while I was making photographs.

Photography

Working with Blend Modes in Photoshop

A blend mode allows you to control how the pixels on one layer work with or affect (or blend with) other pixels in Photoshop. They can be found throughout the program in such areas as the Layers panel, Layer Styles, Painting tools, Smart Filters, the Fill, Stroke, and Fade commands, and the Apply Image and Calculations commands.

Adobe Photoshop

20+ Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts for Working with Adobe Bridge

Here are my favorite tips, tricks and shortcuts for working with Adobe Bridge!

Adobe Bridge