Adobe Lightroom Classic

Here are my favorite tips and shortcuts for working with presets in Lightroom Classic’s Develop module.

To prevent the Masks panel from automatically hiding on mouse-down, use the More icon on the Masks panel to disable the “Auto Hide Masking Panel” option.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mason Marsh and Jeff Carlson about Lightroom Classic Tips on their Photocombobulate podcast. The episode is live and can be viewed at his link: Episode 27: Lightroom Tips with Julieanne Kost.

The difference between the Saturation and Vibrance sliders in Lightroom Classic is that the Saturation slider makes absolute adjustments that affects all colors equally while the Vibrance slider is relative.

Watch this video (or view the tips and shortcuts below) to discover how to use the Clone, Heal, and Content-Aware Remove healing modes in Lightroom Classic to quickly remove dust spots, imperfections and distracting elements in a photograph.

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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.

Following are several tips, tricks and shortcuts  for working in the Slideshow module in Lightroom Classic.

When editing multiple images in Lightroom Classic, there are several ways to apply those same settings (or a subset of settings) to additional photographs. In this post, I’ll cover the most common methods for batch processing and include shortcuts to help streamline the workflows. 

Here are three techniques to add vignettes to your photographs in Lightroom Classic. 

Use the HSL/Color panel in Lightroom Classic to make adjustments to the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance values of specific color ranges in an image.

compare and apply preferred edits and adjustments that have been made to an image. Below are several tips to help get the most out of these two features. 

Reference View provides a dedicated 2-up view in Lightroom Classic’s Develop module in order to view and compare a Reference photo (static) while making edits to an Active (editable) photo. This view is incredibly useful when you’re trying to “match” the look and feel of one image to another and essential when preparing multiple images to use together in a layout or presentation. 

Here are my favorite tips and shortcuts for using Lightroom Classic’s Transform panel to correct distortions in images by transforming perspective (converging vertical and horizontal lines), rotation, aspect, scale, and position (X & Y Offset Values).