Julieanne Kost's Blog

Adobe Camera Raw (v15.3) introduces Denoise and several Masking updates including new People Masking Categories and Adaptive Presets.

Lightroom Classic (v12.3) introduces Denoise, Masking updates, new Edit-In Photoshop options and more! 

In the video below you’ll discover the advantages of using Adobe Express to to tell your story using photographs, text, and video. Julieanne demonstrates how easy it is to create a web page using photo grids, split layouts, glideshows, links, buttons, and more; all with the help of beautifully designed templates which can be easily published to online.

In the video below, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create a beautiful book using Lightroom Classic’s Book Module. 
In addition, below are some of my favorite tips, tricks and shortcuts  for quick reference.

In this video, Julieanne walks through her favorite tips and techniques for using the Crop tool in Photoshop. Discover how to crop to specific sizes, aspect ratios, show overlays, fill with content aware technology, add canvas size, as well as learn essential keyboard shortcuts to help boost your productivity.

I’m excited to announce Adobe Firefly — the new family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. With the beta version of the first Firefly model, you can use everyday language to generate extraordinary images and text effects.

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

In this video, Julieanne walks through five tips for working with shapes in Photoshop including quick ways to select multiple shapes on different layers, merging shape layers, using path operations to combine shapes, adjusting the stacking order of shapes, and distribruting multiple shapes on a single layer.

In this video you’ll discover how easy it is to convert a type layer into a shape layer and use the Direct Selection tool to customize the shape in Photoshop.

In this video, you’ll discover eight different ways to select colors in Photoshop including the eyedropper, color picker, Swatches, Color, and Libraries panels and more.

To view the transformation values for the Smart Object (instead of the Smart Object with the Layer mask), target the thumbnail for the Smart Object in the Layers panel, click the link icon (between the Smart Object and the Layer Mask thumbnail), to unlink the Smart Object from the layer Mask. 

This is a bit of a mash-up of ten tool tips and shortcuts, but I find them to be very helpful and wished that I had discovered them when first learning Photoshop!

One of my favorite things to do every December is to set aside time to look through all of the photographs that I’ve made in the previous 12 months. I’m often surprised at the insights that I have while reflecting upon the places that I’ve gone, the experiences that I’ve had, and how I chose to document them.

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.