Julieanne Kost's Blog

In this episode of 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! you’ll discover how to simulate a long exposure using the Path Blur filter in Blur Gallery.

Here are 30 of my favorite ways to streamline  Photoshop’s interface including customizing tools, panels, menus, workspaces, view options, screen modes, font size, and more!

I recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with International Award Winning landscape photographer Christian Fletcher and Carwyn about personal projects, photography, an my most recent project: SpringBoard. You can listen to the podcast here, be sure to check out Christian’s photography here,  and follow their adventures on Instagram @christianfletcher_gallery and @CarwynPhoto. Enjoy!

In this video (Adding Lightroom Mobile to your Lightroom Classic Workflow), you’ll discover how to create, edit, and share photographs from anywhere, and at any time, using Lightroom Classic and Lightroom on mobile.

In this episode of #LrInsiderTips (Organizing Albums in Lightroom), I’ll show you how to use albums to organize your images in Lightroom. 

Here are 15 of my favorite shortcuts that make working with Paths and the Pen Tool easier in Photoshop.

In this episode of #LrInsiderTips (Hand Coloring), you’ll learn how to easily create a hand coloring effect to your photos using Lightroom Mobile. We’ll add in color using the adjustment brush, use the icons on the left to increase or decrease the size of the brush, and start painting away to transform our images.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to spend ten days “getting lost” in Iceland. While I’ve long since posted the images to my instagram account (@jkost) and have used them to demonstrate various post processing techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop, I completely forgot that I had also wanted to share my travels as a Spark Page. So, if you’re in need of a quick “virtual trip” to Iceland to see some of the most beautiful waterfalls and landscapes in the world, take a moment and tap/click Read More on the image below

In this episode of 3, 2, 1, Photoshop, you’ll learn how to save commonly used values for your tools as presets in Photoshop. 

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at the Art of Photography Conference Saturday, April 17th! II hope you’ll join me for an illuminating and refreshing conversation about how I create personal projects and self-assignments in order to cultivate essential creative habits, explore new concepts and techniques, and organize and structure projects for success. 

I’m happy to announce that today Adobe shipped the first version of Photoshop to run natively on Apple computers powered with the M1 chip, a new Super Resolution feature in Camera Raw which uses an advanced machine learning model to intelligently boost the resolution of an image while maintaining clean edges and preserving important details, and improvements to Versions and access to files while offline for Photoshop on the iPad.

In this episode of #LrInsiderTips, you’ll learn how to easily add watermarks to your photos using Lightroom Mobile.

Here are three handy techniques for working with layer masks in Photoshop including using the nondestructive feather slider, density slider, and stroke layer effect.

If you’ve ever wanted to sync presets across multiple installs of Photoshop on the desktop, then this update is for you! Photoshop 2021 (v22.2), introduces preset sync for brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, styles, and shapes including preset grouping and preset order