Julieanne Kost's Blog

If you’ve ever wanted to have Photoshop open a document, convert the Background to a Layer, and rename the layer the same as the file name, then this script is for you!

I’m honored to be presenting a webinar on “Creating Personal Projects” this Saturday, January 8th for the Royal Photographic Society in the UK! This online event will take place at 16.00 hours (GMT) Saturday, January 8th, 2022 and last for approximately one hour followed by a live Q&A.

Here are ten of my favorite shortcuts for the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools in Photoshop.

If you weren’t able to watch Adobe MAX in real time, you can still view many of the sessions and labs on-demand. Below are the links to the two presentations that I made, but be sure to check out all of the other free training and inspirational content on the site! 

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2022 Essential Training course is now available on LinkedIn Learning! With 100+ videos in the course, you’ll find exactly the information that you need to master all of Photoshop’s essential tools.

I’m excited to announce several new features and enhancements to Camera Raw v14 including: reimagined local adjustment tools, the new Masking panel, Premium Presets, and a preset Amount slider.

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!

The biggest event in creativity is almost here! Adobe MAX is streaming 29 hours of non-stop inspiration with 400+ sessions. Join us for this free and virtual event on October 26-28 to unlock new ideas and grow your skillset alongside a community of like-minded creatives. I hope you’ll join me for my sessions on editing in Lightroom Classic and compositing in Photoshop.

Here are my favorite tips to quickly align and distribute layers in Photoshop using Smart Guides, the Move tool, and the Direct and Path Selection tools in Photoshop.

One of the most powerful ways to add selective blurring to an image is using the Lens Blur filter in Photoshop. This video demonstrates how to create alpha channels to simulate an “in camera” lens blur after the fact in Photoshop.

If you’ve ever opened a raw file from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop as a Smart Object and then made changes to the Smart Object and wished that you could easily save those changes back into the original file in Lightroom Classic, then keep on reading because it’s actually a very easy thing to do — once you know how to do it.

Discover how to use Layer Comps to create, manage, and toggle between multiple versions of a layout – within in a single Photoshop document by “capturing” or “recording” the Layers panel in a specific state.

Here are several tips to use when creating high dynamic range (HDR) images, Panoramas, and HDR Panoramas using  Lightroom Classic’s Photo Merge commands.

In In this episode of 3, 2, 1, Photoshop! I share 10 of my favorite tips for working with shapes in Photoshop.