Julieanne Kost's Blog

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Basics course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and on Lynda.com.  Whether you’re an experienced creative pro or just starting on your creative journey, learning how to use Photoshop is the best investment you can make in your work! In this course, you’ll quickly learn how to open and navigate documents, customize the Photoshop interface, and start editing your photos. 

I’m excited to announce Lightroom (v3.0) with Fill Edges for Panorama Merge, in-app learning and inspirational content, Connectors, Search Suggestions, enhancements to Custom Sort Order, advanced Export and more powerful GPU processing.

Connectors are a first step towards sharing your Lightroom photos with print professionals including Blurb (to create  and publish books) and White House Custom Color  (for professional printing). Once you “connect” their service, you will be able to access your photos within their software and take advantage of the services that they provide.

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

One of my favorite tools in Lightroom Classic is the Painter tool. For those of you not familiar with it, the Painter tool allows you to pick an attribute (including keyword, label, flag, ratings, metadata templates, settings (presets+), rotation and target collection) and apply to images by clicking on the image thumbnail in the Grid view.

While I recently posted the video below on Curves for my 3, 2, 1, Photoshop series, I wasn’t able to fit all of the shortcuts within the 2:20 second time limit so I thought I would include them (below the video), in this post (plus, I know that some of you prefer to simply read the shortcuts rather than watch a video).

Discover how easy it is to create flames in Photoshop!  

It’s so easy to fill our time with work and other responsibilities, but I still try to work personal photo projects into my life as a way to stay creative, explore new technologies, and expand my vision. So, when I recently had the opportunity to make a quick drive from Virgina to California, I wanted to be sure to make good use of the time. Although we didn’t have time to make a lot of stops, I figured that I could at least take a few photographs along the way. Here are a few of my favorite images taken during the week. 

I’m excited to announce the new features and latest updates in Lightroom Classic 8.4 including GPU accelerated image editing, improved performance in the Folder Panel,  Color Labels for Collections, Export to PNG, Batch Photo Merge for stacked images and more!

I’m excited to announce the following new features and updates to Adobe Camera Raw including GPU Accelerated Image Editing, Save as PNG, smarter Profile and Preset handling, and enhancements to 360 Aware Image editing.

Learn how to create beautiful composites using these three layer masking techniques in Photoshop.

I recently had the opportunity to spend a few moments speaking with Christian Fletcher and Carwin about photography, inspiration, and how a framework can help move a project forward. You can listen to the podcast here…

In this episode of 3, 2, 1, Photoshop!, you’ll discover three different ways to change the colors in your photographs!

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.