Julieanne Kost's Blog

In this video, you’ll learn how to quickly access, customize, and work with  tools in Photoshop! 

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and  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!

I’ve always wanted to explore the surreal landscapes of Western Australia so when Darran Leal of Photo World Adventures asked me to join their photographic tour to the Kimberly region May 15-26, 2021, I jumped at the opportunity!

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Photography course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and  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!

If you weren’t able to attend Adobe MAX in person, you can still view my Photoshop session “Increase your Photoshop productivity with Tips and Tricks from A-Z” on YouTube .In this fast-paced, information-packed session I uncover hidden gems throughout Photoshop to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision faster than ever before.  

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!