Julieanne Kost's Blog

The new Point Color feature in Lightroom Classic enables more powerful and precision color editing than even before. In the video below you’ll learn how to use Point Color to make adjustments both globally as well as when masking based an all three dimensions (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity). While Point Color is designed to be easy to use (you can simply sample a color and start making adjustments!), this video also covers the difference between Point Color and Color Mixer as well as how to adjust the Range sliders to achieve the exact color adjustments that you’re after.

The new Point Color feature in Adobe Camera Raw enables more powerful and precision color editing than even before. In this video you’ll learn how to use Point Color to make adjustments based an all three dimensions (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity). While Point Color is designed to be easy to use (you can simply sample a color and start making adjustments), this in-depth video also points out key differences between Point Color and Color Mixer and demonstrates how to use the range sliders to achieve the exact color adjustments that you’re after. Point Color is available both when making edits to the entire image and when adjusting only a portion of an image using masking In Adobe Camera Raw.

Adobe MAX 2023 — The Creativity Conference is almost here and I hope you are as excited as I am! With hundred of speakers and sessions covering topics including Photography Design, Video, Social Media and more, the days will be filled with opportunities to enhance your skills, supercharge your creativity, and be inspired.

I’m excited to present “What’s New in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop” in the Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions online webinar Sunday November 5, 2023.

In this video, Julieanne will walk you through three ways to quickly find, filter, and isolate layers using the Layers panel in Photoshop.

I’m thrilled to announce the addition of Generative Expand (via the Crop tool) and Generative Fill in Photoshop as well as updates to Adobe Firefly and more. Be sure to check out this blog post “All new, AI-powered Creative Cloud release and pricing update” for additional information.

I have to admit, this past week hasn’t gone to plan, with a trip to emergency over the weekend after taking a stumble-tumble-fumble and breaking my right arm and wrist (yep, I’m right handed – doh).

I promise I’ll be back creating educational content as soon as I can use my hand again!

In this video Julieanne will walk through six benefits of working with Smart Objects in Photoshop including; transforming and distorting Smart Objects, editing and replacing the contents of Smart Objects, creating duplicated instances, and more!

In this video, Julieanne demonstrates five reasons to use Smart Filters in Photoshop including how to edit, mask, stack, move, duplicate, and change blend mode and opacity of Smart Filters in Photoshop.

In this video Julieanne demonstrates four ways to select layers using the Layers panel, the Move tool’s Auto Select layers feature, the context sensitive menus, and keyboard shortcuts.

In this video, you’ll discover ten essential shortcuts for working with Layer Masks including how to add, delete, invert, move, reposition, copy, target, disable, change the density and add a non-destructive feather to soften the edges of a mask.

In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten essential shortcuts to quickly change Photoshop’s brush size and opacity, select colors, reset brush options, paint straight lines, use precise cursors, toggle between painting and erasing while maintaining the same brush settings, increase the smoothness of a brush stroke, use Pulled String mode, and stroke a path to simulate pressure sensitivity.

In this video, you’ll discover six little known techniques for zooming images in Photoshop including Animated and Scrubby zoom, Birds-Eye View, zooming multiple windows, and zooming to the contents of a layer. 

Lightroom Mobile’s new Create Edit Replay feature makes it easier than ever to export a before and after video showing the edits you’ve made to a photo that you can then share on social networks. Simply make the edits, then tap the share icon and choose Create Edit Replay to have Lightroom create a video with a high level overview of what you did. The video below shows you how. 

Lightroom Classic (v12.4) includes several updates and enhancements to masking and editing including adding selective grain, refining saturation when using the Tone Curve, Process Version updates, and HSL and Color Panel visualization options.