Masking

Whether you’re an experienced creative professional or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your images. In this course, Julieanne filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. You’ll get up to speed Photoshop’s core features and concepts that you can immediately put to use regardless of whether you’re a photographer, designer, or both!

Don’t miss this fast-paced, information-packed session in which Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, will showcase her favorite Photoshop tips, tricks, and techniques. She’ll uncover hidden gems for graphic design workflows, including working with layers and masking, compositing and retouching, type, vectors, and more, to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision faster than ever before. 

Join Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, to learn how to expedite your creative process using new and established features in Photoshop. Discover how Julieanne seamlessly merges disparate visual elements to create a single, surreal, composited scene. She’ll demonstrate key techniques to incorporate into your workflow that will enhance efficiency from initial concept to final scene.

In this Lightroom video that I recorded for Adobe MAX, I share some of my favorite quick and easy techniques that will dramatically improve your photographs. (While the session was presented in Lightroom, the same techniques can be applied in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw.)

In the video below, Julieanne explores several different ways to selectively change the colors in a photograph using the masking tools in Lightroom Classic.

In this video I’ve tried to cover everything about the Masking tools including the Brush, Linear and Radial Gradients tools, AI Subject, Sky, Background, Object, and People masking, and Color, Luminance, and Depth Range masking. It’s an update of a previous video that I created with all of the new features and tips included! It’s a bit longer than usual, so grab a snack, sit back, and enjoy mastering masking in Lightroom Classic!

n this video produced by Tim Robinson and Snap Happy: the Photography Show, I discover some lovely flowers on our trip across the Kimberley. We’ll capture some images and then I’ll share some tips for editing the images in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

In this video, Julieanne Kost walks through several options in Photoshop Beta that can help visualize layer bounds and preview layer edges, quickly select layers within groups, and transform the contents of a layer.

I’ve updated my Lightroom Classic (v13) Tips, Shortcuts, and Quick Reference Guide!
Use this link to download 36 pages of my favorite tips, tricks and keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom Classic. I’ve tried to be as concise as possible in the PDF so if you want/need additional information, be sure to use the search icon on my blog to find related content about a specific topic (a more in-depth explanation, illustrations, or even a video).

’m excited to announce that my Photoshop 2024 Essential Training course is now available on LinkedIn Learning!

Whether you’re pursuing a career in design or photography or simply want to elevate your image-making skills, this course has been hand-crafted to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision in Photoshop faster than ever before.

During my recent trip to Australia, I was asked to create four videos covering the Light Panel, Color Grading, Presets, and Adjustive Editing in Lightroom for Adobe Asia Pacific. If you’re new to Photography and Lightroom or, just want to review the basics, be sure to check out these videos below!

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 Camera Raw (v15.4) includes several updates and enhancements to masking and editing including: adding Grain, Tone Curve, Refine Saturation, Process Version, Color Mixer, Canvas Padding, and Camera Raw as a Filter in Photoshop.

Adobe Camera Raw (v15.3) introduces Denoise and several Masking updates including new People Masking Categories and Adaptive Presets.