Category: Quick Tips, Hacks & Shortcuts

Lightroom Linear Graduating Tool

The first step taken when editing a photo in Lightroom is often making global adjustments. These are edits you make that affect the whole of

Live View: Its Benefits and Shortcomings

Though the current generation of vloggers, bloggers, influencers, and enthusiast photographers probably couldn’t imagine a life without Live View, it wasn’t long ago when it

Dodging and Burning: Simple Tools, Powerful Results

Dodging and burning are fundamental and robust post-processing techniques. But they are often overlooked by digital photographers. In this article, I’ll introduce you to the

Avoid These Lightroom Mistakes

My entire photography career has been built on an impressive foundation of mistakes. I started in the mid-1960s with a succession of wrong cameras (well,

Digital Zoom vs. Optical Zoom

I was fortunate to have been around at the birth of the digital camera. I’m referring to point-and-shoots or bridge cameras, as it’s known in

How to Use Content-Aware Fill Tools in Lightroom and Photoshop

Lightroom and Photoshop include many tools designed to move, remove, or change elements of your photographs. In this article, I’ll show you how to use

Photographing the Exciting Carnival of Venice

Carnival is an annual pre-Easter celebration. The most famous are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Louisiana; and Venice, Italy. In each

Graduated Filters - The Landscape Photographer's Amazing Tool

Have you ever looked at professional landscape photographs and scratched your head as to how they were shot? Chances are that the photographer used a

Lightroom: Using the Detail Tab (Featuring Editorial Photography)

Lightroom is a powerful and versatile program that gives you the ability to control how your photos look. This control can happen on both macro

Isolating the Subject for a Spectacular Composition

Isolating your subject in photography is a key compositional tool. It simplifies and increases the impact of your image. It also clearly communicates to your

Lightroom: Using the Cropping Tool (With an Emphasis on Improving Composition)

Using the cropping tool well in Lightroom can help you gain a deeper understanding of composition in photography. A strong composition is one of the

Lightroom: Setting Tone (Featuring People Photography)

The setting tone in Lightroom can be done in many different ways using various panels and sliders. You can manipulate the tone in your photographs

Category: Quick Tips, Hacks & Shortcuts

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