Photo Editing Tips & Techniques

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How to Master Lightroom’s Masking Tools
Advancements in artificial intelligence and computational photography have made Lightroom’s masking tools incredibly powerful—and easier to use, too
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Flops Versus Bestsellers
Curating your images to select candidates for printing is a challenge. Here’s what I’ve learned over the years.
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3 Easy Steps To Black & White Photos
Creating monochrome photographs from color files is fast and easy with this simple process
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How To Process Winter Photographs
Here’s how to make perfect exposures and develop them in Lightroom
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Organizing Your Photos, Part 4: Smart Collections
Lightroom’s Smart Collections are a powerful tool to gather images based on their stage of development, file type, custom keywords and more
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Organizing Your Photos, Part 3: Tags, Ratings And More
Beyond keywording and subject categorization, your opinion of each image, as well as its intended end use, can be addressed in your organization workflow
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Organizing Your Photos, Part 2: Using Keywords
To keyword or not to keyword, that is the question
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Organizing Your Photos, Part 1: A Place For Everything
The first in a four-part series to help you master metadata and organizational techniques for your image catalog
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Mixing White Balance
When developing your digital photos, don’t feel constrained to a global white balance setting
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Converting To Black & White In Lightroom Classic
Explore the Profile Browser in Lightroom Classic CC and take a playful approach to black-and-white workflow
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Processing Fall Color Photos In Lightroom Classic CC
Understanding the difference between Lightroom’s Vibrance and Saturation sliders can dramatically improve your results when processing fall color photos
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Keeping Your Photos Safe, Part 4: Backup Workflow
Essential steps to take for a cohesive backup strategy that ensures the longevity of your photo library
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Keeping Your Photos Safe, Part 3: Protecting The Big Little Things
Protecting your photo library involves more than just file redundancy—it starts at import and continues throughout the organization and processing
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Keeping Your Photos Safe, Part 2: Tools Of The Trade
In part two of this four-part series, we take an overview of the hardware options for creating redundant backups
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Keeping Your Photos Safe, Part 1: Don’t Touch Anything!
In this first part of a four-part series, we take an assessment of the basic threats to our photo archives and ways to mitigate those potential problems
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Processing Night Photography
How to process night photography to meet our color expectations while preserving the natural hues of the stars and Milky Way
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Processing For Neutral Fall Color Photos
Use this curves tool software technique as a starting point to achieve balanced color
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Using Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
Use this advanced perspective correction filter in Photoshop for superior results when fixing wide-angle lens distortion
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RAW Photo Workflow In Lightroom, Part Four: Finely-Tuned Details
Creating finely tuned details
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