Photo Editing Tips & Techniques

Advancements in artificial intelligence and computational photography have made Lightroom’s masking tools incredibly powerful—and easier to use, too

Curating your images to select candidates for printing is a challenge. Here’s what I’ve learned over the years.

Creating monochrome photographs from color files is fast and easy with this simple process

Here’s how to make perfect exposures and develop them in Lightroom

Lightroom’s Smart Collections are a powerful tool to gather images based on their stage of development, file type, custom keywords 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

To keyword or not to keyword, that is the question

The first in a four-part series to help you master metadata and organizational techniques for your image catalog

When developing your digital photos, don’t feel constrained to a global white balance setting

Explore the Profile Browser in Lightroom Classic CC and take a playful approach to black-and-white workflow

Understanding the difference between Lightroom’s Vibrance and Saturation sliders can dramatically improve your results when processing fall color photos

Essential steps to take for a cohesive backup strategy that ensures the longevity of your photo library

Protecting your photo library involves more than just file redundancy—it starts at import and continues throughout the organization and processing

In part two of this four-part series, we take an overview of the hardware options for creating redundant backups

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

How to process night photography to meet our color expectations while preserving the natural hues of the stars and Milky Way

Use this curves tool software technique as a starting point to achieve balanced color

Use this advanced perspective correction filter in Photoshop for superior results when fixing wide-angle lens distortion

Creating finely tuned details

Developing your creative workflow