Photo Editing Tips & Techniques

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Organizing Your Photos, Part 4: Smart Collections

March 5, 2020 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

February 13, 2020 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

January 10, 2020 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

To keyword or not to keyword, that is the question

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Organizing Your Photos, Part 1: A Place For Everything

December 11, 2019 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

April 12, 2019 | Text & Photography By Wes Pitts

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

Converting To Black & White In Lightroom Classic

February 20, 2019 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

Processing fall color photos like this fall scene .

Processing Fall Color Photos In Lightroom Classic CC

October 22, 2018 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

July 12, 2018 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

June 27, 2018 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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

May 25, 2018 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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 starts with understanding the hazards

Keeping Your Photos Safe, Part 1: Don’t Touch Anything!

April 12, 2018 | Text & Photography By Jason Bradley

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