Use Lightroom Like a Darkroom

How to work like an old-school master printer when you’re processing images in the computer

Text And Photography By Rob Sheppard

Updated June 20, 2016

To do this in Photoshop, you need to use things like selections, feathering, layers, adjustment layers and layer masks.

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Originally Published February 12, 2013

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