The Photography Frame of Mind Podcast (Episode 2)
Hi all. Last week I wrote about how I started a podcast, so if you missed it you can click here to find out more. Episode 2 Topic - Deleting Photos is Good for the Soul! In this second episode I've asked my good friend Brian Matiash to join me. Many of you know Brian...
New Photoshop and Adobe Pricing Announcement
Adobe made some pretty big announcements this week and I wanted to write some quick thoughts about questions I've been getting. Q. What Did Adobe Announce?A. They announced some pricing increases as well as releasing a new version of Photoshop (not a Beta) that has AI...
The Photography Frame of Mind Podcast (Episode 1)
Hi all. For a while now I've been tossing around the idea of a podcast. The ideas mostly come from conversations I have with friends in the industry and every once in a while we think "We should record this because it's something that could really help people". So I...
Select Subject Smackdown Between Lightroom and Photoshop
I know it's confusing when you see multiple features that seem to do the same thing. For example, we have the "Select Subject" feature in Lightroom/ACR when editing the raw photos. But we also have a "Select Subject" feature in Photoshop. Are they the same? Different?...
Do You Really Need to Save Large Edited Files?
I got a question the other day about upsizing a photo. They asked if I liked Super Resolution or Image Size in Photoshop better. I answered that I prefer the Image > Image Size option in Photoshop but that it's easy enough to try both and see what you would prefer....
What is a Lightroom Target Collection?
There are so many features in Lightroom and Photoshop that it's hard to uncover and/or remember them all. Recently, some one asked me what a Target Collection was and I realized it's a tiny feature that I use a lot, but don't really talk about. Enjoy!...
3 Tips for Refining the Auto Select Subject Tool
Select Subject is nothing short of fantastic. It's saved so much time. This week, I redid a tutorial I did years ago that took me 18 minutes. In the new version, between Select Subject and the new Remove Tool I was able to do that tutorial in under 9 minutes. Crazy...
Why I Don’t Care if I Lost All of My Raw Photos
I realize I started this with a very click-baity headline, but let me explain. I recently wrote about my hard drive configuration and it got a lot of comments. I could have written about the most amazing composition tip in the world and it would have only received...
My Hard Drive Configuration
I get a lot of questions on my hard drives. I guess because people can see them in the background of my videos and I think it looks MUCH MUCH more fancier than it really is. So I thought I'd do a quick write up on what I use and why. Disclaimer Don't expect too much...
Batch Process Lightroom Noise Reduction
If you're editing a lot of photos at once, and you use Lightroom's DeNoise AI feature, you may want to speed the process up by batch processing the noise reduction. In this video we'll look at the workflow for running noise reduction on a bunch of photos at once, as...
Alaska Bear Photography Trip Recap
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to go on a bear photography trip to Alaska. I had never photographed (or seen really) a bear in the wild. So that was exciting. Plus, I don't get to go on many photo trips where I'm just there to shoot so that made it even better....
Combining Lightroom with Bridge
Recently I did a video on Adobe Bridge and some features it has that Lightroom doesn't. I got a lot of feedback on it and realized that there are a lot of Bridge and Lightroom users out there so I thought I'd follow it up with a video on some ways that Bridge and LR...