Get the Most From Adobe #6: Online Photo Stories with Adobe Spark
Continuing on with the How to get the most from Adobe series, we're moving on to a very little known online application called Adobe Spark. Spark is an online creator for images, graphics, social media graphics and even making an online blog page to share your photos...
Get the Most from Adobe #5: Transfer Lightroom Desktop Photos to Your Phone
In a previous video I showed how to get your (favorite) Lightroom Classic photos to online galleries and portfolios. But what if you wanted to have them on your phone too. As they say... there's an app for that! Adobe has an app for the phone that will automatically...
Get the Most From Adobe #4: Photoshop Libraries (not as boring as it sounds)
I promise you this feature isn't as boring as it sounds. Photoshop Libraries (and the corresponding Libraries Panel) can be a big help when it comes to organizing some of your commonly used images, graphics, textures, photos, etc... What's really nice is that they...
How to Get the Most From Adobe #3: Awesome Online Portfolios
In episode 3 of "How to get the most from Adobe" we'll look at how you can create a professional looking online Portfolio using Adobe Portfolio which is included as part of your Adobe Subscription (rather than pay another company $50 to $100 each year for the service....
How to Get the Most From Adobe #2: Free Custom Brushes
In episode 2 of "How to get the most from Adobe" we're going to take a look at a very creative feature - brushes. You'll see how Adobe gives you access to full sets of high quality creative brushes for textures, watercolor, lettering, and just about anything else you...
How to Get the Most From Adobe: #1- Online Gallery Sharing
We're going to do something a little different things month. I listen to a radio show in the morning that does a "What's Good Wednesday" where they just talk about good stories. Let's face it... controversy sells. Bad news and scary headlines get clicks. And if you...
My First Time Using Photoshop
Back in the 90's, when I first opened Photoshop, I had no idea that it would be the core of my career almost 30 years later. I didn't have any kids yet. Heck I hadn't even met my wife at that time. Yet somehow today - married for over 20 years and my oldest son in...
What’s New in Photoshop 2020 (February Update)
To celebrate Photoshop's 30th birthday, Adobe released a couple of new enhancements to Photoshop. The main one, and the reason I devoted a whole video to this is the Content Aware Fill feature that's just been added. Now, if you've got several things you want to...
What’s New in Lightroom 9.2? (February 2020)
If you follow the Adobe world you'll know that Adobe releases what they call a "dot" update to Lightroom every 2-3 months or so. These updates are usually meant to take care of new camera and lens profile updates that come in to the market between those months, but...
Do You Really Need To Use Photoshop?
I received this comment on one of my videos the other day and I thought it was pretty timely considering I just finished a big update to my Photoshop System Course. It was a video where I had edited a bunch of photos all at once and did the edits rather quickly: This...
Start to Finish Edit of My 2019 Favorite Photos
Earlier this week I shared two different posts. The first was my top favorite landscape/travel photos of 2019. And the second was my top favorite wildlife photos I took in 2019. I do this every year but I figured I'd change it up a bit and also share the editing and...
My Favorite Wildlife Photos of 2019
Yesterday I posted my favorite landscape/travel photos of 2019 (click here to see them). Today I'm posting my wildlife shots, since I felt the page would have gotten too long if I included both. My Outlook This Past Year I changed up my shooting philosophy this year a...