Happy 10th Birthday To Lightroom!
Yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of Lightroom - version 1. Yep, it was February 19th, 2007 when Adobe first released Lightroom. It's hard to believe it was 10 years ago, but it's even weirder (more weird... weirdlyer?) to think of a time where I edited photos...
Announcing My First Costa Rica Photography Workshop
*Update this workshop has sold out!!! You might remember that back in November I did a quick blog post on my trip to Costa Rica and mentioned that I was down there to see if it was good place to do a workshop. Well, I was blown away by the natural beauty there. There...
Photo Makeover – Lightroom and Photoshop (Episode 2)
Here's the 2nd episode of Photo Makeovers. The series isn't about editing my photos - it's about editing yours. I've realized that if I just edit my photos it eventually becomes kind of boring since my photos may be totally different from yours. But this series let's...
An Awesome Lightroom Sky Tip for Landscape Photographers
Here's a quick tip that shows you how to amp up a boring sky using Lightroom. https://youtu.be/LnvjPlx-UeE
I’m Guest Coaching at ON1 Plus This Month
Hey everyone, I'm guest coaching at ON1 Plus for the month of February. I started ON1 Plus as a educational membership area of ON1 when I used to work there. As you probably know, I don't work there anymore, but we're all still great friends and talk all the time -...
Photo Makeover – Lightroom and Photoshop (Episode 1)
This is the first video in a brand new free video series called Photo Makeovers. The series isn't about editing my photos - it's about editing your photos using Lightroom and Photoshop (and any other plug-ins, actions, textures, or whatever I would normally use to...
The State of Post-Processing and Photo Editing
The post processing world has been undergoing some pretty big changes lately. There are so many apps out there that do so many different things, yet so many things that are similar. It gets really confusing. I hear it and read it from people every day. And if there’s...
60 Second Photoshop Tips: Visually Changing Your Selection
Not many people know that you can use Free Transform tool in Photoshop on Selections too. But the problem is that it doesn't really give you much feedback as you adjust your selection. But with this tip, you can actually see exactly what's happening to the selection...
An Update to My 60 Second Photoshop Tips (and Lightroom + more)
Last year I started a series called 60 Second Photoshop Tips. It's based on a series I used to do years ago where I did quick one-ish minute tips. I also added some 60 Second Lightroom Tips to it too (Just click the Photoshop link in the menu at the top and you can...
Blog Recap of 2016
Thanks so much for following my recaps this week. Today, we're going to take a look at the top blog posts of 2016, as well as some other stuff. But, first let's talk a little about a change in the blog over the last year. I consider my blog my workbench. I test out...
What I Learned In Our First Year of Business
A while back I wrote about how my wife and I both left our jobs and struck out on our own business adventure. It wasn't the best time for it, as we have two kids getting ready for college. But it was definitely the right time for it, so we pulled the trigger last...
The One Lightroom Setting You Need to Change for 2017
Breaking in today, between the 2016 Annual Report week stuff, for a quick tip on the one Lightroom setting that you need to change for 2017. And the best part is, it doesn't matter what version of Lightroom that you have. It's not a glamorous feature, it's not a fancy...