by Matt | Apr 14, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
Hi all. It’s been a while since Topaz’s “all in one” Image Quality app came out. Since I primarily use Topaz for noise reduction, I thought I’d do a comparison to see if Topaz’s older app for noise reduction holds up to the newer...
by Matt | Apr 6, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
On the surface, the Select Subject and Select Background tools seem to do the same thing (just in reverse of each other) in Lightroom and Photoshop. But after digging around a little, they sometimes work a little different when used together. We’ll take a deeper...
by Matt | Mar 17, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
Having control over individual colors is something a lot of people don’t associate with Lightroom. However, with some creative use of Color Range Masking, we can not only create selections of colors but do just about anything we’d like with them. Find out...
by Matt | Mar 3, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
It’s easy for us to get caught up thinking the masking tools in Lightroom and Photoshop are very technical. And in some cases they are. But when you can look at their uses more creativity and really learn what makes them tick, you can improve how they work for...
by Matt | Feb 17, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
Both Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw have some really powerful masking tools to help make selections for us automatically. One of those tools is fairly new and doesn’t get talked about nearly enough, but it’s actually a tool I use more often than most....
by Matt | Feb 10, 2023 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Tutorials
(Leave a comment below letting us know what your favorite sky adjustment is…) You’ve probably noticed that there are always multiple ways to do the same thing in Lightroom and Photoshop. Sometimes, they all produce the same results. But other times, you...
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.