Free Tutorials
Lightroom and Photoshop Brush Tips You Probably Didn’t Know
The brush tool is such an essential part of my raw editing that I wanted to dedicate a video to some key tips and tricks for using it. I originally released this video as just Brush Tips and Tricks. But within the first day of the video being out, I had a ton of...
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Relighting Your Photos in Lightroom, Photoshop and ON1 Photo
The idea behind this technique is that sometimes our scenery doesn't cooperate. Most of us don't have unlimited time and budgets to keep reshooting the same place when the light is perfect. So we get what we get when it comes to light. But who's to say we can't...
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5 Tips to Speed Up Lightroom
Hey everyone! I hope you're having a great week. This time around, I wanted to share a few tips I have for speeding up Lightroom. I hear a lot of questions on the topic, so I figured I'd give you some best practices to help squeeze as much juice out as you can....
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My Top 5 Landscape Filters in ON1 Effects
A while back I did a video on my top 5 filters in ON1 Effects for landscape photos. But I realized that over time my taste and workflow have changed, so I thought it was time to revise. As you can imagine, technology changes and new filters are added. But also,...
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Luminosity Masking in Color with Photoshop
You've probably heard of Luminosity Masks or even Color Masks in Photoshop before. If you haven't, or you're not sure what they are, here's a quick explanation. A luminosity mask is basically a mask (or selection) of the luminance values in a photo (the...
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I Can’t Stand This Lightroom Feature
If you've followed my videos you know I usually try to keep an upbeat tone. And while the title of this post sounds like I'm really mad, you'll see in the video it's more in a joking way. I tell the story in the video but here's a recap. I was teaching some hands...
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Syncing Presets and Profiles with Mobile in Lightroom 7.4
Adobe recently updated the Lightroom family and most of the updates centered around the desktop versions (Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC). But, among those updates was a pretty massive change to Lightroom Mobile (technically also called LR CC, but I still call...
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ON1 Photo 2018.5 New Features
If you're an ON1 user then you'll want to download the latest update to ON1 Photo Raw 2018. In each version, ON1 releases updates throughout the year where they add features. But the "dot 5" releases are usually the largest, and 2018.5 is no exception. Also, if you...
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What’s New in Lightroom 7.4 (June 2018 Update)
Hey there everyone! I'm just getting back from teaching some workshops in Costa Rica, but I wanted to share some of the new features in the latest update to Lightroom (Lightroom 7.4 Released on June 20th, 2018). Of course you have your normal camera and lens...
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How To Make Your Own Lightroom and Photoshop Profiles LUTs
I've been getting a lot of questions on making your own Lightroom / Photoshop profiles. While Adobe does have an SDK for this, it gets pretty techie and detailed. So I thought I'd break it down and give you the basics of what you need to create them. Also, I do...
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