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...
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...
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...
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...
5 Features Adobe Bridge Has That Lightroom Doesn’t
Please let me know in the comments... do you use Adobe Bridge? I'll admit it... years ago I used to make fun of Adobe Bridge. It was all in good fun, and I actually believe your final photo doesn't care about your workflow so forget what everyone says. Make a great...
Curves Update – New Refine Saturation Adjustment in Lightroom and Photoshop
Adobe released a pretty small update this past week, but it includes a big adjustment for those of you that like to use Curves in Lightroom or Camera Raw. One of the common problems we have with curves is that it can over saturate the photo. But with this new...
Test Your Skills with My Photoshop Quiz
Hi all. Who doesn't love a quiz right? Just for fun I thought I'd make a little Photoshop Quiz to test some of your skills. This one is 15 questions. Personally, I think it's pretty hard so it'll be interesting to see how everyone does (Update after 30 minutes: Okay,...
Are Your Questions Hurting Your Progress?
I'd love to see a lively discussion on this one so please leave a comment below. This has been a topic I've been wanting to write about for a while because I see it all the time. Rather than write a long post though, I thought I could talk about it better. So please...