I Need Your Help – Adobe Mobile Workflow
Hi all. I'm putting the finishing touches on a new Adobe Mobile Workflow course. The course is based on a mobile workflow while traveling (using LR and PS on the tablet), and how to bring all of those photos and edits and organizational stuff back home to your main...
Take Control Over Color Saturation
When masking specific areas in Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw, we often want to target and enhance colors. But since we have several ways of doing that, it can be confusing. So this week we're going to look at increasing the Saturation of a color in two ways and...
Blending Landscape Photos with Photoshop Masks
This week's tutorial comes from a question by one of my readers where he asked if there was a way to get the best of both worlds. In one photo, he had it sharp all the way through, but the water wasn't quite the look he was going for. In the other photo, the water...
Why I Don’t Convert To DNG
I often get a lot of questions about DNG files and whether or not I convert and use them. So I wanted to write something I could point people to. Here goes: (Note: This post was updated on August 1, 2024 and is an updated post from years ago. So you'll see some older...
What’s New in Photoshop (July 2024 Update)
Adobe updated Photoshop this week (the real version, not the beta) with some new features. So I thought I'd take a few minutes to go over what's new. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/bQhVZHSrHaY
My Masking Suffered Until I Learned This
When making certain adjustments with the masking tools, I often get questions about some of the halos and fringes that can appear along edges in the photo. https://youtu.be/8CgBBWG2yzw
5 Lightroom Features You Should Know
For those of you that are using Lightroom (or considering it), I put together a video with 5 features that you may not have known were there. Even if you're a hardcore LRC user, I think at least one of these features is something that just about everyone can use....
Putting All of Your Photo Eggs in One Basket
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about Adobe owning our photos, and being locked in to their software for our editing needs. Or maybe you think one day you won't need the software, for whatever reason, and you're worried your photos will be locked in to a...
Q&A on Adobe’s New Terms of Service
Hi all. If you've heard of Adobe's Terms of Service updates and had any questions, I did a few things this week to hopefully help out. To be honest, while I hate drama and conspiracy theorists, I'm almost glad this happened because it forced me to become a bit more...
Adding Depth and Light to Landscape Photos with Lightroom and Photoshop
I've got another start to finish tutorial for you this week. This photo was submitted by Catherine Spangler (thanks Catherine!). I though the composition was really nice and she did everything right in the camera. I just think we can bring out a little more in the...
Am I Still Using Lightroom (and which version?)
Every time I release a tutorial, and it shows Lightroom Classic, I get asked the same question a bunch of times: Matt... Are you still using Lightroom (Cc, Cloud, or whatever you want to call it - though it is just called Lightroom), or are you back to using Lightroom...
What’s New in Lightroom (May 2024)
Adobe released a new update to Lightroom this week that contains an AI feature for removing distractions. You can find out more in this video. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/373gZSwkAiw