3 Things to Know about Working in Adobe Bridge
Do you open photos direct into Photoshop or do you use Adobe Bridge? If you don’t use Bridge, there are some good reasons for changing your habits. You may not realize it but some of how Camera Raw behaves depends on whether you open an image from Bridge or from Photoshop. Here’s how: Freeze Photoshop [...]
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Photoshop: Working with Locked Pixels
If you’ve ever wondered what the small icons in the Layer palette do, you might be surprised at how useful they can be. Here’s what the Lock Transparent Pixels icon does and how you can use it. There are times when you are working with content on layers in Photoshop that the layers can do [...]
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8 Steps to Crafting Images in Lightroom
Lightroom has more tricks up its sleeve than simple photo fixes such as exposure and contrast. It’s possible to craft images inside Lightroom and, in many ways, the tools in Lightroom make the task easier than it would be in Photoshop or another editing program. In this post I’ll show you a way to turn [...]
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Photoshop CS6 – What’s on your wish list?
When you’ve been using a program like Photoshop for a length of time, you begin to develop a wish list of things you’d like to see in future versions. Sometimes these are addressed by new releases and sometimes they’re not. Now I know Photoshop CS5 has just been released but there are still things on my [...]
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File Archiving Strategy – the Bucket System
A Guest Post by Nick Rains. Using metadata correctly means that images can be fully catalogued and images can be retrieved at any time without necessarily knowing which folder the file is in. King Penguins, Macquarie Island – Canon 5D MkII, 300f2.8L 1/500 second @ f5.6. Filing Where do you actually put your image files? Do you [...]
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How to Prevent & Edit out Reflections on Glasses
Subjects who wear eye glasses can offer a unique difficulty for photographers. First, there’s the dilemma of whether they should wear them or not (will they not feel & look like themselves without them? Are they hiding fabulous eyes behind those glasses?) And then there’s the problem of glare and reflection. An attentive photographer will [...]
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Non Destructive Dodging and Burning
Destructive editing. Do the very words make you shudder? For many, the main rule of editing is to avoid destruction at all costs. So today, we’re going to talk about dodging and burning the non-destructive way. For beginners, dodging and burning are tools in Photoshop and other editing programs which darken (burn) or lighten (dodge) desired [...]
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Lightroom: Embracing Brightness
In an earlier blog post, I discussed a typical Lightroom workflow and I advocated using the Exposure slider to lighten an image. I also said that I preferred to skip using the Lightroom Brightness slider altogether. I’ve recently changed my mind about the Brightness slider and I’d encourage you, if you haven’t already done so, [...]
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The Fast Way to Remove Dark Circles Under Eyes in Photoshop
A Guest post by Phil Steele Almost any portrait subject over the age of 25 can use some under-eye cleanup, but many photographers struggle to make this common retouch look natural. I know I struggled with it, until I found this handy shortcut. Most of us start out using the Clone Stamp tool as our all-purpose retouching [...]
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How to Create A Simple Composite: Photoshop Creative
In this post, I’ll show you how to create a simple composite by placing one image in another. Along the way, I’ll not only bend one image to fit its new position but I’ll also show you a layer style trick that overcomes the problem that you’ll see if you scroll down to step 6 [...]
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Pro Photographer Chase Jarvis Shares His Complete Workflow, Storage and BackUp System
Backing up your photography work and thinking about the workflow to do is it essential whether you’re a hobby photographer with pictures of your kids on your computer or a pro working with client images. Pro photographer Chase Jarvis has created a fantastic video showing how he and his team keep their data safe. It’s [...]
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Pro Photographer Chase Jarvis Shares His Complete Workflow, Storage and BackUp System
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Round Tripping with Lightroom
One of the most confusing things for new Lightroom users is understanding how documents get round tripped from Lightroom to Photoshop and back. Step 1 To start, open Lightroom with the image displayed in the Develop, Library, Slideshow or Web modules. Right click the image and choose Edit In > Adobe Photoshop. If you chose a [...]
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Structuring a Workflow Using Configurator
In a previous post, I explained how to create panels for Photoshop using Configurator. This time I want to show you a way to structure panels as something more than just a place to put the tools you use most often. To follow along, you’ll need to download Adobe Configurator 1.0 if you’re using Photoshop CS4 [...]
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Streamline Your Workflow – Getting the Most out of LR
There are so many ways to use editing programs together. My most common method (which has become a habit) is to do general tweaking on a whole batch of photos in LR before heading over to PS to edit the final cuts one-by-one. What started as a pretty quick procedure turned into a long, drawn [...]
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Using Lightroom Compare View
In an earlier post, I showed you how to use Lightroom’s Survey View to choose one image from a selection of images. In this post I’ll show you how to use another of Lightroom’s specialty views – Compare View which has a similar purpose but which operates very differently. Start in the Library module, select [...]
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