The Digital Photography School has posted a very cool little tutorial explaining how to use textures to quickly and easily enhance your photographs. While it may seem a little biased to say so (hint: I’m the author) it’s a good read. You can check it ..read more

I just got back from a real nice vacation and in looking at, and learning from my own photographic successes and failures, it’s pretty clear that a good number of potential great photos are handicapped by a bit of  “photographer laziness”. What I mean by ..read more

Scott Kelby passes along a tip that I had accidentally discovered myself not too long ago over at the Photoshop Insider. The problem is sluggish JPEG exports from Lightroom, especially when exporting one large batch. The solution, as it turns out, and as Kelby ..read more

Photographer and Lightroom teacher, Martin Evening, has posted a video focusing on the vibrance and saturation sliders in Adobe Lightroom:

In this movie I wanted to show a comparison between the Saturation and Vibrance sliders and in particular the damaging effect a Saturation boost have on ..read more

This lesson continues what we started last week in our tutorial for correcting white balance in Adobe Lightroom. It’s not necessary to read it for this lesson, but the techniques are similar given Lightroom and Camera Raw share the ..read more

Since the last poll requested more tutorials, I thought a great place to start would be at, well, the beginning. And the place where all image correction typically begins, whether working in Lightroom, Camera Raw, or Photoshop, etc, is white balance. Modern cameras ..read more

For those who can’t afford Kelby Training (some great classes there, by the way.), here’s some free help with retouching.

photo credit: EJP Photo

It can be handled in any number of ways, but the lonely tree motif makes for an eye pleasing composition…doubly ..read more