Editing Hack: How to Extend a Background in Photoshop
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Editing Hack: How to Extend a Background in Photoshop

Anyone who’s ever taken a photo knows that learning how to extend background in photoshop and get it exactly as you want can be challenging. Sometimes when editing in Photoshop, you wish that you had framed the image differently. Other times, you realize there was too much going on in the background, or you find…

How to Seamlessly Match Skin Tones in Photoshop
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How to Seamlessly Match Skin Tones in Photoshop

  Regarding photography, human skin presents the most complex and varied range of colors of any subject. While it’s possible to easily match skin tones by eye, our eyes are imperfect and often play tricks on us. When it comes to how to match skin tones in photoshop, a more technical approach is necessary. Today,…

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How to Seamlessly Stitch Photos Together in Lightroom
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How to Seamlessly Stitch Photos Together in Lightroom

Stitching photos together is the process of taking multiple images and placing them side by side to form a panoramic photo. Adobe Lightroom offers an easy-to-use photo merge Panorama so you can build beautiful panoramic images. In this article, we’ll show you how to stitch photos together in Lightroom so you can rebuild the look…

How to Easily Delete a Lightroom Catalog
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How to Easily Delete a Lightroom Catalog

Before we learn how to delete a Lightroom catalog, let’s address one crucial question. What is a catalog in Lightroom? A Lightroom catalog is the location responsible for housing your Lightroom photos. It also stores image previews and other essential information. Your Lightroom catalog is usually on your hard drive. But you can choose to…

How to Unlock Layers in Photoshop
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How to Unlock Layers in Photoshop

Have you ever tried following a Photoshop tutorial to edit your photo, only to be stymied by something basic in the program?  While you struggle to figure out something like how to unlock layers in Photoshop, the video instructor continues and is soon ten steps ahead of you. So frustrating! I can’t teach you all…

How to Use Curves in Photoshop
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How to Use Curves in Photoshop

Even with the best camera and skillful exposure adjustments, your photograph can still turn out looking flat or dull. Sometimes the light isn’t quite right for that vibrant image you were imagining (like the one above).  However, there is a perfect tool to enhance your image during post-processing: curves.  How to Use Curves in Photoshop…

How to Edit Amazing Videos in Lightroom
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How to Edit Amazing Videos in Lightroom

When it comes to editing, Lightroom is a popular creative platform from Adobe. We know it’s possible to tweak and touch up photos, but can we edit video in Lightroom? Not only is it possible, but we can also walk you through how to edit video in Lightroom! Importing Video to Lightroom Start by importing…

How to Create Actions in Photoshop to Make Your Edits Pop
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How to Create Actions in Photoshop to Make Your Edits Pop

Photoshop Actions are a convenient feature. An “action” is a series of tasks you can save and apply to any file you want to edit. You can use this feature to automate some repetitive workflows and get more consistent results when editing images in batches. Photoshop comes with some predefined actions, but you can create…

How to See Before and After in Lightroom
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How to See Before and After in Lightroom

Lightroom is an excellent application for editing your photos. But like many editing apps, there’s a bit of a learning curve. We’ve come across in the community how to see before and after in Lightroom shortcuts. There are multiple ways you can view the before and after of your photos, which is extremely helpful during…

How to Easily Copy Settings in Lightroom

How to Easily Copy Settings in Lightroom

Copying the settings you want is a convenient way to apply the same edits to a series of photos. This technique works best if you’re working with images from the same photoshoot that share similar lighting or that you captured with the same lens. Learning to copy settings will help you get more consistent results…

How To Edit Using the Tone Curve Tool in Lightroom
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How To Edit Using the Tone Curve Tool in Lightroom

If you’re not already familiar with using Tone Curve in Lightroom, you probably feel pretty comfortable using the sliders for highlights, shadows, blacks, and whites in the Basics panel. While it’s easy to assume these two tools do the same thing to your images, the tone curve tool can take your photo editing to the…

Find Your Focus Podcast: Episode 24
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Find Your Focus Podcast: Episode 24

Getting Your Life Back – Simple Systems to Save You Time in Your Business with Dahlia Orth, System Strategy Academy. Episode 24: Show Notes. Stress is one of those things that can take the joy out of your photography career, but implementing good systems can help reduce it. Nobody understands systems as well as Dahlia…

What Software Should You Edit With? RawTherapee vs Lightroom
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What Software Should You Edit With? RawTherapee vs Lightroom

If you process photos, you will need to know the differences between the two popular processing software apps. RawTherapee and Adobe Lightroom have useful features for photo processors, but they have subtle differences worth comparing. After you see RawTherapee vs Lightroom, you will be able to decide which is the best choice for your photo…

A Photography Style Guide for Exploring Your Creativity

A Photography Style Guide for Exploring Your Creativity

People can recognize the best photography. The most legendary photographers have a certain panache to their work that composes their identity; they have a brand. Stylistic photography elevates work from photos to art. As beginners, many of us snap photos of whatever has an exciting look, unconcerned with continuity between our shoots. However, once you…