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In this era of digital media, seeing your work in print is getting harder and harder.  Magazines are getting scarce, and online media sources are very popular for displaying your work.  We love being able to show images on our iPhone at dinner or on Instagram.  But what about printing your image?  Unless you live Read More

The new version for Lightroom (mobile version) has really added some great new features, but hands down the best one is the ability to browse and edit files on a local hard drive without having to import the files into Lightroom.  There are two buttons in the upper left corner of Lightroom, one says ‘Cloud’ Read More

I have been getting questions lately about my workflow, and has it changed with the new Lightroom (not Lightroom Classic/desktop)? The short answer is my workflow has changed some, mainly due to the ability of Lightroom to now edit images without having to import them into the program.  Later this week I’ll post another blog Read More

There have been monumental changes to Photoshop and Lightroom this year.  I was just looking back at online classes we did four years ago on selections, and now with the new masking features in Photoshop those classes are obsolete!  Masking has been a hit, and changed the way we make selections and edits on specific Read More

As I mentioned in my last post, I shot my entire trip to France in BW.  I set my Picture Mode to monochrome so all my camera previews were BW in the field, but when I opened the same RAW files in Photoshop they were in color.  When shooting in RAW with monochrome selected you Read More

Adobe continues to update and improve their products, including using AI powered technology for better performance.  With their latest update they added the Remove Tool.  Sounds pretty bland, right? Wait until you try it….be sitting down…because it will change how your work in Photoshop forever! I have loved using content aware fill for years.  When Read More

If you have been on a workshop with Cree and I over the last few years, you know how much we rave about Topaz Denoise.  One click of a button, and your noise is virtually eliminated and sharpening is applied.  Sharpening is the big one….any noise reduction also reduces sharpness, so you have to tweak Read More

We just finished teaching an online masking class, and participants had a lot of good questions.  But by far the biggest confusion came from what does ‘intersect with subject” or any other mask really do?  And is it really necessary? The new masking features in LR and PS have changed workflow for about every photographer Read More

Masking has taken on a whole new meaning with the recent masking features in PS and LR.  It’s crazy isn’t it?  Before masks we were using the ‘old’ tools to make selections, refine edges, and hope that things came out okay.  But then the new masking features were introduced, and now I seem to use Read More

I have gotten a lot of questions about high key editing so I thought I would go through my workflow here.  I’ll be heading to Africa later this month, and high key editing can help wildlife images in poor or high contrast light.  There are a lot of ways to do a high key edit, Read More