The High-Contrast Portrait Looks
Lightroom's Clarity slider increases midtone contrast, and does a pretty nice job of enhancing texture and giving your subjects a gritty look, but if you ...
When Your Subject Is in the Shadows
We all wind up shooting subjects that are backlit (where the light is behind your subject). That's because our eyes automatically adjust to the situation ...
Balancing Skin Tones with Photoshop
You're definitely going to run into situations where your subject has a patch of skin, maybe on their arm, or back, or leg, that is ...
Stitching Panoramas Right in Lightroom CC
We can now create panoramic images (stitching multiple frames into one very wide, or very tall shot) right in Lightroom—no more trips over to Photoshop ...
Fixing Group Shots the Easy Way in Photoshop
Group shots are always a challenge because, without a doubt, somebody in the group will be totally hammered (at least, that's been the experience with ...
Setting Your White Point and Black Point
CREDIT: SCOTT KELBY One way to get the most out of your image editing is to expand the tonal range of your photo by setting ...
There’s a Picture in There Somewhere
BEHIND THE SCENES: This was taken inside Jackalope, one of the awesome gift shops in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I took my students there a ...
Getting Great Duotones (and Split Tones) in Lightroom
Okay, I need to clarify here a bit: This trick is for getting great duotones, but I also cover how to do a split-tone effect, ...