How To Rapidly Reorder Photographs in Lightroom Classic Collections

  . In this Quick Tip, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to quickly reorder photos by selecting multiple images rather than the time-consuming technique of dragging (and dragging and dragging!) and dropping photos into position. . Learn more on Julianne Kost’s blog. Learn more in my...

How To Use Association To Go Deeper With Your Photographs

My early curiosity about clouds displaying invisible forces at work, lead to associations of nephomancy (divination by clouds) and later clouds as divine messengers. The working title for this series, Glory (later changed to Illumination) was drawn from religious iconography in western art history. The...

13 Tips To Help You Master Curves In Photoshop

. In this short video tutorial, you’ll learn essential tips for working with the Curves panel in Photoshop, including how to customize the Auto options, add and delete points, use the Targeted Adjustment tool, and adjust color and tone. . Learn more on Julianne Kost’s...

How To Use Metaphor To Make Stronger Photographs

Zoomorphism animates and connects these images.   Photographs can often be well-crafted transcriptions of their subjects and nothing more. It’s usually that elusive ‘something more’ that makes great photographs, elevating them beyond craft to art. How can you bring more to your images? One way...

Cool Multi-Color Effect Using RGB Channels In Photoshop

. Learn a bunch of creative effects you can apply using three simple checkboxes. My favorite use is to light an object from three different angles and then combine the three images into a colorful result. Check out more of Ben Wilmore’s Digital Mastery here....

Use A Little Gestalt Psychology To Make Your Compositions Stronger

Motion attracts attention. Danger attracts more attention. Including a person in an image does more than show scale; the person becomes the main actor in the scene. Typically, man-made objects are almost as interesting as the people who make them, sometimes more. Animals are almost...

How To Fix Red Faces In Your Photographs Using Photoshop

Learn how the pros remove red from faces. We’ll go beyond the standard technique of Hue/Saturation and will also take a look at why a lot of images from the internet always have red faces. In the process, you’ll learn how to isolate colors using...

3 Great Books On Composition

Michael Freeman’s The Photographer’s Eye demonstrates how the elements of composition are applied in photographs, which are often so laden with detail that it’s more challenging to see the fundamentals. Christian Leborg’s Visual Grammar is a quick read that you can look at for a...

Quickly And Easily Change White To Any Color With Photoshop

. Learn three methods for adding color to white objects. The first two are the most common approaches, which to my eye do not look professional, so I’ll show you how to improve their results. The third approach is the highest quality and least common...

4 Reasons To Use Abstraction In Photography Plus 20 Experiments To Try

1 Structure Clarified 2 Process Detailed  3 Concept Visualized 4 Pattern Created 5 Extreme Simplification   Abstraction To one degree or another, every photograph is abstract. At a minimum, photographs are flat rather than three-dimensional. Some photographs are more graphic than others. And the origins...