How To Make Masking Easier With Photoshop

Almost anything will become easier to select if you adjust it first. Photoshop uses color contrast to make many selections. So, if you increase the contrast in an image you make it easier for Photoshop to make those selections. Using Photoshop’s adjustment layers you can...

Select And Mask Hue With Photoshop’s Color Range

When you want to make a selection based on hue, start with Photoshop’s Color Range. (It’s located in the Select menu.) It’s an invaluable selection tool that’s easy to master. The heart of this tool is the default setting for the Select drop-down menu –...

Selecting The Unselectable With Photoshop’s Saturation Masking

Original Increased saturation in high ranges of saturation only Red and blue added to high ranges of saturation only Wouldn’t it be great if you could selectively adjust colors based on how saturated they are in Photoshop? You can! How? With a free plug-in, Adobe...

How To Make New Color Profiles for Lightroom & ACR – Colin Smith

Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe demonstrates how to make new color profiles for Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. Learn more about new Color Profiles here. Check out Matt Koslowski’s Q&A on Color Profiles. Learn more in my digital photography and printing workshops.

The Power Of Profiles – New LR & ACR Profiles – Kost / Koslowski

Julianne Kost shows the new Profile feature in Lightroom and Camera Raw. Find more from Julianne Kost here. Matt Koslowski tells you why he thinks Profile is one of the biggest things in years. Find more from Matt Koslowski here. Learn more in my digital photography...

What Are The Differences Between Lightroom and Photoshop’s Curves, Clarity, Dehaze, High Pass, Texture, and Sharpening ?

Lightroom and Photoshop offer an impressive array of tools for adjusting an image’s contrast. At some point luminosity contrast adjustment tips over to affecting image detail (contour and texture) more than overall lightness. Deciding exactly how you want to affect lightness, contour, and texture is...

A Quick Cure For Dehaze Color Shifts With Photoshop

Without Dehaze Dehaze may create color artifacts Color artifacts removed Color without Dehaze blended with luminosity with Dehaze The top layer is set to a blend mode of Color When you’re using Lightroom or Camera Raw, you’ll quickly find the Dehaze slider can produce marvelous contrast...

My Free February Desktop Calendar Features Antarctica

View more images from Antarctica here. My free December Desktop Calendar features an image from Antarctica’s Pleneau Bay. Download your free Calendar here. View the video Antarctica here. Get the free eBook Antarctica / Two Visions here.

Enjoy My New Video – Antarctica

My new video shares inspiring photographs and fascinating facts about the mysterious continent Antarctica. Enjoy! Download my free ebook Antarctica / Two Visions here. Find out about my Antarctica photography workshops here.

Use Multiple Exposures To Reduce Image Noise

Single Exposure / Multiple Exposures Need to make an exposure at a setting that’s sure to produce noise? Make a bunch of them. Then watch the noise disappear. You can reduce noise in an image by combining multiple exposures of the same composition in Photoshop....