“Julieanne Kost demonstrates tips and techniques for using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to crop, transform, and expand a photograph using Generative Fill to make a more balanced composition.”
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“In this video we’ll look at a little-known/used tool with the selective adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop Camera Raw. It’s the Color tool and we’ll really dive in to how it’s different than just the normal white balance settings for changing or adding color to your photos.”
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“Discover the brand new “Adjustment Presets” with a new update to create and export your own color grading presets! This is game-changing as it allows you to create presets that are insanely customizable in every aspect since they are just a group of Adjustment Layers. In this tutorial, we will learn what Adjustment Presets are, how to create them from scratch, how to export and import different color grading styles, and finally, understand the limitations of the tool.”
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“Julieanne walks through 10 tips for working in the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic, including shortcuts for sliders and panels, customizing the interface, unique zoom options, and more!”
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Now, you can create shareable custom Adjustment Presets in Photoshop.
Colin Smith, Matt Kloskowski, and Unmesh Dinda show you how.
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“Discover the incredible power of color palettes to always get the perfect skin tones in Photoshop! In this tutorial, learn how to get smooth and rich skin tones using sampling and Curves. We’ll also learn how to even out skin tones and prepare our image for retouching.”
00:00 What We’ll Learn
00:17 Example 1 – The Process
07:05 Example 2 – Easy Images
09:32 Example 3 – When it Doesn’t Work
10:23 Even Out Skin Tones
13:14 Finishing Touches
15:04 Quick Recap
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Rushing towards perfect, you might miss it. Previsualization (seeing with your mind) is a fine start, but I recommend you use Lightroom to go further and visualize (see with your eyes). After exploring your options fully, you can perfect those results.
You can level up and speed up your game by using Lightroom’s Presets.
(Note, Camera Raw offers Presets that are identical to Lightroom.)
Virtual copies are the easiest way to make side-by-side comparisons.
Presets are the easiest way to preview the many possibilities one image contains.
Presets are also a great way to create a consistent look for two or more images. Once applied, you can tweak settings to optimize individual images while still preserving a unified style.
Presets can record any Edit setting(s) (one, many, or all) and apply them to any other image. A single click can produce results as subtle or dramatic as you like.
The many presets Adobe provides are a great starting point. You can make your own presets by customizing the defaults, by applying someone else’s, or by creating your own from scratch.
The Presets panel and the slider settings one preset produces.
How To Use Presets
“Discover the Best Techniques to Change Any Color to Any Color in Photoshop! Whether you want to change blue to red, black to white, or white to anything you can think of, we will cover it all in this tutorial. Using the power and the right amount of Curves, Hue/Saturation, and Masking, learn easy ways to change color in every situation.”
00:00 The Problem with One Technique
00:34 Color to Color
03:41 Similar Color to Color
05:07 Color to Black or White
07:48 Major Announcement
08:23 White to Color
10:41 White to Black
12:35 White to Dark Color
13:01 Black to White
14:08 Black to Color
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“How to use Select and Mask in Photoshop to cut out smooth edges. Colin Smith explains how Photoshop Select and Mask works part 2 of 2.” View part 1 of 2 here.
00:00 Intro
00:12 Making the selection around the car
01:02 Manually fixing details (The tools)
02:10 Additional Tools – Object selection and Lasso
03:02 Global Refinement Tools
03:33 Smooth Tool
03:45 Feather and Contrast. How they work in Photoshop
04:50 Shift Edge
06:17 Making further refinements with Masks
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It’s a game-changer – and it will modify your workflow.
When processing image files, noise reduction used to be one of the last things I did; now, it’s the first thing I do, if I plan to use Adobe’s AI Noise Reduction.
When don’t I use it? When I’m processing files with only a little noise and Adobe’s Manual Noise Reduction has no problem getting the task done.
Whenever I encounter substantial image noise, Adobe’s AI Noise Reduction is the best solution currently available, bar none.
It’s really easy to use; that’s an understatement.
1
Click Denoise and in the new Enhance window set Amount.
Start at 100 and lower the value until edges look crisp and realistic texture is restored.
Applying Denoise will automatically apply Raw Details.
2
If, and only if, you want to upres an image (4X larger) check Super Resolution.
In many cases it’s unnecessary, but when it’s needed it’s exceptional.
3
Click Enhance.
The results will be saved in a new DNG file.
When you continue processing the new DNG file, Manual Noise Reduction sliders will be set to zero, but still available, though no longer needed in the vast majority of cases.
You’d think something this sophisticated would be more complicated. It’s not. Welcome to the new world of AI.
Read Eric Chan’s detailed explanation here.
Read more about noise here.
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