Colin Smith (PhotoshopCafe) details “How to use Landscape masks in Photoshop ACR and Lightroom. Make awesome edits on landscape photos easily and quickly to make them pop in Lightroom and ACR.”
Learn what Project Indigo is and how it works, discover all the features, and see real examples of photos compared with the iPhone camera app. Create the most realistic-looking photos from a free smartphone app.
How to use Project Indigo
Adobe’s new iPhone camera app. Colin Smith created a no-nonsense user guide. Learn how to take photos with the new Adobe phone app.
“The June 2025 update of Lightroom, brings mostly features we have seen before in ACR and beta releases, but brings them to Lightroom and implements them nicely into a finished release. There are a couple of things that we haven’t seen.”
Auto Remove People, Reflection Removal, AI Denoise, and Super Resolution are the big hits.
“4 levels of Background Blur in Photoshop, from beginner to expert. Colin Smith shows 4 ways to blur the background of a photo in Photoshop in this Photoshop tutorial, from beginner to advanced. Do you think levels 2 and 3 should be switched? Written steps and the photo I used here.“
Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to use Lightroom Classic’s new Select Landscape masking tools to automatically select different regions in photographs, including sky, mountains, water, architecture, vegetation, natural ground, and artificial ground.
Photoshop’s go-to color adjustment tool Hue/Saturation has been updated!
“Learn everything you need to know about the new Hue/Saturation Layer in the latest Photoshop Beta.”
00:00 – Introduction to the new Hue Saturation Adjustment
02:43 – Example 01 – Change the Color of a Shirt
07:03 – Example 02 – Colorize Feature
09:10 – Example 03 – Hue/Saturation Flip Trick
11:34 – Image Menu Hue Saturation Adjustment
“Colin Smith explains this new tool and shows the best way to change colors in Photoshop that works on all images.”
00:00 Intro, how to get access
00:39 Big Picture overview of Adjust Color and Hue Saturation
02:48 How to Enable “normal” mode
03:18 6 primary colors
04:28 What is HSL Hue, Saturation, Lightness (luminance), and why does it matter?
05:22 Colorize option and role of Lightness
07:06 Adjusting the Color Range, fine-tune.
How to make all the tool in ACR Adobe Camera RAW available. Where is the missing crop tool? Colin Smith shows launching ACR from Photoshop with full feature set.