Seven Tips for Making Basic Selections in Photoshop
How To Create And Use Hue Masks In Photoshop
What’s New in Lightroom’s Big June 2022 Update
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How To Make Advanced Masks in Adobe Camera RAW & Lightroom
What’s New in Lightroom Classic 11 For Photographers – Plus More On New Easy Masking Features
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Adobe released the October 2021 Update to Lightroom Classic. This video will walk you through what’s new.
The New Masking Tools In Lightroom & Camera Raw
“Discover how easy it is to make local adjustments to your photographs using Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw’s new Masking panel and tools including: Select Subject, Select Sky, Radial and Linear Gradients, Brush, Color and Luminance Range Masking and more!”
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6 Ways To Get Better Shadow & Highlight Detail In Your Photographs
You want your photographs to glow - right? So what’s better than one kind of glow? How about three?
You can get there by not succumbing to the classic temptations to clip shadows and/or highlights to produce a more obviously dramatic but a less lively, nuanced, and expressive tonal scale. Instead, hold the full dynamic range with a real black and white and also create gorgeous separation in the values nearest to them.
So many times we give the lion’s share of the contrast to the midtones. Midtone contrast is really important. But that doesn’t mean we have to sacrifice the light in highlights by making them too hot to look at comfortably or in shadows making them so dark they turn to murky mud. You can hold separation in these extreme ends of the tonal scale and produce beautiful qualities of light that complement not just contrast. Here’s how.