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How To Use The Spot Removal Tool in Adobe Lightroom

  • January 22, 2025
  • Posted by Kris Fulk
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Retouching portraits have never been easier with the tools available in Adobe Lightroom. One of the most powerful tools you will use is the Spot Removal tool (Q key...

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New Features in Lightroom Classic 7.5 and Lightroom CC 3.6

  • December 20, 2018
  • Posted by Gerry Kingsley
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Adobe recently released update 7.5 for Lightroom Classic as well as an update for Lightroom CC version 3.6. While these updates aren’t necessarily game-changing, they do come with improvements...

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How to Use Split Toning to Color Grade Your Images in Lightroom

  • January 13, 2019
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Color grading photographs is an essential part of retouching, as beautiful skin and hair can be undermined by a poor use of color. There is no shortage of methods...

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Auto Mask: The Lightroom Power Tool You Probably Never Heard Of

  • December 26, 2018
  • Posted by Gerry Kingsley
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Every once in a while we discover a retouching tip or trick that blows us away, and we wonder how it was possible that we had not already heard...

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Manipulating Hues with the Color Tool in Lightroom

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RAW conversion applications like Adobe Lightroom are often the first place that color grading begins. One incredibly useful tool that tends to be forgotten about is the Color Tool. In...

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Darktable Now Available in Windows Too

  • January 22, 2025
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Beginner photographers and retouchers who are looking for free alternatives to Adobe subscription software until their hobby turns into a freelance business, may be delighted to know that Darktable,...

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Adobe Lightroom contains a plethora of hidden settings and shortcuts that can make photo-editing a breeze. This helpful tutorial by photographer, Evan Ranft will guide you through his top...

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