Let's face it: no matter how good you are or how many landscape photos you've taken, you WILL face highlight blowouts. It's not a matter of IF, but WHEN! Ideally, we want to get everything perfect in-camera, but if we don't, we no longer have to throw out those...

Dang! This may be one of the most genius uses I've discovered for fixing Hot Spots in portraits and Color Grading Highlight Blowouts in landscapes. Many people reach for a Luminosity mask for these corrections, but I've got something that will blow any Luminosity Mask...

One thing we should avoid like the plague while editing in Photoshop is overly blown-out highlights and clipped shadows. If we aren't careful during editing, we could do more harm than good while working. Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom have clipping warnings built...

Creating double exposures in Photoshop is a relatively simple task. Most will go straight to masking, and that is one great technique. However, there are other methods, like Blend If, that can give us a unique look for double exposures. What is double exposure? In...

We often use Curves in our workflow. It's a staple in almost every genre of photography. But how often do you venture into the beautiful world of color or RGB Curves? Probably not as often as you'd care to mention. No worries, I didn't either. At least not until I...

So you think you know everything about the HSL Adjustment Layer in Photoshop? Well, I have a doozy of a tutorial for you today! I will uncover the HSL Range tool and show you how powerful this feature is that you are more than likely glancing over. I get it, those two...

Color is everywhere, and we use it to process our color digital images. It's probably one of the most important things for you to master in your raw workflow. That's why I am going to share 5 Color Theory secrets with you today that will help you better understand the...

Our mid-year update to Adobe Camera Raw is HUGE! While the features they included are seemingly small, their implementation in your workflow is incredible.Last year we received masking in Adobe Camera Raw, which turned our local adjustment tools into...

In today's lesson, I will teach you how to detect and avoid over saturation in your color images. Saturation is like salt, it's necessary for colors to pop, but too much of it or used in the wrong place and you can ruin your images rather quickly. We are going to talk...

Adobe's Sky Replacement tool is pretty cool, right? I agree it is pretty cool, but did you know there is an even EASIER and more effective way to replace skies in Photoshop with Blend If? Today I will show you how to replace a sky with two sliders and two sliders...

Have you ever struggled with your "photo mojo"?Have you ever felt uninspired?Have you ever felt like inspiration was unattainable?Well, I can honestly say yes to all of those questions. And until recently, I felt like inspiration was one of those things you had to...

A few weeks ago I showed you some tips and tricks for Color Photography using Photoshop.  That video went over SO well, thank you for the response and support!  I received a lot of questions about how that knowledge could be applied to Lightroom.  While Lightroom and...

  I know what I said about AI in the past and I still mean it 🙂 AI cannot make educated artistic decisions, HOWEVER, in some cases, it can provide us with a decent starting point. In today's video, I will simplify one of the most difficult compositing techniques...