Feeling stagnant in your photography and photo editing journey? Mark Denney recommends you try this one exercise to truly test how far you’ve come. You may be surprised by the difference and the number of skills you’ve accumulated along the way! All you need is an old edited photo to compare and an unedited version […]
Sharpness is a necessity when it comes to professional photography. However, it’s not a given, especially at a closer range to a subject or when using a wider aperture. A significant amount of blur and out-of-focus area can spoil an image — but focus stacking can help! Pro landscape photographer Mark Denney is here to […]
You could consider real estate photography to be a sort of product photography. That’s because the intention of both genres of photography is to help businesses sell. It is thus equally important in architecture photography that you present the final image in the best way possible. Editing thus becomes a key part of the process. […]
Imagine that you have just processed a color image and that you are happy with the result. But you’d also like to experiment with it a little. Perhaps you’re curious to see how it will look if you convert it to black and white. Maybe you’d like to give it a different look using a […]
Many times when you are processing portraits in Lightroom or Photoshop you are working towards a soft, pleasing look. However, with some portraits you may be after a more dramatic and intense look. In this tutorial we’ll take a quick look at how you can create an intense portrait in Lightroom, and we’ll also showcase […]
Today’s lesson is based on concepts from the Lightroom Mastery Guide which is currently 50% off if you want to dig deeper for further training. In this tutorial we’ll go through the steps required to create that coveted desaturated look that is quite common in movies and television, as well as in advertisements and posters—it’s […]
Are you tired of spending hours on end fiddling around in Lightroom Classic and not getting the results you expect? This in-depth eBook is designed to help photographers master Lightroom Classic to its full potential. Not by droning repetitions of someone else’s editing style, but through teaching you the basic premises of the software using […]
This step-by-step guide will teach you how to use the Select Sky tool in Adobe Lightroom. I think you will agree with me when I say it’s hard to quickly select the sky. Well, it turns out you can select a sky Precisely and quickly using the latest Lightroom tools. Let us dive right in […]
Software is smarter than ever before. For photographers, this has greatly simplified the editing workflow and made complex tasks easier. A great example is when Adobe introduced range masks some years back. This allowed photographers to quickly create masks based on a certain color or brightness, thereby saving time. This time around, with a recent […]
Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are undoubtedly the most popular software among photographers today. While many use Lightroom to make basic adjustments and to catalog their images, Photoshop is widely used to make advanced edits. Thus, there can be circumstances when you want to take your images from Lightroom to Photoshop, and back. The good news […]
