Photoshop How To

There are so many tools for editing and organizing your images in Lightroom, it's easy to miss some basic, essential stuff. In the below video from photographer/retoucher/software instructor Anthony Morganti, he shares "5 Lightroom tips you wish you knew already!"

Are you comfortable letting other people edit your photos? And if you were to edit someone else's photos in, for instance, Lightroom, what's the first thing you would do? What's the last thing? How would you know if you've pushed the edits too far?

Photoshop is such a rich and, ahem, layered program it seems impossible to know everything it can do. In fact, there are many photo editing features that even the most software-savvy photographers might not know about.

Getting the right color in your landscape photos is key. Sometimes, though, you might need a little help, especially when working on images in Lightroom. Landscape photographer Mark Denney is here to offer some help in the below video, titled "7 Simple Tips to Improve Color in Your Landscape Photos."

Los Angeles-based boudoir photographer Michael Sasser is here to dispel a myth. While it's certainly not ideal, you can shoot flattering portraits in harsh sunlight.

Working with hair selections for cut-outs in Photoshop is no easy task but hopefully the below video from Nathaniel Dodson at Tutvid will help turn you into a virtual barber on your portraits in no time.

You don't, necessarily, need a fancy and pricey lens with a fast aperture to shoot an image with attractive background blur, aka bokeh, for portraits. In the below tutorial from Unmesh Dinda of PIXimperfect, he shows you the "key" to simulating shallow depth of field in Photoshop.