Photoshop How To

Exposing photos for the highlights can be a valuable technique for shooting during the day, and even more essential after the sun drops below the horizon. This tutorial provides two examples of the power of this technique and includes editing tips for quickly perfecting your results.

Landscape scenes often contain such a wide range of tones that it's often difficult (if not impossible) to get the light right in the camera—and underexposed photos are a common result. Today's Lightroom tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel demonstrates an effective restoration,

Lightroom is so jam-packed with features that it's easy to overlook a few powerful capabilities when devising your personal workflow. In the quick tutorial below you'll learn why one accomplished pro says, "The Calibration panel is "the best tool for editing photos quickly and beautifully," and today he demonstrates how easy it is to use.

All frequent Shutterbug fans are familiar with the powerful tutorials we post regularly from the popular PHLOG Photography YouTube channel—each devoted to a specific post-processing task. Today's episode is a bit different because it reveals a foolproof workflow, rather than a singular technique, that's super effective for editing just about every image you shoot.

Earlier this week we posted a tutorial explaining how to accelerate the editing process in Lightroom by creating custom Presets that you can use over and over again for different types of images. Today we're taking things further with an unfamiliar method that one pro says will "instantly improve your workflow."

The first thing that often comes to mind when using Selections during the editing process is removing, and then replacing, a background. It's true that Photoshop's powerful Section tools work great for this purpose, but there's a lot more they can do as you'll see in the tutorial below.

If you’re the type of photographer who like saving a few bucks here and there, you'll love the premise of today's Lightroom tutorial: "Do NOT buy presets. Make your own, it's simple to do." And believe it or not, even inexperienced users can quickly get the job done by following the straightforward advice.