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Three Steps to Strengthening your Creative Workflow

Lightroom and Photoshop are supposed to be fun programs to use...and the first step to a simpler, more enjoyable darkroom…

Why you Should Always Auto Bracket a Landscape for Exposure Blending

Have you ever photographed a beautiful landscape only to find that your images rarely represent the stunning scene you witnessed? Most…

The Adjustment Brush

Table of Contents 0:05Lesson Overview and Brush Basics3:42Quick Walkthrough of Applying the Adjustment Brush8:47The Importance of the Brush Overlay10:23Brush Feathering:…

Sharpening in Lightroom

Welcome to your FREE Lightroom Classic lesson on sharpening! Image sharpening is probably the most important step of processing your…

Introduction to Lightroom Classic

Welcome to your FREE Lightroom Classic lesson! Thanks for joining me, and I hope you're ready to finally learn how…

My Future with Lightroom Classic and Thoughts on CC

There's big news from Adobe this week and it has left a lot of Lightroom users either totally confused or…

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