- Cropping and Straightening in Lightroom
- May 2, 2008
- A crooked horizon line or an extra person in the image can spoil an otherwise great photo. Scott Kelby shows how to straighten a picture or magically decrease the number of people in the room.
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- How To Back Up And Keep Your Lightroom Images Safe
- May 2, 2008
- Accidents happen. So do viruses. Are you prepared? Martin Evening gives a brief review of the backup options in Lightroom to help you (hopefully) prevent or at least recover from trouble.
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- Using Lightroom's HSL / Color / Grayscale Panel
- May 1, 2008
- Need to make some fine-tuned color adjustments in Lightroom? Martin Evening shows the way with tips for using the HSL / Color / Grayscale panel.
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- Creating a Musical Photomontage with Premiere CS3: Part 3
- Apr 30, 2008
- In this third and final tutorial in his series, Paul Ekert will show you how to add a little spice to your montage. You'll also see the effective use of transitions and filters and learn how to create a Picture-in-Picture effect (PiP).
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- Jumping Between Lightroom and Photoshop
- Apr 28, 2008
- Lightroom is pretty darn slick, but sometimes you need to "Photoshop" a photo. There's a reason that Adobe has all of these great tools with different but related features: They work as a family. You can send images back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop, and Scott Kelby explains how and when to do that.
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- Seeing Before/After Versions in Lightroom
- Apr 24, 2008
- Scott Kelby explains how to make the most of Lightroom's before/after views.
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- Color Me Badd: Color Correction for Photographers
- Apr 23, 2008
- Best-selling authors Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski use their shared wit and photo-editing expertise to show you every cool trick in the book for color correcting photos in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.
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- There's Always Something to Bounce Light Off Of
- Apr 21, 2008
- Veteran author Joe McNally, whose work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, and Time (to name a few), shares the stories behind some of his greatest shots as well as the lighting techniques he used to make them great.
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- Finding the Photos You Want in Lightroom, Fast!
- Apr 16, 2008
- With just a few steps, Scott Kelby says, you can get set up to find a picture when you're in a rush. (And isn't that most of the time these days?)
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- Creating a Musical Photomontage with Premiere CS3: Part 2
- Apr 15, 2008
- In the first article of this three-part series, Paul Ekert showed you how to automatically create a photomontage set to music using Premiere CS3. Part 2 demonstrates how to alter the scale of the images, move inaccurate markers to a better position, and trim the images to these new points.
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- Using Lightroom’s Tone Curve Controls
- Apr 11, 2008
- Lightroom's Tone Curve controls provide a straightforward way to make tone curve adjustments based on descriptive criteria. They're not as restrictive as they might seem at first, as Martin Evening demonstrates.
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- Creating a Musical Photomontage with Premiere CS3: Part 1
- Apr 10, 2008
- In a series of three articles, Paul Ekert will use the simple premise of a musical photomontage to demonstrate core Premiere skills often overlooked by beginners and proficient users alike.
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- Photoshop Author Matt Kloskowski’s Five Faves
- Apr 9, 2008
- Everyone has favorites. We asked Matt Kloskowski, the education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals—and host of our Photoshop Reference Guide—about a few of his.
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- Correcting an Underexposed Image in Lightroom
- Apr 8, 2008
- Everyone overexposes an occasional photo. You might do it deliberately, in order to convey a certain mood, but more often than not it's an accident and you won't like the result. Martin Evening shows how to use Lightroom to fix those images on which you got a little carried away.
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- Liven Up Your Design Through Repetition
- Apr 2, 2008
- Author Robin Williams offers practical, fun advice on creating continuity through repetition to make your design work appear more cohesive and professional.
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- Make Quick Fix Edits in Photoshop Elements 6
- Apr 1, 2008
- Jeff Carlson shows how to make editing your photos easy with Photoshop Elements 6's Quick Fix tool.
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- Stay Organized by Stacking Similar Photos in Lightroom
- Mar 31, 2008
- When you take multiple shots of a single pose, eventually you'll want to winnow them down to the best of the bunch. Until you get around to doing that, Scott Kelby recommends "stacking" the shots to save screen space and cut down the number of poses you're viewing. Lightroom's stacking capabilities make it simple.
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- My Top 10 Favorite Features of Photoshop Express Beta
- Mar 28, 2008
- Photoshop author and instructor Matt Kloskowski takes a first look at the newest and coolest features in the brand new Photoshop Express beta.
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- Smarter Image Editing in Lightroom
- Mar 28, 2008
- Lightroom is simpler to use than Photoshop, says Martin Evening, and without compromising the quality of color processing in any way. In this article, he points out some special Lightroom features for smarter editing of digital images.
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- Do Not Fear the Layer Mask: Tips for Using One of Photoshop's Most Powerful Tools
- Mar 21, 2008
- Matt Kloskowski takes the fear out of learning to use layer masks with quick, fun tips that show you how to make the most of one of Photoshop's most powerful tools.
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