Photo How To

Very few experienced landscape photographers head out in the field without a polarizing filter in their bag. That's because these affordable accessories can be used to darken pale skies, enhance saturation, and remove unwanted reflections that spoil a shot.

This timesaving tutorial will enable you to apply any of your edits, like AI Denoise, to dozens, hundreds or even thousands of similar images. It turns out that there are three straightforward ways to quickly get the job done using the recent June update to Adobe's Lightroom ecosystem.

Let's assume you captured a difficult-to-edit landscape photo with super bright highlights in the sky and very deep shadows in the foreground, and you simply can't balance these divergent tones with one shot in the camera.

Today's tutorial from the Flying Parrot Photography YouTube channel reveals six common shooting mistakes that will compromise the images you capture of our feathered friends, whether you're shooting at a local park, nearby nature reserve, or in the comfort of your backyard.

This eye-opening video is for those of you who aren't quite sure about the difference between Photoshop Adjustments and Adjustment Layers. There's room for both in your everyday workflow, but it's important to understand which approach to use when and the best techniques to employ.

Adobe just unloaded a boatful of innovative updates across their entire Lightroom and Photoshop ecosystem, and we'll be bringing you all the details one at a time. But there's one impressive capability, known as Variance, that seems to be flying under the radar and that's what you'll use learn how to use today so you don't miss it later on.

Today we're taking a quick look at the new Enhance features in Lightroom Classic, specifically how to apply Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution to photographs non-destructively. Here's how Adobe expert Julienne Kost introduces the topic: "This technology update provides additional flexibility when editing and reduces the use of disk space as well as the number of files that need to be managed."