Photo Editing223 articles

Take your photos to the next level with these innovative, step-by-step editing guides for Photoshop, Lightroom and many other post-processing photography tools.

How to Improve the Sky of a Photo with Luminar

How to Improve the Sky of a Photo with Luminar

If you’ve ever taken a landscape photo of a great place, then got home and realized just how dull and dreary the sky looks, you’ll know how disappointing it feels! You could spend ages fiddling around manually in your image editor, trying to get some detail and color in the sky, or you could use […]

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New: The Magical Photography Spellbook

New: The Magical Photography Spellbook

This new 267-page instructional eBook shows you how to capture 30 magical still-life photos that most people don’t know how to shoot. This includes fire, splashes, levitation, freezing motion, and more tutorials. It is currently 80% off today for the first 500 customers if you want to check it out. Launch sale found here: The Magical […]

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How to Use Focus Stacking for Tack Sharp Photographs

How to Use Focus Stacking for Tack Sharp Photographs

Due to limitations of our lenses, getting tack sharp exposures in which the foreground and background are both in perfect focus can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately, the clever folks behind Adobe Photoshop have implemented a very helpful tool into the popular image editing software. Using Photoshop’s stacking tool allows you to stack multiple images into […]

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Photographing and Editing Real Estate Interiors

Photographing and Editing Real Estate Interiors

Real estate photography is all about presentation. You really want to showcase the best look of the location that you’re shooting. This means that the composition should be spot on, and you may want to be picky about what you want or do not want in your frame. Besides the shooting process, how you choose […]

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How to Create a Luminosity Mask in Photoshop

How to Create a Luminosity Mask in Photoshop

In this article, let’s look at HOW you can actually create your first luminosity mask for yourself… You can run through these steps on your own shot, try to pick a shot that’s kinda similar for the purpose of this demo – i.e. a bright sky with a dark foreground. First step, open up the […]

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Simple Tips to Make Photo Editing Less Stressful

Simple Tips to Make Photo Editing Less Stressful

We know a lot of photographers get scared when it comes to editing photos. The workflow is complex and adjustments can seem myriad. But the photo-editing process does not have to be complicated at all. If you’re worried about making the right moves in post-processing, we have the right video for you today. Professional photographer […]

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Saving Time in Photo Editing: A Look at Mask AI

Saving Time in Photo Editing: A Look at Mask AI

Relevant note: only a little while left for the Luminar Neo Easter Sale Now that photographers have access to Luminar Neo, we’ve been getting a better look at some of the new tools in it’s arsenal. Today we are looking at it’s AI-based masking tool. Instead of spending hours manually masking or refining details, you […]

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Sky Swapping Tips in Photoshop

Sky Swapping Tips in Photoshop

Have you ever tried replacing a sky in Photoshop? It’s great practice for honing your skills, learning how to edit and adjust light and color in your landscapes. It’s also a great way to transform dull and boring shots into something much nicer to look at, as long as you don’t mind being a little […]

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Photo Editing Seamlessly Across Lightroom and Photoshop

Photo Editing Seamlessly Across Lightroom and Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are undoubtedly the most popular software among photographers today. While many use Lightroom to make basic adjustments and to catalog their images, Photoshop is widely used to make advanced edits. Thus, there can be circumstances when you want to take your images from Lightroom to Photoshop, and back. The good news […]

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Landscape Photo Editing: Finding the Perfect Amount

Landscape Photo Editing: Finding the Perfect Amount

Someone asked me: “how do I know when enough is enough? [when editing my photos]”. And it’s a great question! But the thing is, there’s no way to give a precise answer to this question that will work for everyone. So here’s how I’d answer it: You just kinda need to hit the “goldilocks zone”. […]

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