How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

With Lightroom’s Smart Previews you can work on your Lightroom catalog without access to the image files. This is a powerful, but under-appreciated feature of Lightroom. Smart Previews give you the freedom to keep working even if you lose access to the drive that stores your image files. This feature makes it easy to send… Continue reading How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

Why bother renaming your image files? Isn’t IMG_4232.RAW good enough for most photographers? So you use an app, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, to manage yours: good choice. But what happens if you lose your catalog, and all that careful organization goes with it? One smart habit is to keep some specific, basic metadata in the filenames… Continue reading How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

Create Cinematic Lighting in After Effects

Jump into After Effects and learn how to create beautiful cinematic effects on any footage. Learn about depth, texture, and motivation, and discover how to create new lighting or enhance the existing lighting. Which aspect of cinematic lighting do you want to learn? Jump straight to the section that interests you the most: Introduction to… Continue reading Create Cinematic Lighting in After Effects

What Every Photographer Should Know About Depth of Field and Exposure

Go further into the fundamentals of photography by taking an in-depth look at the concepts of exposure and depth of field in this easy-to-follow course.  Jump to straight to a chapter to get started: Introduction Exposure Depth of Field Real-World Examples Conclusion What You’ll Learn How to understand ISO and the noise implications How to… Continue reading What Every Photographer Should Know About Depth of Field and Exposure

One Thing: How a little camera made my day less stressful

The right webcam can make all the difference with remote work and clients. (Navin Kumar) The pandemic forced many of us to repurpose our homes into ad-hoc classrooms, unequipped gyms and barebones home offices. Video calls, for better or worse, became the new norm through which many of us connected with colleagues and clients. We… Continue reading One Thing: How a little camera made my day less stressful