How to Add Light Rays in Photoshop With Your Own Brushes

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make light rays in Photoshop using an easy technique. To do that, you’ll use different filters and color adjustments. These light ray Photoshop brushes are great if you want to enhance the existing light on your photos or add light ray overlays to your photo manipulations… Continue reading How to Add Light Rays in Photoshop With Your Own Brushes

Shining light on disabilities in your commercial shoots

More than one in four (26%) adults in the United States have some type of disability. That’s an estimated 61 million people. But research from Nielsen, released in 2021, reveals that only 1% of primetime ads include representations of disability-related visuals, themes, or topics. What’s more, just 3% of advertising spend in primetime went to… Continue reading Shining light on disabilities in your commercial shoots

The best camera bags for travel in 2022

Amazon We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Best Overall WANDRD PRVKE SEE IT Best Sling Bag Peak Design Everyday Sling SEE IT Best Roller Bag Pelican Air 1535 SEE IT The right camera bag will go a long way in keeping your… Continue reading The best camera bags for travel in 2022

One thing: What is your digital shoebox? Do you have a legacy plan for your photos?

Before digital photography we had shoeboxes. Where is your digital shoebox? Where are your photos? Most of you can probably answer that question quickly, but take it one step further: does anybody else know where your photos are? What happens to your photos if something happens to you? What is your photo legacy? I began… Continue reading One thing: What is your digital shoebox? Do you have a legacy plan for your photos?

How to Make Local Changes in Lightroom Classic Using the Range Tool (Luminance Masking)

You can make creative tweaks to parts of an image with a variety of tools in Adobe Lightroom, but it can be time-consuming to brush over exactly the part of the image you want to adjust. With the help of luminance masking, you have the best of both worlds: quick, tightly controled adjustments, without using Photoshop.  Local Adjustments in… Continue reading How to Make Local Changes in Lightroom Classic Using the Range Tool (Luminance Masking)

The Flickr Foundation promises to protect important historical photos

Flickr Commons Content of every type disappears from the internet all the time. Most of the early work I did from the beginning of my career, for instance, has vanished into the digital aether, never to be seen again (but maybe that’s a good thing in some cases). The newly founded Flickr Foundation exists to… Continue reading The Flickr Foundation promises to protect important historical photos

Best GoPros for 2022

GoPro We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Best for 360 GoPro Max SEE IT Best overall GoPro Hero11 Black SEE IT Best for kids GoPro Hero8 Black SEE IT GoPro cameras have been capturing gnarly footage for roughly two decades. In that… Continue reading Best GoPros for 2022

How to Export JPGs from Lightroom Classic

Perhaps the greatest joy of photography is sharing your work with others and showcasing your creations. The path to getting the image online, however, can be difficult. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to export web-ready images with the best results. The Compression Dance Whether your images are being loaded onto a website or… Continue reading How to Export JPGs from Lightroom Classic