Videos

We recently featured a quick tutorial explaining how to use Tone Curve post-processing tools to rehabilitate poorly-exposed photographs. But most photographers prefer getting things right in the camera, and that's what you'll learn how to do in the next six minutes.

Adobe expert and educator Colin Smith is back with another quick-and-timely post-processing tutorial that anyone can master quickly. In this video he explains the concept behind Photoshop's new Frame tool capabilities. Then he walks you through the step-by step method for using them to advantage.

Lightroom's Basic panel is often the first stop when photographers process their images. The idea to make several global adjustments to prepare a photo for the more involved enhancements that follow. When done right you're on the path to success, but an improper approach can compromise the effectiveness of your subsequent workflow.

It can be difficult to nail exposure when photographing complicated landscape scenes, especially when snow covers the ground and can easily "fool" your camera's light meter. This tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel provides a quick-and-effective fix using Lightroom's Tone Curve tools.

Inexperienced Lightroom and Photoshop users often concentrate on sharpening and exposure adjustments while ignoring the task of enhancing colors because they fail to understand how color grading works. If this describes the workflow you use, today's beginners guide is exactly what you need.

Professional photographers spend years studying, practicing, and refining their shooting and editing techniques before really hitting their stride, and this video from an accomplished pro is intended to shorten your learning curve by revealing five "huge mistakes" made by self-taught shooters.

It's a dead giveaway that you're new to post-processing if the images you edit are oversaturated because you took a heavy-handed approach with one of Lightroom's most overused tools. By doing so you just spoiled an otherwise great shot because it no longer appears realistic.