Photo Tools Weekly

Get photo editing techniques to help make your photos look better in just a few minutes. Chris Orwig shares insider tips for Photoshop, Lightroom, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome

March 2020

• Series Conclusion
• Create a strong black-and-white character portrait
• Create a modern look for a portrait
• Adding light and life to the eyes
• Quick color change for a backdrop

February 2020

• Makes colors pop with Lightroom
• Salvage an underexposed image
• Finish a fashion photo
• Make a vacation photo come to life

January 2020

• Sharing Lightroom images for client review
• Correcting perspective in Lightroom
• Finish an outdoor adventure photo
• Add color to a studio portrait

December 2019

• Improving a travel photo
• Opening up the shadows
• Preparing an image for social

November 2019

• Cropping for impact and social media
• Advanced masking in Photoshop
• Making a landscape photo pop
• Family photos workflow

October 2019

• Improving a vacation photo
• Advanced selections and retouching
• Color grading with a gradient map
• Mocking up a magazine cover
• Batch process color and BW

September 2019

• Illuminating the eyes of wolf
• Combining two image for better composition
• Using Lightroom for mobile and Photoshop together
• Improving a portrait of Sophia

August 2019

• Photoshop advanced filters
• Sharpening in Lightroom
• Sharpening in Photoshop
• Preparing a photo for Instagram stories

July 2019

• Photoshop masking tips
• Better work with layers
• Preparing a photo for Instagram with Lightroom for mobile
• Using radial filters in Lightroom

June 2019

• Studio portrait, part 1: Lightroom
• Studio portrait, part 2: Photoshop retouching
• Studio portrait, part 3: Photoshop color
• Improving a portrait with Lightroom for mobile

May 2019

• Retouching linear objects
• Expert spot removal and color in Lightroom
• Bridesmaid portrait
• Creating black-and-white drama in Lightroom
• Creating a pano with Lightroom CC

April 2019

• Adding drama to a studio portrait
• Removing difficult objects with Lightroom and Photoshop
• Adding light with Lightroom
• Crop and prepare an image for Instagram

March 2019

• Content-Aware Mirroring and fixing patterns
• Using Content-Aware Fill for layouts
• Improving a landscape
• Adding visual interest to an outdoor portrait

February 2019

• More control with Content Aware
• Creating magic and mood
• Retouching a conceptual image
• Retouching with what you have

January 2019

• Finishing the high-ISO night photo
• Quick fix of a background
• Lightroom CC Classic folder tips
• Fixing light in a portrait with transition glasses
• Combining two frames

December 2018

• Combine two RAW files for best results
• Extend canvas by cropping
• Lightroom Classic CC travel tip: Combine catalogs

November 2018

• Guide shortcuts: Diptych, Whitney
• Image reveal all
• Enhancing night cityscape
• Quick portrait retouching
• Lightroom spotting tip

October 2018

• Detail extraction technique
• B&W pop
• Rock star look
• Finding the keeper

September 2018

• Fixing a wedding photo
• Finding the hero shot
• Landscape in Lightroom
• Sunrise colors pop

August 2018

• Photoshop: Mocking up layout ideas
• Finding the keepers
• Finishing the keepers in Lightroom
• Creating stylistic color with Photoshop

July 2018

• Adding wings and angelic light
• Review, reorder, and rename in Bridge
• Bridge for preparing files for presentations
• Find photo within photo

June 2018

• Tip to select multiple people
• Two quick crop techniques
• Big Sur project: Adding copy
• Making a subject glow

May 2018

• Better background blur
• Creating a custom keyboard shortcut
• Surfer silhouette project, part 1
• Surfer silhouette project, part 2
• Color to portrait: Jon

April 2018

• Three ways to create a new layer in Photoshop
• Merging layers in Photoshop
• Grouping layers in Photoshop
• Photoshop new feature: Select Subject

March 2018

• Essential shortcuts in Lightroom CC
• Installing and using presets in Lightroom CC
• Open as layers from Lightroom Classic or Bridge
• Retouching expert tip

February 2018

• Workflow strategy when shooting Raw + JPG
• Quicker processing with review and camera calibration
• Creating a concept layout with Lightroom and Photoshop
• Fun layer project in Photoshop and Lightroom
• Brush away unwanted objects in Lightroom CC

January 2018

• Add layer style effects to a type layer
• Photoshop layers tip
• Improving a sports shot with Lightroom
• Making a backlight photo pop with Lightroom CC

December 2017

• Make those colors pop with Lightroom
• Using Photoshop adjustment layers
• Photoshop type techniques

November 2017

• Color and luminance masking in Lightroom
• Sharing images from inside Photoshop
• Cropping with Lightroom for mobile
• Improving light, color, and cuteness
• Creating a cool light effect

October 2017

• Lightroom for mobile: Creating vivid color
• Creating a custom contact sheet
• Change a color in Lightroom
• Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC tips
• Localized masking in Lightroom

September 2017

• Select before you correct
• Retouching away shadows
• Crafting looks and using layer comps
• Retouching a portrait of a wolf

August 2017

• Using blur and type, part 1
• Using blur and type, part 2
• Better black and white workflow, part 1
• Better black and white workflow, part 2
• Action sports retouching, part 1
• Action sports retouching, part 2
• Face-Aware Liquify
• Fixing teeth in a fashion photograph

July 2017

• Awesome color with adjustment layers
• Natural light portrait retouching
• Using selections and Transform, part 1
• Using selections and Transform, part 2
• Making a creative overlay effect

June 2017

• Replace the sky in a drone photograph
• Creating a great exposure from a single frame, part 1
• Creating a great exposure from a single frame, part 2
• Creating a luminous black-and-white portrait, part 1
• Creating a luminous black-and-white portrait, part 2
• Fixing overexposure with Camera Raw, part 1
• Fixing overexposure with Camera Raw, part 2

May 2017

• Creative layer blending with Adobe Mix
• Making a composite with Adobe Mix
• Bring out detail in a landscape photograph, part 1
• Bring out detail in a landscape photograph, part 2
• Export a image from video footage
• Finishing an iPhone photo

April 2017

• Start to finish with Lightroom for mobile and Adobe Fix
• Extending the canvas with Content Aware Scale
• Ordinary to extraordinary: Lightroom
• Ordinary to extraordinary: Photoshop details
• Ordinary to extraordinary: Photoshop finishing

March 2017

• Applying filter effects inside a selection
• Freezing and Liquify: Smart Filters
• Snapseed to the rescue
• Creating awesome color with Lightroom
• Creating awesome color with Photoshop

February 2017

• Lightroom for mobile and Adobe Clip
• Speeding up your work by reusing layer masks
• Improving mobile photos with VSCO
• Combine photography and branding with blending modes

January 2017

• Softening skin with Adobe Fix
• From boring and flat to fantastic
• Lightroom for mobile local adjustments
• Fixing edges with Content-Aware Crop

December 2016

• From ordinary to extraordinary: Using Photoshop to elevate your frames
• Making precise and beautiful color adjustments
• Enhancing the eyes in a portrait

November 2016

• Combining the best expressions from two images
• Celebrity portrait workflow in Lightroom: Part 1
• Celebrity portrait workflow in Lightroom: Part 2
• Creative layer blending project
• Replacing a background and creating vivid colors
• Jump for joy: Finishing a beach photo in Lightroom and Photoshop

October 2016

• Changing color in Camera Raw
• Using Liquify to achieve natural results
• Fixing shiny skin and stylizing with color
• Creating a three-image layout in Photoshop

September 2016

• Becoming an expert with changing color
removing jewelry
• Portrait Retouching
• Workflow tips for selections, masks and adjustment layer
• Improving a portrait of a surfer
August 2016
• Becoming an expert with masking in Photoshop
• Advanced masking speed tips
• Preparing a portrait for Instagram with Lightroom
• Finishing a portrait with Photoshop
• Using Lightroom to creating a stylized look that prints well
• Cleaning up a creative portrait
• Hacking Lightroom to create layouts for other projects
July 2016
• Using Content Aware Scale to add to the composition
• Extending and filling in the background projects
• How to create Gradient Tone Mapping color effects
• Creating more precise Gradient Map effects
• Natural wrinkle reduction
• Advanced wrinkle reduction
• Tips for viewing and organizing your layers in Photoshop
• Becoming an expert in layers in Photoshop
June 2016
• Using VSCO in Lightroom
• Syncing adjustments in Lightroom
• High-impact color with Camera Raw and Photoshop
• Using Lightroom and Photoshop to create vivid color
• Intro to better B&W with the Silver Effex Pro plugin
• Taking a deeper dive into Silver Effex Pro
• Creating a Panoramic Photo in Lightroom
• Advanced Lightroom and Photoshop Pano Workflow
May 2016
• Opening raw files into Photoshop
• Three ways to work with Camera Raw and Photoshop
• Smart Filters: Using Smart Filters for creative options
• Stacking up Smart Filter effects
• Cleaning up and removing the background of an image
• Two ways to add a new background
• Covering up problems in the frame
• Removing a person and finishing a photograph
April 2016
• Photoshop Fix to Photoshop CC workflow
• Add light to photos with Lightroom
• Use Lightroom Collections to process color and black-and-white images
• Skin smoothing with the Imogenic plugin Portraiture
• Advanced Skin Smoothing Control with Portraiture
March 2016
• Accurate sharpening with Lightroom
• Create Collections in Lightroom
• Craft creative looks with the Alien Skin Exposure plugin in Lightroom
• Use the Alien Skin Exposure plugin in Photoshop
• Quick mobile retouching with Photoshop Fix
February 2016
• Add Lens Flare with more precise control
• Two ways to crop in Photoshop and extend the canvas
• A few methods for working with canvas size
• Use plugins in Photoshop for special effects: Analog Efex Pro
• Use plugins in Photoshop for special effects: Analog Efex Pro Advanced
January 2016
• Lightroom cropping shortcuts
• Remove unwanted objects in Photoshop
• Remove unwanted objects in Photoshop: Advanced
• Use plugins in Photoshop for better results: Color Efex Pro
• Preserve tones with the help of Lightroom clipping indicators