Color Versus Black-and-White

What to consider when making the creative choice to convert images to black-and-white

Automating Photoshop

Get your work done faster in Photoshop so you can enjoy the finer things in life

Creative Color

Explore the Calibration panel as a gateway to colorful effects

Mastering Contrast

A great image relies on a solid foundation of tonal values

Bringing Your Ideas to Life

Exploring the process of idea-to-image photography projects

Using Photoshop on the iPad

Terry White takes us on a tour of Photoshop on the iPad

Transformative Lighting

Learn how simple lighting changes can make a huge difference in your portraits

Scott Kelby’s 14th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

All the help you need to find the perfect gift for the photographer on your holiday list

Flying High

Learn how to fly high in Lightroom by avoiding the five biggest processing mistakes

20th Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips Issue

Welcome to the 20th anniversary of our “Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips” issue!

Classic Hollywood

Learn to create beautiful Hollywood-style portraits with bounce lighting

The Eyes Have It

Learn the best practices when retouching eyes for the high-end market

Grab Your Camera and Saddle Up

Rick Sammon shares his favorite tips for capturing amazing horse photographs

The Science of Color

Understanding color profiles and color proofing is critical for getting your colors to look right when printing your images

Easily Share Photo Galleries with Lightroom Web

Syncing Lightroom Classic collections will allow you to easily share photo galleries and get feedback on your images using Lightroom web

Living on the Edge

From creative sharpening to output sharpening, there are a lot of tools in Photoshop that can make your images stand out in the wilderness

The Lightroom Ecosystem Gets a Cascade of New Features

Take a tour of the latest features in the Lightroom ecosystem

In the Wings

When the going gets tough, Photoshop plug-ins can help you weather the storm and get the job done

Dodging and Burning in Lightroom

Learn how to dodge and burn your images to perfection

Easily Distracted

Don’t let unwanted elements in your images capture the eyes of your viewers

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. The Secret to Successful Street Photography

Learn the perfect formula for capturing the types of street photographs that you envision

Spellbinding Composites

How to bring your imagination to life through photography and Photoshop

Capturing Wildlife from Photo Blinds

Tips and techniques for capturing beautiful wildlife images from photography blinds

Color Control

Quick-and-easy color-correcting techniques that will make your portraits pleasing to the eye

Hand-Coloring Photographs in Lightroom

Learn how to hand-color black-and-white images using the Adjustment Brush.

Landscapes: Reality vs. Photography

Harmonizing color and composition to make landscape images come alive

Lightroom Classic & Lightroom CC Get Updates for the Holidays

Check out all the new features in the recent Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC updates.

Scott Kelby’s 13th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

Great gift ideas for the photographer on your holiday list

Creating HDR Panoramas Is Easier than Ever!

The latest version of Lightroom has streamlined the merging of HDR panoramas

19th Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips

These scary-good Photoshop tips will have your competition shaking in their boots!

Control the Mood of Your Images Using White Balance

White balance can be used to correct the color in your images, or it can be used creatively to control the mood.

The Power of Presets

Creating custom presets can take your workflow and creativity to another dimension!

Make a Photo Workshop Work for You

Learn how to squeeze every last drop out of a photography workshop.

Photographic Conversions

Turn photographic images into works of art with the Mixer Brush tool in Photoshop.

Powerful Portraits with Just One Light

With just one light and a modifier or two, it’s easy to capture amazing images.

Changing Channels

Learn how channels can help you make better selections and edit the color in your images.

Getting Creative with the New Profile Browser

Martin Evening explores the new Profile Browser for creative effects.

Pushing Layer Styles to the Max

Creative layer effects can keep your images and designs from breaking down and being left in the dark.

How to Create Amazing Images in a Home Studio

Learn how to capture powerful portraits in a small home studio.

Retro Strikes Back!

Exploring the past can inspire your present and future designs.

Creative Multiple Exposure with a Single Flash

Learn how to light up a subject as if you have multiple flashes, when in reality you’re only using one flash.

Photoshop to the Rescue!

What do you do when that almost-perfect photo has one little flaw? Fix it in Photoshop, of course!

Creating Environmental HDR Portraits

Learn how to capture and create natural-looking HDR environmental portraits.

It's Time to Stop the Destruction!

A nondestructive workflow isn't only about flexibility, it's also about accuracy, efficiency, and creativity.

Shooting in Chilly Weather

Learn how to capture amazing images when the weather turns cold.

Transformations, Warps, and Liquify, Oh My!

Use Transform Warp, Puppet Warp, and Liquify to turn and twist your subject into the perfect form.

Use the Power of Range Mask to Ignite Your Images

The new Range Mask feature can help you fine-tune all of your local adjustments.

Scott Kelby’s 12th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

Scott Kelby helps you pick out the perfect gifts for all the photographers in your life

Lightroom Classic vs. Lightroom CC

Scott Kelby and Rob Sylvan help us better understand the differences between the two new versions of Lightroom.

18th Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips

You don't have to be a Photoshop prognosticator to get all the best tips!

Shedding Light on the Latest Versions of Lightroom

Learn all about the new Lightroom ecosystem!

Mastering Photoshop Filters

Cultivate better images and graphic designs with Photoshop Filters

The Art of the Self-Portrait

Learn to be a better photographer through the practice of self-portraiture

Making a Big Splash

Photoshop plug-ins are engineered to increase your productivity and creativity.

LR and PS: A Powerful Editing Team

Learn to use Lightroom and Photoshop together for processing better images

Better Selections and Masking

Once you master selections in Photoshop, your imagination will be set free

Exploring the Exposure Triangle

The first step to taking great photographs is to master the exposure triangle.

Photoshop Special Effects

Adding finishing effects to your images will have your clients screaming for more

Transform a Day Photo into a Night Photo!

With the power of Lightroom, you can turn a brightly lit sky into a night sky, turn on street lamps, and light up windows.

What Lies Below

Dive into the world of layers and learn why they're so important to everything you do in Photoshop.

Capturing Amazing Images of Birds in Flight

Rick Sammon shares all of his secrets for shooting birds in flight.

Portrait Retouching: Men vs. Women

When it comes to retouching men vs. women, the features we want to accentuate or diminish are oceans apart.

Tethering for Better B&W

Learn how to use tethering in Lightroom to create beautiful B&W portraits and fashion images.

Sharpening Workflow

Martin Evening tells us how and when to use the tools in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop to keep our images looking sharp.

Under the Loupe

Learn how to start over from scratch in Lightroom without losing all of your hard work.

The Photoshop Ecosystem

Learn how to use the Creative Cloud and mobile apps to take your productivity on the road.

Lightroom Laboratory

In this brand-new column by Serge Ramelli, learn how to turn a photograph taken in bad weather into an amazing shot in Lightroom.

Holiday Gear Guide

It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since Scott Kelby started his "Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide" tradition in Photoshop User.

Developing the Shot

Using Dehaze as a local adjustment with the Graduated Filter.

Painting in the 21st Century

Photoshop, graphics tablets, and pen computers have given modern-day artists the power to push their creativity beyond the limits of their imaginations.

Lightroom Workshop

Using image overlay to fit images to your layout.

100 Photoshop Hot Tips

These tips will not only help boost your productivity but they’ll also kick your creativity into high gear.

Maximum Workflow

LandscapePro is a new plug-in from Anthropics.

Lightroom vs. Capture One Pro

Some reviewers claim that Capture One Pro checkmates Lightroom when it comes to rendering RAW files.

Adding Contrast (& How to Use the Tone Curve)

If I had to point to the biggest problem I see in most people’s images, it’s that their images look flat.

Taking Stock

Overcome creative challenges by skillfully using stock assets.

Under the Loupe

Customizing preference and catalog settings.

Working Together

The applications and features in Adobe Creative Cloud work well together, and also help photographers and designers work better together.

Lightroom Mobile

It was inevitable that Adobe would have to create a new way to handle and process files on phones and tablets.

The Demo Reel

Create amazing video demo reels in Photoshop to help jump-start new career opportunities.

Fixing Family Photos in Lightroom

Let’s look to Lightroom to see what can be done to improve or outright fix the most common problems plaguing our family photos.

Photoshop World 2016

The conference that will carry you away to new worlds of creativity, inspiration, and fun.

Processing Realistic Starscapes

For every outdoor photographer comes a challenge to capture this often awe-inspiring event that occurs with every turn of our globe.

Creativity Anywhere

Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps will help keep your creativity in sync.

Setting the White Balance

I always start editing my photos by setting the white balance first, because if you get the white balance right, the color is right, and your color correction problems pretty much go away.

WYSIWYG Printing

Getting your prints to match what’s onscreen.

Using One-Click Presets

Lightroom comes with a number of built-in Develop module presets that you can apply to any photo with just one click.

10th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

To be listed here, they have to be products that I use myself, and that I absolutely love, and now can’t live without.

Creating Black-and-White Images

There are two auto conversion methods for converting your images from color to black and white.

Chromatic Grayscale

Vincent Versace is an internationally recognized pioneer in the art and science of digital photography, so we were beyond excited when he agreed to teach us how to make better black-and-white images.

Lightroom Workshop

Client proofing using Lightroom on your mobile device.

The Amazing 100 Photoshop Hot Tips

You don't need to fall into a vat of acid or be bitten by a radioactive insect to have Photoshop superpowers that will help you crush your productivity enemies.

The One-Page Website

There are times when you’ll need to share a whole series of images with your client so he can pick the images that he’ll ultimately want to use.

Architectural Photography

Learn how to take amazing exterior and interior shots and then edit them from the ground up in Photoshop.

After the Shoot

Importing and culling images from outdoor shoots.

Outdoor Photography

From wildlife to outdoor portraits, learn how to create captivating images that will have a world of impact.

New Features in Lightroom CC

I think Adobe has really done a great job with Lightroom CC, with many added features that will make your workflow easier and more powerful.

Don't Get Soft On Hardware

It’s important to ensure that the products that support your work are able to handle the archvillains of today’s digital age.

RAW + JPEG in Lightroom

How Lightroom handles RAW + JPEG files, and does it make sense to use this mode in your camera

Creating a Realistic Composite

Learn everything you need to know to create awesome composites in Photoshop.

The Great Watermark Debate

The pros and cons of watermarking and how the Lightroom Watermark Editor can simplify the process

A Lightroom Wedding Workflow

Let’s explore some ways to be more productive in Lightroom.

Cloning, Cleaning, and Healing

Efficient options to minimize your postcapture editing

Photography, Branding, and Design

What should you consider when creating your brand?

8 Bit, 16 Bit, 32 Bit

What does bit-depth mean for digital photographers?

Developing a Business Plan

I often hear people say that they’re creative, but they’re not that good at business, or that they’re business-minded but not really the artsy type.

The Develop Module

Take a look at how the Lens Corrections panel can help you build an incredible portfolio

Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

Featuring an unbridled collection of 100% absolutely necessary gear that there’s no way we can see clear to live another minute of our hopeless, desperate lives without.

Lightroom 5 Beta

Check out the major features and minor improvements to the Lightroom experience

Photographic Illusions

In this type of portrait, the planning of the setup and shots is just as important—or perhaps more important—as the postproduction.

Soft Proofs

How to get picture-perfect prints every time

Mid-Day Madness

What’s a photographer to do when the light isn’t as obviously beautiful as it is at dawn or dusk?

Color Workflow

Working between Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6

Creating Motion Graphics in Photoshop

Photoshop has long been the standard for static image processing, but in this day of social media and smartphones we need it to do more.

DNG Crash Course

Five reasons why DNG is the best format for RAW images

Natural Selections

Creating better and faster selections in Photoshop.

32-Bit HDR

Blend multiple exposures into a 32-bit image for greater control and realism

Altered States

Compositing with photographic elements can crack open a limitless realm of wonderful possibilities.

Photoshop for Professional Video

While many Photoshop users immediately think Photoshop is only used for photography, it’s actually used to manipulate pixels of all kinds.

Superfast Portrait Retouching

Self-employed photographers must follow many rules, but without clients walking through the door, none of those rules matter.

Photoshop and Lightroom: The Dynamic Duo

Photoshop and Lightroom are at the core of many photographers’ imaging workflows.

The Digital Laboratory

Our lab is Photoshop, and all its tools are our bubbling beakers and sizzling electrodes.

Scott Kelby’s 8th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

Scott Kelby’s 8th Annual Gonzo Holiday Gear Guide

3D Type Effects

Manipulate and render 3D Type in Photoshop, with high-end 3D application results

14th Annual 100 Photoshop Hot Tips Issue

Sports Photography by Design

Capture the perfect moment.

Lights, Camera, Photoshop

How to create, edit, and share videos online with the help of Photoshop

Life Is Suite

When and How to Combine the Extraordinary Applications in the Adobe Creative Suite

Postprocessing Techniques for Landscape Photography

From bright skies to dark foregrounds to just about everything in between—learn to overcome Mother Nature's toughest challenges

The Wedding Issue

Everything you need to know to create better wedding and portrait images in Photoshop and Lightroom

Retouching to the Rescue

Retouch, replace, rebuild, or resurrect. Learn how to recognize which skills are required and what tools to use for professional results.

Going Retro

Create authentic retro style effects on modern images

Scott Kelby's Holiday Gear Guide

Jam-packed with cool stuff that you absolutely don't need but desperately want

Nondestructive Photoshop

Edit, tweak, change, and adjust images without permanently damaging the original

100 Photoshop Hot Tips

The world's best Photoshop instructors put together their top 100 Photoshop tips

Layer Styles

Take advantage of what is arguably the most powerful feature in Photoshop

Get Sharp

Pushing sharpness, details, and contrast of your images to the extreme

CS6: From the Inside

Senior Product Manager, Bryan O'Neil Hughes, gives us an inside look at the making of Photoshop CS6.

Crazy Deadline, No Budget

Time-tested methods and resources for being on time and staying within your budget

Going Hollywood

Creating classic black-and-white portraits

The Third Dimension

Using 3D to bring your 2D Photoshop designs to life

Come Together

The secrets of realistic image compositing