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This insightful tutorial from Adorama TV explains how easy it is to compensate for different straight lines in a photo that appear crooked and simply don’t line up. It’s a common problem indoors or out, and the solutions you’ll learn in the video below are both effective and super simple to achieve. Instructor David Bergman…

Do your wildlife and nature photos lack balance, emotion, or impact? If so, a likely culprit is poor composition, and this problem starts with inappropriate cropping. Today’s insightful tutorial from pro Ejaz Khan provides four simple solutions that will help you create compelling images that feel alive, elegant, and unforgettable. Khan is a notable wildlife…

Birds are a unique subset of wildlife subjects because you don’t have to travel far to capture compelling images. This accessible genre can be pursued at a nearby park, local nature reserve, or even in the comfort of your own backyard. And interesting species change throughout the year. Despite these conveniences, some photographers compromise their…

Lightroom boasts a wide array of transformational features for adjusting exposure, perfecting colors, and enhancing other attributes of unimpressive photos. Today’s quick tutorial from photographer James Feaver explains why the oft-ignored Point Color tool is “incredibly” powerful, and how you can begin using now regardless of your post-processing experience. In barely eight minutes James provides…

Today’s interesting tutorial from the Lightroom-only Color & Editing Mastery channel encourages you to replace the conventional approach of editing with Curves, with a less- familiar method of employing Lightroom’s Curves panel that many pros prefer. And you can grab a FREE selection of time-saving presets in the description beath the video. Instructor Maarten Schrader…

Today’s eye-opening tutorial is for those of you who struggle with flat, dull outdoor photos—even in beautiful locations and good light. Instructor Serge Ramelli demonstrates a beginner-friendly shooting and editing workflow that’s guaranteed to take your landscape imagery to the next level. Ramelli is a globally-popular French-born photographer who’s portfolio contains spectacular landscape and cityscape…

Adobe has enhanced Lightroom’s landscape masking capabilities in the most-recent update, and there’s a new-and-improved way to achieve precision results. Pro Austin James Jackson brings you up to speed on these important developments in the thorough tutorial below. Jackson is highly esteemed landscape photographer, specializing in imagery of the western U.S. He also a popular…

If you overlook Curves when editing your images you’re missing out on one of Lightroom’s most powerful tools that can easily be mastered, even by inexperienced users. Today’s beginners guide from the Adobe Lightroom YouTube channel explains how to get started today. The goal of Instructor Kenneth Hines Jr. is to help you spend less…