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Photography as artistic expressionism. If you've an eye that favours the unusual, out of place, and/or abandoned, this may be what you're looking for
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1d •
Add a new capture date AND a new PS update
How do you fix a bad capture date in LRC and some new features in Photoshop.
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NO SOUND on this video Joe ... I just checked on a few of the other videos in the classroom and the sound is fine ,,,
1 like • 24h
The video is fine ... only sound is the issue
Mar 30 •
What should be the introduction?
Here's something on my mind a lot recently, if someone was going to introduce you to lightroom classic all over again - from the beginning - what should be in that initial introduction? What are the most important topics, the ones that cannot wait? I always think proper importing should be among them (that's where a lot of issues come into play later). But what else?
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TU 28 APR 2026 I'm sure that is true. However, I was thinking more about the differences with respect to actual editing practices for which each may be chosen, and those differences distinguished, i.e., destructive vs non-destructive and all the other differences on down the line which may be not so obvious to new users. For myself, I was using PS long before LR ever took its first breath, and didn't for the life of me at first understand the purpose for which LR was introduced. And ... until LR was actually released, I had never heard any rumors or pre-release information about it, and my very first experience of it was, why ... what's the point? The catalog was a completely separate bit of knowledge with which I became familiar only later ... and rather slowly. Shortly thereafter, I fell completely away from the practice of photography at any level for a number of years for a bunch of "life went in another direction" reasons. Which is the reason I am now here kind of brushing up ...
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@Joe Klocek TH 30 APR 2026: So Joe ... since you mentioned it, what IS your day job allowing you the opportunity to consult on LR and I presume likewise, PS issues?
Mar 30 •
Live portrait edit and lesson
In this edit we create a white background and we remove a really annoying light stand in Photoshop. The white background is a really fun technique. • Create a solid color adjustment layer • Add a mask for only the background and floor and make this a group. • Change the blend mode the screen (which brightens) • Create mask for the solid color adjustment layer. Then add a mask with a linear gradient which applies more to the wall than the floor, which creates a much more realistic floor in the scene. This edit uses a concept called "double masking" a lot. Double masking is where we have two masks and the edits only apply where the two intersect. It happens when we have a group with a mask and a layer (or another group) which also has a mask. Very useful in your Photoshop workflow.
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Informative for process. The flash reflection on her forehead needs minimized or eliminated IMO. Looks harsh, and where my eye went straight to first.
4d •
Welcome Jay!
Our new community has a new member. Welcome Jay! What kind of shooting do you do? What's your preferred editing software?
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TU 28 APR 2026 Good Morning. Primarily I use LR & PS. Seeking to up my PS skillset. Desirous of compositing my original images using layers and filters/masks. Pretty good w/LR, and looking to improve there as well. I use the remove tool and denoise within PS & LR and am OK with TOPAZ for denoise and upscale, but other than that I stay away from AI stuff like Banana, ChatGPT and/or whatever and/or any other image generating stuff. Recently, I have been experimenting with 3rd party textures such as scratch, dent, concrete and stuccos blended into some of my images. I've also been toying with creating the illusion of glass-plate, pinhole, cyanotype, platinum, gum bichromate, and collodion style effects via YouTube videos, with platinum and collodion being my favourites. This is the result of being severely influenced by the work of Sally Mann, Leonard Misonne, Eugene Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier, and many others from the early days. Not so much with respect to subject matter, but the effect of such development practices upon the finished print. I am fascinated by soft focus & blur and more recently going to the other side of the standard Expose to the Right regimen and instead employing the EV on my CANON 5D and intentionally stopping down to enhance & honor the shadow side of my images. I use a couple of tools that assist with that effort; One being a fellow photog, Gavin Seim for his PS actions & a few of his presets. Also Greg Benz for his Luminosity Masking software Lumenzia and Web Sharp Pro for printing. I suppose for now ... that oughta' cover as an introduction. Looking forward to whatever there may be here ... Jay
4d •
Anyone want to add an editing hang out?
I could add an evening editing hangout Monday or Thursday this week, if it would help folks. Any takers?
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Yes
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@jay-sigal-4531
Photographer. Home Remodeler. Thinker. Worker. Healthy & fit 75 YO male. Viet Nam vet - U.S. Navy Seabees. Mostly self-employed from '82 thru 2010.
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