Lightroom editing, color grading & visual storytelling

Video Tutorials

Adobe Finally Gave Lightroom an AI Eraser That's Actually Worth Using

Every Lightroom user has a version of the same story. You spend twenty minutes getting a raw file exactly right, the tones are balanced, the colors are singing, and then you notice the power line cutting across the sky. Or the tourist walking through the background. Or the trash can that somehow ended up in the perfect composition. And just like that, you’re exporting to Photoshop, doing the thing, exporting back, and now you’ve got a TIFF sitting next to your raw file like a receipt you didn’t want.

September 13, 2026

Video Tutorials

I Switched to a Wacom Tablet for Lightroom Editing and I'm Not Going Back

I’ve been editing photos in Lightroom long enough to have strong opinions about things most people don’t notice, like the exact amount of friction a scroll wheel should have, or why the brush tool with a mouse feels like trying to paint with a bar of soap. For years I told myself the mouse was fine. It’s fine. Everyone uses a mouse. Then I watched Thomas Heaton pick up a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet for the first time and start editing like he’d been born with a stylus in his hand, and I felt that specific kind of creative jealousy that means you need to change something.

September 13, 2026

Video Tutorials

Why Your Lightroom Photos Look Banded and Funky (And How to Fix It)

I’ve been editing photos in Lightroom long enough to know that the application has a gift for making you doubt yourself at exactly the wrong moment. You’re culling a shoot, you land on a landscape with a gorgeous gradient sky, and suddenly the sky looks like a television losing signal - horizontal lines cutting through what should be smooth, clean tones. Your stomach drops. You start mentally calculating whether your camera sensor is dying or your monitor is going bad.

September 13, 2026

Workflow & Efficiency

How to Edit 500 Photos in the Time It Usually Takes You to Edit 20

Last spring I agreed to cover a friend’s wedding as a favor. Not as the photographer, just as a backup shooter with a mirrorless camera and a wide-angle lens. Three hours later I had 600 raw files, a headache, and a very clear reminder of why I stopped shooting events. The editing wasn’t the problem. The volume was. And if you’ve ever come home from a shoot, opened Lightroom, and felt your stomach drop at the number in the bottom corner of your catalog, you know exactly what I mean.

September 13, 2026

Video Tutorials

Warm It Up: A Photoshop Layer-by-Layer Guide to Soft, Golden Fashion Tones

There’s a specific problem I run into more than I’d like to admit. I shoot a portrait session on an overcast Nashville afternoon, pull the RAW files into Photoshop, and the whole thing looks like a dental office waiting room. Technically correct. Emotionally inert. The image needs warmth, not just a temperature slider drag, but a layered, intentional warmth that reads as a creative choice rather than a fix. That’s exactly the territory Jessica Kobeissi covers in her tutorial on creating a warm-toned fashion photo.

September 12, 2026

Video Tutorials

Bring Portraits to Life in Lightroom: Enhancing Eyes and Hair with the Adjustment Brush

There’s a specific kind of portrait that haunts you. The light was perfect, the subject was stunning, and then you open the file and realize the hair has collapsed into a muddy shadow and the eyes look flat. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. For a long time my reflex was to jump straight into Photoshop and start reaching for luminosity masks. It worked, but it was slow, and half the time I was overcomplicating something that didn’t need to be complicated.

September 12, 2026