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How to Apply Split Toning in Photoshop

There are a lot of different ways to enhance the colors of your landscape and nature images in Photoshop or Lightroom, and applying split toning is one of them. In this video from our friends at...

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How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

Dodging and burning can help to improve your landscape photos by selectively darkening and lightening specific areas of the photo. There are a few different ways that you can dodge and burn in...

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How to Retouch Areas of Gradient Skies in Photoshop

There will be situations when you need or want to remove a particular object from a photo, and Photoshop’s tools generally make it pretty easy to do so. However, when the object is in front of a...

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New Features in Lightroom 6: HDR Merge and Panorama Merge

Lightroom 6 (also known as Lightroom CC) was released a few weeks ago and among the most significant and popular new features, especially for landscape and nature photographers, are the HDR merge and...

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Remove Unwanted Objects in Photoshop with Cloning & Healing

It’s not uncommon to have objects in your landscape photos that you would like to remove. It could be a person, a car, an ugly trash can, litter, telephone poles and power lines, or just about any...

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How to Use Lightroom’s Radial Filter to Enhance Your Photos

While it does not provide as many options for advanced selections and photo manipulations as Photoshop, Lightroom has a number of tools that allow you to do the majority of your post processing without...

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How to Color Grade Landscape Photos in Lightroom

Many times it is the small tweaks and subtle enhancements in post processing that can take your landscape and nature photos from good to great. In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how you can use...

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How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop

With many landscape and nature photos you may want to replace the sky in order to get a more striking photo. In this video Simon Plant shows an easy way to blend a new sky without getting into...

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How to Manually Blend and Stitch Panoramic Photos

One effective way to show off any amazing landscape is to create a panoramic image by combining multiple images and “stitching” them together. While several options for automatically stitching...

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Adding Selective Image Weight to Landscape Photographs in Lightroom

In this video Simon Plant shows how to use selective adjustments in Lightroom to adjust the image weight and direct the viewer’s attention within the photo. In the video you will learn: How to use...

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How to Give Your Photos Glorious Grain Effects in Lightroom

In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how to create beautiful grain effects in Lightroom. This technique is especially useful for photos that will be printed. Simon shows how to use grain in...

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How to Use Photoshop to Replace a Color in Your Photos

In this video Simon Plant demonstrates how you can easily use Photoshop to replace a color in a photo to help control the focal point that draws the viewer’s eye. You can use this technique to draw...

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How to Use the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom to Touch Up Your Photos

Knowing how to effectively use the tools in Lightroom’s Develop Module can help you to take your photos from good to great. One of the more overlooked tools in Lightroom is the spot removal tool....

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How to Use Masks in Photoshop to Improve Your Landscape Photos

Masks are a powerful tool for Photoshop users, but if you don’t have much experience with masks you may be a little confused about how they work and what they can allow you to accomplish. In this...

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How to Use Lightroom’s HSL Sliders to Improve Your Landscape Photos

Lightroom makes it possible for you to improve and enhance your photos in many different ways. If you’re not familiar with Lightroom’s HSL sliders or what they can do for your photos, this video will...

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How to Effectively Replace a Sky Using Photoshop

In this video Simon plant demonstrates and old school technique for sky replacement in Photoshop. There are a few different techniques you can use for replacing skies, and the technique that will work...

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How to Give Your Black & White Photos Some Attitude Using Lightroom

Creating effective black & white images involves more than simply converting a color photo to black & white. In this video Simon Plant walks us through several different options that you can...

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How to Remove Distractions with Photoshop’s Paint Brush

It’s not uncommon that your photos may have some elements that distractions. Photoshop’s clone stamp tool is extremely helpful for removing these distractions and improving your photos, but in some...

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How to Creatively Blur Your Photos in Photoshop

In this video Simon Plant demonstrates a technique that combines two different types of blur in Photoshop to get more desirable results. The combination of tilt shift blur and field blur allow Simon...

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How to Create Realistic Mist and Fog in Photoshop

One great way to get better results with your landscape and nature photos is to think about the mood that you want to create. If you want to enhance the mood of a photo, one great option is to add a...

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