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Camera Raw Just Got a Secret Photo Browser (And It Might Change How You Work)
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Camera Raw Just Got a Secret Photo Browser (And It Might Change How You Work)

I have a complicated relationship with Lightroom. Not a hostile one, just. complicated. I’ve tried to commit to it more times than I’ve tried to commit to going to the gym, and the results have been roughly the same. The catalog system, the import dance, the general feeling that I need to ask permission to edit my own photos. It’s not for me. So when I saw that Adobe’s October 2026 update quietly gave Camera Raw a feature set that starts to look a lot like a standalone photo management app, I paid attention fast.

How to Add Video Transitions in Photoshop (Yes, Photoshop)
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How to Add Video Transitions in Photoshop (Yes, Photoshop)

Most people don’t think of Photoshop as a video tool. I didn’t either, until a client handed me a simple slideshow project and I realized I had no budget for Premiere and no patience to learn it that week. Photoshop’s Timeline panel is genuinely capable of handling short video edits, and once you know where things live, it moves fast. The part that tripped me up was transitions. Not adding them — that part’s easy — but making them look right without mysterious transparency issues eating my footage.

How to Use Photoshop's Liquify Tool to Push a Great Photo Over the Edge
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How to Use Photoshop's Liquify Tool to Push a Great Photo Over the Edge

There’s a specific kind of creative frustration that comes from looking at a photo that’s almost there. The lighting is solid, the color grading is clean, the composition is tight – and yet something still feels slightly off. Not broken, just not quite finished. I’ve been in that situation more times than I want to count, usually sitting in a coffee shop somewhere, rotating the canvas and squinting at my screen like that’s somehow going to fix the problem.

How to Fill Dead Sky in Photoshop Using Nothing But the Lasso Tool
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How to Fill Dead Sky in Photoshop Using Nothing But the Lasso Tool

There’s a specific kind of outdoor photo that haunts me. Great composition, solid light, decent subject – and then a big, boring hole in the sky where the clouds just… gave up. You’ve seen it. Half the frame is moody and dramatic, and then there’s this bald patch on one side that looks like the atmosphere forgot to show up to work. For a long time my fix was either to swap the entire sky, which takes forever and has its own compositing nightmares, or to just accept the photo was what it was and move on.

How Jessica Kobeissi Colors Fashion Photos in Photoshop (And Why Her Chaos Actually Works)
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How Jessica Kobeissi Colors Fashion Photos in Photoshop (And Why Her Chaos Actually Works)

There’s a certain kind of Photoshop tutorial that makes you feel like you’ve been doing everything wrong. Not in a crushing way, but in a “oh, so there’s no secret formula and everyone is just winging it with taste” kind of way. That’s exactly the feeling I got watching Watch the full tutorial on YouTube from photographer and retoucher Jessica Kobeissi, specifically the third part of her fashion photo coloring and editing series.

Two Photoshop 2019 Features That Actually Change How You Work
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Two Photoshop 2019 Features That Actually Change How You Work

I’ve spent more hours than I’d like to admit clicking through blend modes like a slot machine, hoping something useful would land. Multiply. No. Screen. Nope. Overlay. Maybe? It’s the kind of guesswork that makes you feel like you’re wasting time, which you are. And Content-Aware Fill has always felt like a magic trick that works great in demos and falls apart the moment you actually need it. Adobe Max 2019 addressed both of those pain points in ways that are genuinely useful rather than just impressive on a keynote slide.

Ink Without the Needle: How to Realistically Add a Tattoo to Any Photo in Photoshop
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Ink Without the Needle: How to Realistically Add a Tattoo to Any Photo in Photoshop

Client work has a way of throwing curveballs. A few years back, someone asked me to mock up what a sleeve tattoo would look like on their arm before they committed to the real thing. I figured it would take twenty minutes. Two hours later I had something that looked like a temporary tattoo applied by a toddler. The skin texture was fighting the ink, the tones were all wrong, and the whole thing screamed “Photoshop disaster.

Stop Guessing at Color Pairings — Let Photoshop Do the Math
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Stop Guessing at Color Pairings — Let Photoshop Do the Math

Color theory is one of those things I understood just well enough to be dangerous for years. I knew complementary colors lived on opposite sides of the color wheel. I knew orange and blue looked punchy together. And I knew that whenever I tried to actually apply that knowledge to a real image, I’d spend twenty minutes dragging HSB sliders around, squinting at my screen, and eventually settling on something that was “close enough.

Stop Fighting Your Backgrounds: A Smarter Photoshop Trick for Messy Shots
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Stop Fighting Your Backgrounds: A Smarter Photoshop Trick for Messy Shots

I spent three days once trying to fix a background in a client’s outdoor portrait. Clone Stamp. Healing Brush. Content-Aware Fill. I cycled through every removal tool Photoshop has like I was spinning a broken roulette wheel. The result was technically fine and visually unconvincing, with those telltale smudgy patches that scream “someone was in here messing around.” There’s a better way, and I wish I’d known it sooner. In this Matt Kloskowski tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, Matt walks through how to simplify a distracting background using a technique that’s almost embarrassingly straightforward once you see it.

Lasso Tools in Photoshop: Which One to Use and When (Because You're Probably Defaulting to the Wrong One)
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Lasso Tools in Photoshop: Which One to Use and When (Because You're Probably Defaulting to the Wrong One)

Most of my early Photoshop disasters came down to using the wrong selection tool for the job. I’d reach for the regular Lasso like it owed me something, spend ten minutes wrestling with a wobbly outline, and then wonder why my composites looked like they were cut out with safety scissors. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize Photoshop gives you three distinct Lasso tools for a reason, and each one has a specific sweet spot.

Select Subject in Photoshop: The One-Click Selection Tool That Actually Delivers
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Select Subject in Photoshop: The One-Click Selection Tool That Actually Delivers

I used to charge clients by the hour for background removal. That sounds fine until you realize I was spending forty-five minutes per image painstakingly painting selections with the Quick Selection tool, cleaning up edges, swearing quietly into my cold brew. The margin on those jobs was embarrassing. So when I caught this Matt Kloskowski tutorial on Photoshop’s Select Subject tool, I felt that particular sting of “why didn’t I know this sooner.

Camera Raw's New Lens Blur Tool: What It Does, What It Can't, and When to Actually Use It
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Camera Raw's New Lens Blur Tool: What It Does, What It Can't, and When to Actually Use It

Client work has a way of teaching you lessons you didn’t ask for. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve delivered a portrait edit only to have someone come back asking why the background “doesn’t look blurry enough” or “looks fake.” Background blur is one of those things that sounds simple until you’re actually trying to pull it off cleanly in post. So when Adobe dropped a Camera Raw update during Adobe Max week in October 2023, and one of the headlining features was a new Lens Blur tool built right into Camera Raw, I paid attention.