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Stop Losing Track of Your Shots: Lightroom's Collection Sets Are the Filing System You Never Knew You Needed

If you’ve ever finished a shoot, dumped a card full of RAW files onto your hard drive, and then stared at 800 nearly identical images wondering where to even start — this one’s for you. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit. My old system was basically “make a folder with the date, panic later,” and it worked right up until the point it absolutely didn’t. What changed things for me was watching RC Concepcion walk through his Lightroom organization method in Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, part of the KelbyOne Photoshop User TV episode 279.

October 30, 2026

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Vignettes in Lightroom: Why You're Probably Using the Wrong Tool for the Job

I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time applying vignettes in Lightroom the lazy way — drag the Post Crop Vignette slider left, call it a day, move on. And honestly, for a long time it worked fine. Until it didn’t. The problem crept up on me during a client edit where the sky in the upper-left corner was blowing out, the lower-right foreground was already deep in shadow, and slapping a uniform darkening across all four corners made the whole thing look like I’d developed the photo inside a cave.

September 14, 2026

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Lightroom's Radial Filter Is Doing Way More Work Than You Think

I’ll be honest with you. For an embarrassingly long time, I used Lightroom’s Radial Filter for exactly one thing: drawing a circle and darkening the outside of it. That’s it. That was my whole relationship with the tool. I was basically using a Swiss Army knife to open envelopes. Then I stumbled onto a tutorial by landscape photographer Nigel Danson where he runs through five distinct things you can do with the Radial Filter, and I had one of those “okay I’ve been doing this wrong” moments that I usually only get from accidentally breaking something expensive.

August 5, 2026