Erin Quigley and the Go Ask Erin team are offering a free online tutorial entitled “Goo Gone – How to Eliminate Backscatter and Other Unsightly Messes in Post.” She will cover the tools in both Lightroom and Photoshop. The event will be on 19 March, at two different times to allow for time zone differences; those times being 11://00 AM PDT and 5://00 PM PDT.
Liquid Motion has announced the pre-release of their online Underwater Photo & Film Academy. The courses are available “live” now and can be downloaded from May. In addition, the company will soon be offering free tutorials via its YouTube channel.
Lightroom and Photoshop guru, Erin Quigley has added 9 free downloadable pdf tutorials to her website. These include topics like Develop module workflow, content aware and image selection for underwater contests along with hidden tools, profiles and range masks in Lightroom.
Lightroom and Photoshop guru Erin Quigley runs excellent training sessions specifically aimed at underwater photographers. In conjunction with this, she has published a series of free tutorials and these are all now available via a single landing page on her website. There is a mixture of lessons for Lightroom and Photoshop and there are techniques suitable for both beginner and advanced users.
YouTube Channel tutvid has posted 4 tutorials with over 4 hours of in-depth details about 30 techniques within Photoshop that are useful to photographers. Entitled “30 Techniques Every Photographer/Retoucher Needs to Know!” the mini course is free to view.
Adobe’s Lightroom Coffee Breaks mini tutorial series has featured an episode about “Rating Photos with Auto Advance”. If the caps lock key is on while adding star ratings, color labels or flags, the app auto advances through the images in the selected folder.
Adobe has announced a series of 60 second or less Lightroom mini tutorials highlighting key tips and techniques. Entitled the “Lightroom Coffee Break”, and being posted bi-monthly, each episode will be presented by longtime Lightroom team member Benjamin Warde.
Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers that update their copies of Photoshop to the new 2015.1 version released today will notice a significant change in how the app looks. By default, it now opens with a new start workspace. In addition, opening a new file will now open the recent files workspace. 2015.1 also offers the option of customizing the toolbar by removing tools (and their shortcuts) that are used infrequently.
Since Lightroom 6/CC’s release, Adobe has posted over 60 tutorials. These include guides for those completely new to the app, as well as orientation to the new features in the latest release. The tutorials are free to view and represent an amazing resource. Don’t forget to check out Wetpixel’s review too.
Underwater photographer and post processing guru, Erin Quigley has posted a page on her blog giving the links to all her current GoAskErin Photoshop and Lightroom tutorials. These include “classics” like her backscatter removal and puppet warp tutorials as well how to use Lightrooms radial and graduated filter tools to “reposition” your strobes and using the adjustment brush to paint in exposure, clarity and contrast.