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Editing Toolbox: Removing Something from Behind the Subject editing toolbox free editing tutorials Mar 24, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

Have you ever shot the PERFECT image, only to realise there is something really distracting RIGHT behind the subject?...

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Editing Toolbox - Workflow Hack: How to Use Lightroom's Flags, Ratings and Colour Labels editing toolbox free editing tutorials Mar 17, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Having a consistent process for your workflow in Lightroom is crucial if you want to be able to easily find and access...

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Editing Toolbox - Workflow Hack: Creating a Custom Filename Template in Lightroom editing toolbox free editing tutorials Mar 10, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

Let's talk filenames. Not the most glamorous topic, but if you want to save time on workflow and file management so you...

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Editing Toolbox: Why Taking Photos Without Dogs Can Save your Dog Photos editing toolbox free editing tutorials Mar 03, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

If you're anything like me, you'll have had many images where the dog is looking perfect, but you just can't get a...

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Editing Toolbox: Removing a Red Colour Cast from the Shadows in Lightroom editing toolbox free editing tutorials Feb 27, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

Have you ever come across a really stubborn red colour cast in the shadows while editing your pet photos? It can happen...

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Editing Toolbox: Locating Lost Files & Folders in Lightroom editing toolbox free editing tutorials Feb 17, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Have you ever lost files and folders in your Lightroom catalogue and been frustrated by the question marks and...

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Edit My Photo June 2022 - Jannie edit my photo free editing tutorials Feb 15, 2023

With Craig Turner-Bullock

Jannie Lou was the winner of the May 2022 Edit My Photo challenge in the Unleashed Education community.

As the winner of...

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Editing Toolbox: Setting White Balance with One Click in Lightroom editing toolbox free editing tutorials Feb 10, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

Setting correct white balance is one of those editing sticking points that I see so many pet photographers - well -...

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Editing Toolbox: Rescuing Blurry Images with Topaz editing toolbox free editing tutorials Feb 03, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

We've all taken images that are a little less sharp that we'd like. Usually, they're action shots and usually, they're...

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Editing Toolbox: The Ins and Outs of Zooming editing toolbox free editing tutorials Jan 27, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

"Hands up if you have pixel peeping tendencies... Well this one is for you!

Knowing how to zoom in and how far is a...

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Editing Toolbox: Improving the Look of Blown-out Bokeh in Backlit Shots editing toolbox free editing tutorials Jan 20, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

Prevention is always better than cure, so minimising areas of blown-out bokeh in the background of backlit shots while...

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Editing Toolbox: Setting a Default Camera Profile on Import in Lightroom editing toolbox free editing tutorials Jan 13, 2023

By Charlotte Reeves

If you find yourself switching to a preferred Camera Profile every time you edit a RAW file in Lightroom, buckle up...

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Edit My Photo May 2022 - Fernanda edit my photo free editing tutorials Jan 11, 2023

With Charlotte Reeves

Fernanda was the winner of the April 2022 Edit My Photo challenge in the Unleashed Education community.

As the winner of the...

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Editing Toolbox: Managing and Merging Lightroom Catalogues editing toolbox free editing tutorials Jan 06, 2023

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Do you have a system for your Lightroom Catalogue? Are you sick of switching catalogues when searching for images?

In...

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Editing Toolbox: Enlarging Your Images in Photoshop to Print BIG editing toolbox free editing tutorials Dec 30, 2022

By Charlotte Reeves

Are you at the stage in your pet photography journey where you are thinking about printing your work? And I'm not talking...

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Editing Toolbox: What Are XMP Files & Why Might They Be Useful? editing toolbox free editing tutorials Dec 23, 2022

By Craig Turner-Bullock

If you use Adobe Camera RAW or similar editing software, you'll probably be familiar with XMP, or 'sidecar' files....

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Editing Toolbox: Using Reference Mode in Lightroom to Perfectly Match Edits editing toolbox free editing tutorials Dec 16, 2022

By Charlotte Reeves

Do you usually copy and paste your Lightroom edits between images to save time? Me too! It works so well. But what happens...

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Editing Toolbox: How To Batch Process Your Christmas Mini Sessions editing toolbox free editing tutorials Dec 09, 2022

By Craig Turner-Bullock

It's that festive time of year and if you love Christmas as much as I do, you're probably doing Christmas mini...

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Editing Toolbox: Awesome Subject Selection with One Setting editing toolbox free editing tutorials Dec 02, 2022

By Charlotte Reeves

Do you ever find yourself wishing that you could click one button in Photoshop and quickly have a very usable, very...

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Editing Toolbox: The Best Way to Use Topaz for Sharpening and Noise Reduction editing toolbox free editing tutorials Nov 25, 2022

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Sharpening and noise reduction are part of our everyday workflow as photographers.

I've found that by far the best solution...

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Editing Toolbox: Super Quick Object Selection and Removal in Photoshop editing toolbox free editing tutorials Nov 18, 2022

By Charlotte Reeves

Want to spend more time playing with your dogs, and less time editing photos? I'm all about constantly improving, tweaking, and...

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Editing Toolbox: How to Make Multiple Dogs Eyes Sparkle editing toolbox free editing tutorials Nov 11, 2022

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Adding a bit of sparkle to the eyes is a fairly common practice in Pet Photography. But what do you do to images with...

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Editing Toolbox: Unleashing Lightroom 12.0 for Pet Photographers editing toolbox free editing tutorials Nov 04, 2022

By Charlotte Reeves

Every time a big new Adobe update is released, people usually fall into two categories. Those who are terrified of upgrading...

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Editing Toolbox: How to Balance Shadows with Highlights editing toolbox free editing tutorials Oct 21, 2022

By Craig Turner-Bullock

Have you ever found shadows in an image really distracting?

In this video, I'm working on an image I took on the island of...

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