20120822 Custom BW mix with split tone

Goodbye newspaper gray, blah looking black and white conversions!  Learn how to QUICKLY and EASILY  convert your images to a pretty decent black and white mix, tweak the color channels for better contrast and skin tones, tweak your black levels or contrast, and then finally- add a custom split tone to warm it all up (works well for homes with earth tone decor as I discuss in the video).

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20120822 Local Adjustment Brush Auto Mask Tip

Ever wanted a background to "pop" but you didn't want to spend too much time carefully brushing or masking around your subjects?  Learn how to brush saturation and more with the local adjustment brush tool using the auto mask feature in Lightroom.  This tip can go all way back to LR2 when the local adjustment brush was introduced.  Sorry LR1 users!  You are way overdue for an upgrade so this tip won't work for you!

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20120728-BLRT-Maximize creative shots with multiple crops

Short on time during the family/creatives part of the day?  Maximize your images by getting good compression and shooting loose ON SITE and then pulling extra crops to multiply what you were able to capture once you get into your editing software.  Learn how in this episode of the Best Lightroom Training podcast.  And yeah, that straight out of camera did kinda stink.  I'm not afraid to say so.  I was rushed and just tried to not blow out the dress for editing later.  These things happen.  Any photographer that tells you that they nail EVERYTHING straight out of camera is either a liar or a superhero.  

OK, no time to chit chat.  I have more editing work to do from this week.  Here's the video: