Jeff Carlson

Jeff Carlson

About

Author and photographer Jeff Carlson is the author of the books Adobe Lightroom: a Course and Compendium, Take Control of Your Digital Photos, and Take Control of Your Digital Storage, among many other books and articles. He writes The Smarter Image newsletter that covers how AI/ML technologies are fundamentally changing photography, and co-hosts the podcast PhotoActive.

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How to Use AI Features for Quicker Photo Editing

Learn the to take advantage of machine learning (AI) when editing photos in Photoshop and InDesign.

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Take Your Shot in Lightroom

With a handle on the fundamentals of Lightroom—in its multiple forms—you can work with your photos like the pros do.

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How to Work with People in Lightroom

Working with people can have its own challenges as a photographer, so it’s a relief that dealing with them in Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic is much easier. People recognition is a feature that’s ideal for handing off to software. Instead of asking you to manually assign keywords to tag people in your photos, Lightroom […]

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The Right Way to Assign Metadata to Photos in Lightroom

We all know it’s helpful to assign metadata to photos in Lightroom, but it always seems like a chore. Why apply keywords and captions when you can jump right into the fun part, editing? The answer, of course, crops up much later when we can’t find the images we need, or we have no information […]

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Lightroom CC for Designers

If you’re a designer, you’d be forgiven if you responded to Adobe’s announcement of the new Lightroom CC desktop application with a shrug. Maybe photo processing happens upstream from you, or perhaps you already know Photoshop inside and out and don’t think you need Lightroom. Even so, I think there’s a case to be made […]

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The Creative Zone: Taking Your Photography to the Next Level

Excerpted from Canon EOS M: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Jeff Carlson. Copyright © 2013. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF as a PDF that retains the full design of the printed book. […]

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Manage iPhone Photos

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Your iPhone Apps, a $10 electronic book available for 30% off specially for CreativePro.com readers (dropping the price to only $7). The 122-page ebook from TidBITS Publishing Inc. teaches iPhone app basics and offers numerous clever tips based on author Jeff Carlson’s real-world […]

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Web How-To: Going Live with GoLive

Excerpted from “Real World GoLive 6” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Picking a program in any field, whether it’s Web publishing, illustration, page layout, or even accounting is akin to joining a political party. People have strong feelings about products that often can’t […]

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