If I sat down and really thought about it, I bet I could remember every camera I’ve ever had—and there have been a lot of them! From my grandpa’s Kodak Brownie all the way to an Olympus DSLR, with a parade of Nikons, Canons, Polaroids, and a Pentax or two in between. The output of all that hardware— countless thousands of images—fills bins in my attic, hard drives in my office, and gigabytes in the cloud. Yet I still consider myself a neophyte when it comes to photography. I love “seeing” an image, composing it, and capturing it. But then comes the part that I’ve never been able to do consistently and efficiently: the organizing, processing, and retouching that would really take my images to the next level. That’s why I’m so excited about this month’s feature article. In it, Jeff Carlson breaks down the entire Lightroom ecosystem of apps and guides us through the process of choosing the right app, tool, and technique for making the most of our images.

Next up, Ari Weinstein walks you through the various brush types and options in Illustrator. When you get a handle on them, you’ll be able to apply any kind of look you want in your artwork.

Trish Witkowski shares a bunch of creative brochure ideas for every client and budget.

Julie Shaffer demonstrates an InDesign workflow for formatting unstyled text from Word that can save you huge amounts of time, money, and effort in the long (and even not-so-long) run.

Conrad Chavez offers his thoughts on what’s new in Creative Cloud 2022, and why Adobe is putting most of their effort these days into collaborative features and services.

Jamie McKee reviews InPreflightPro 3, a powerful macOS-based solution for checking and packaging InDesign files.

We also have a fresh crop of articles curated from CreativePro.com, on colorizing images in Photoshop with neural filters, making a Ken Burns effect in InDesign, animating PowerPoint slides, and finding high-quality free fonts.

Enjoy!