Creating Multiple Versions of Different Edits
Creating Multiple Versions of Photo Edits | Adobe Lightroom Tutorial With the release of Adobe Lightroom 4.0 in October 2020 Adobe updated a feature they titled Versions from the 3.3 release with Auto Versions. Versions allows photographers and editors to quickly preview multiple variations of edits across the same photo. Creating Versions as well as working with Auto Versions is simple and the following 7 steps contains all the information needed to use the feature efficiently. The Problem Before, if you closed out of the program Lightroom would not create [...]
Why Create Mockups? The Importance of Mockups
Why Create Mockups? The Importance of Mockups You may ask yourself, why create mockups? Imagine this scenario as it has happened to many designers, including myself. You labor over a series of designs for hours on end. Tooling and whittling away the design to perfection. You send the client the design, and they don’t see your vision and in turn hate it. Now they may hate it for a number of other reasons, however odds are good they never saw your full vision. That leads me to the not so shocking conclusion that mockups are just [...]
What are the Basic Color Schemes: An Overview
What are the Basic Color Schemes: An Overview Color Schemes are an important part of visual design. In our third part of our series on Color Theory we will cover the basic color schemes. This is more a general overview than a deep dive into the various iterations and their histories as understanding and experimentation are key components to creativity. These aren’t hard and fast rules but rather different recipes for baking a cake. Check out part one or part two if you missed those articles. Monochromatic A monochromatic color [...]
Using the Color Grading Panel Within Adobe Lightroom
Color Grading Panel | Adobe Lightroom Tutorial With the release of Adobe Lightroom 4.0 in October 2020 Adobe released a feature they titled Color Grading. The new tool allows for photographers to have deeper control over the shadows, midtones, and highlights of their images. Featuring a three color wheel design similar to that of Adobe Premiere’s Lumetri Color Wheels. Those familiar with these color wheels should have no issue grading photos within Lightroom. Step One: Open the Photo Open a photo within Lightroom desktop and click the Edit icon in [...]
What is Adobe Color?
What is Adobe Color? | Fundamentals of Design Color is one of the main elements of design which we have begun to cover in depth here. An often forgotten site that is a helpful tool for many designers is known as Adobe Color. So what does Adobe Color do? Well, Adobe Color offers both a color converter and color scheme creator that syncs with the Adobe Creative Cloud. Creating a Color Scheme One of the most important features of Adobe Color is the ability to create a color scheme in [...]
