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Photoshop's versatile Eyedropper tool enables you to make several significant enhancements to nature, landscape, and other types of images, and today's tutorial from the popular PHLEARN YouTube channel explains how they work. There's also an interesting trick that many of you will find surprising.

If you've never taken a deep dive into the menu, you may be surprised that the camera offers a choice of three Shutter modes; namely, Mechanical, Electronic, and Elect. 1^st-Curtain. I's important to understand when to select one mode over another, and that's what you'll in this quick explainer from the Stormcabbirds YouTube channel.

We often discuss the virtues of patience when shooting in the field, and why it's advisable not to move from one location to the next until you've exhausted all the possibilities of your first stop. And this sometimes means capturing a nice shot, followed by another and another as your exploration continues.

The Shutter Priority mode, often labeled "S" or "TV" on your exposure dial, provides you with full control over this key setting while the camera automatically adjusts aperture to arrive at accurate light. Today's video below from the Hamed Photography YouTube channel adds an interesting twist that makes this approach to exposure even more useful than you thought.

Some styles of photography cry out for specific types of lenses (although we're strong proponents of experimenting beyond common conventions). Wide focal lengths, for example, are the primary choice of landscape shooters, while very few experienced wildlife photographers would venture out in the field without a long telephoto of 400mm or more.

Last month we brought you an interesting Lightroom tutorial demonstrating a unique method for using color curves adjustments to embellish mediocre landscape photographs with a beautiful soft dreamy twilight glow. This follow-up video provides an equally powerful tone curves trick that you'll definitely want to try.

Today's enlightening tutorial is for those of you who've captured what you thought would be a killer shot only to discover that something is missing and you're uncertain why. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you may realize that it's poor color trying to get your intention.