Ron Leach

Photoshop's Selective Color tool represents a powerful non-destructive means of employing an adjustment layer to correct and enhance specific colors in an image. There are many practical applications like creating outdoor photos with a "cinematic" look or fixing skin tones in portraits by eliminating unwanted red and magenta tones.

Cluttered backgrounds are often unavoidable when shooting in the field, and this distraction will easily deemphasize a key subject in wildlife shots, nature photos, or even landscape images with an element that deserves to really stand out. Today's tutorial featuring German expert Christian Mohrle demonstrates how to save the day with the thoughtful use of Lightroom's easy-to-apply Lens Blur tool.

Experienced photographers understand the many benefits of shooting in Raw, but you may be in for a surprise—especially if the images you capture don't always look quite as good as expected. That's because, according to conventional wisdom, Jpeg settings aren't relevant when using the Raw file format.

Sometimes our nature and landscape photos fall shot of the beauty we witnessed through the viewfinder, either because our camera settings were incorrect or we used the wrong approach during post processing. The video below from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel addresses the latter concern with a straightforward color-grading technique that anyone can master in minutes.