Add a soft twilight glow across your mountain scenes using targeted color curves and a precise gradient band in Lightroom.

LightroomScott DavenportJuly 12, 2025Tutorial, Masking, AntarcticaComment

Shaping Light With Curves

Master the tone curve to shape light, enhance contrast, and bring intentional depth to your black and white photos.

Quick Tip, LightroomScott DavenportJune 24, 2025TutorialComment

Lightroom Distraction Removal - When It Works (and When It Doesn’t)

The new Distraction Removal tool in Lightroom is a nice addition and a great timesaver for a lot of images - but not all of them. I have a few tips for you to get the most out of removing people from your photos and recognizing when you’ll want to guide generative AI with your own hand.

LightroomScott DavenportJune 20, 2025TutorialComment

Lightroom’s Select Landscape Didn’t Work? Don’t Give Up!

When Lightroom's Select Landscape misses the mark, don't give up—use it as a starting point, then layer in tools like Brush, Duplicate, and Invert to take full control of your mask.

LightroomScott DavenportMay 17, 2025Tutorial, MaskingComment

Lightroom's AI Landscape Masking Is Excellent

The April 2025 release of Lightroom introduced a significant enhancement to its AI masking capabilities with the new Select Landscape feature. This tool intelligently identifies and creates separate masks for various landscape elements within a photo, such as sky, vegetation, water, mountains, natural ground, artificial ground, and architecture.

LightroomScott DavenportMay 13, 2025Tutorial, MaskingComment

Precision Edits Using Intersects In Lightroom

A masking tool “recipe” I use again and again in Lightroom is to Intersect a mask selection with a brush. Let me show you how you can take advantage of this for your photography.

LightroomScott DavenportNovember 5, 2024Tutorial, Masking Comments

Straighten Wonky Angles Like A Pro

The Transform tool in Lightroom has the controls to correct lines in your photos and achieve professional-looking results.

LightroomScott DavenportJuly 30, 2024TutorialComment

Enhance Your Photos with Selective Detail

Boost the quality of your images with selective detail. Draw your viewer’s eye to the important subjects and elements in your photo.

LightroomScott DavenportJuly 9, 2024TutorialComment

Black & White Refinements With The Color Mixer

Lightroom’s Color Mixer is powerful. And… for certain black & white conversions, you can use its power. The Color Mixer gives you another level of control to refine your monochrome photos.

LightroomScott DavenportJuly 2, 2024Tutorial, Black & White Comments