Photo Eraser Tips

Picture this: You finally get that awesome angle, the perfect selfie. You can't wait to post it on your Instagram, except there's one problem — it looks a little flat and the colors just seem off. Maybe it's the lights? Or maybe your new smartphone camera isn't as good as you thought? How are your friends getting those beautiful photos they've been posting on social media? The answer is simple: editing. Unless you've got perfect lighting conditions, your iPhone or Android phone likely won't take the shot you envisioned — especially if you're using the front-facing camera. But you can achieve a professional-looking photo by making a few simple lighting adjustments with Adobe Photoshop Express, available on  iOS  and  Android . Take a Photo with Decent Lighting The lighting for your selfie doesn't have to be perfect, just lit well enough to capture all of your facial features. Unless you're snapping the image with zero artificial or natu...

When it comes to photography and landscape photography in particular, how much editing is too much? Is there such a thing as processing an image too much? This is the topic in photographer Attilio Ruffo's latest video. For landscape photographers, it's not unusual to receive a question that goes something like this, "how much did you edit this image?" Sometimes it's a simple curiosity, other times it's the beginning of an interaction that ultimately ends with someone thinking that your image is unrealistic and perhaps bad because of it. For Ruffo, this annoys him because he doesn't think that it really matters and is missing the point of landscape photography. How much you edit an image is a very personal topic. It's an artistic decision and therefore, it's a subjective one informed by your own ideas and experiences. "The only thing that matters to me is that the result is pleasing my eyes," Ruffo says in the video below, expressing ...

Adobe's Lightroom for iPhone and iPad Lightroom CC excels as an image organizer and editor -- and can even stand on its own. (Credit: Jeff Carlson) Since the release of the iPad nearly a decade ago, photographers have wondered if a tablet could replace a portable PC. Even today's thin and light laptops are too much for some people who already deal with bags stuffed with gear. The answer has always been, "Yes, but...," accompanied by a list of limitations and workarounds, namely in software. Not only do you need apps that can edit photos -- of which there are many capable ones -- you need a workflow that doesn't involve a lot more effort on your part. If you're invested in the Adobe ecosystem, you probably use Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic CC on the desktop. The mobile component is Lightroom CC (download for  iOS  and  Android ), which ties into Adobe's Creative Cloud service to synchronize your photos and the edits you make to them. Lightroom CC,...