This timesaving tutorial will enable you to apply any of your edits, like AI Denoise, to dozens, hundreds or even thousands of similar images. It turns out that there are three straightforward ways to quickly get the job done using the recent June update to Adobe’s Lightroom ecosystem.

This trio of techniques work with Lightroom and Lightroom Classic when editing on the desktop. Instructor Terry Lee White notes that two of the methods work the same in either application, while one is specific to Lightroom Classic, and he begins with the latter.

Terry pulls up a series of photos that need to be denoised. He selects his primary image, and three others that he wants to be denoised like the first without repeating the steps. There’s a quick keyboard shortcut for selecting thumbnails that don’t appear next to one another on the screen.

The Denoise tool was recently added to Lightroom’s regular Develop stack, so if you head down to the Detail panel you’ll notice the new Denoise checkbox. You’ll learn why it’s essential to choose the Auto Sync option, rather than the default Sync setting before proceeding further. This way, Lightroom will apply all of your edits across as many files as you have selected.

Terry notes that he always leaves Auto Sync turned on because “I can’t think of a reason to turn it off.” Then simply click Denoise and Lightroom Classic processes and syncs your images accordingly and displays a new progress bar on the screen. When the process is complete all four images have been denoised after the initial single click.

Another new feature enables you to refine the amount of adjustment after the fact without generating a whole new DNG file in the Develop module. It’s a pretty slick trick indeed. Terry moves to his other two methods that work equally well in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, and these are just as easy and effective as the technique described above.

One approach involves copy and paste settings, while the other is creating a preset. All three techniques will save you serious time when editing multiple images—whether you’re using tools like AI Denoise, Adaptive masking, or a variety of tonal adjustments.

Terry’s popular YouTube channel boasts a wide variety of other helpful how-to videos that will quickly elevate you skills.

We also encourage you to watch the earlier tutorial we featured with another post-processing instructor who demonstrates how to use an oft-ignored Adobe profile that will rescue difficult-to-edit nature and landscape photographs.

Images captured in silhouette convey a super dramatic look that’s impossible to ignore, whether you’re shooting portraits, landscapes, nature subjects and more. Today’s quick video provides a step-by-step breakdown from start to finish so that you can get started today.

Instructor Steve Selman is an accomplished pro who specializes in editorial, fine art, and fashion photography. He’s been employing eye-popping silhouettes in his craft for over a decade, and says, “today I want to crack the door on how I create them.”

Selman explains the concept like this: “I understand it by exposing a photo with a lighting source that is greater in the background of a scene than in the foreground.” Your source of illumination can be the sun or the moon when shooting in the field, or a simple indoor lighting setup that you can mimic at home.

In other words, it’s all about backlighting your subject, and Selman begins by unrolling a white seamless and then using a light on either side of this background, both pointing inwards and slightly down, to make this plain background really bright. You’ll see the type of gear he suggests.

Selman includes recommendations for camera settings, depending upon prevailing light and the intensity of your source of illumination. Once you’re all set up it’s time to concentrate on the subject, and this is where your sense of artistry comes into play. Selman puts it like this: “I like to achieve what I call “rim light” on the subject which is the refractive light emanating from the background on the perimeter of my subject.”

He also illustrates a few key considerations for composition and posing, one of which is to note how a subject creates negative spaces within their body. “What I mean are spaces between arms, neck, legs, and other parts of their body.”

Camera-to-backdrop distance is another key consideration. Selman explains that, “The closer the subject is to the light plane the more light will emanate onto the subject.” Conversely, “the further forward the subject is from the background the more contasty and darker the subject will be.”

Selman provides a few more important tips and techniques for creating what he calls “reveal and conceal.” Once you’re done watching pay a visit to his very interesting YouTube channel.

We also recommend watching the earlier tutorial we featured with a notable British pro who explains how to use Exposure (EV) compensation to control highlights and shadows for perfectly balanced landscape and nature photographs every time.

With two major rivers, two Roman theatres and an arena, and 2,000 years of urban architecture listed by UNESCO, Lyon also has two famous brothers to thank for putting the city at the forefront of modern entertainment. Gillian Thornton picks five of her favourite things to do in the heart of the Rhône Valley.

Enjoy the magic of the movies

Lumiere Museum

Think cinema was born in Hollywood? Wrong. The world’s first moving pictures were shot in Lyon, 130 years ago, by Auguste and Louis Lumière. The eldest of six children born to painter and photographer Antoine Lumière, the brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first machine capable of recording moving pictures. Today, their former home is a fascinating museum to the early days of cinema, featuring archive film from around the world, a wealth of artefacts, and hands-on exhibits.

Lumiere family home

In an age when we can watch movies on a mobile phone, I am unexpectedly humbled to stand on the spot where the brothers placed the camera for that pioneering sequence of workers leaving the Lumière factory. This mini-movie lasted just 45 seconds but launched a global industry. The old factory is now the Hangar cinema, screening international movies and hub of the prestigious Lumière Festival every October.

Herbie, The Love Bug

Movie buffs can also enjoy more than 1000 original movie props from around the world at the Museum of Cinema and Miniatures in the atmospheric surroundings of a Renaissance building in Vieux Lyon, the Old Town. Watch out for Herbie, The Love Bug; Harry Potter’s glasses; and some seriously gory horror movie props.

Walk through 2000 years of urban architecture

Lyon from Fourviere Hill

The beautiful Renaissance buildings are just one element of the urban architecture that earned UNESCO World Heritage status for the city, continuously developed across 2000 years. For a panoramic view, stand on the hilltop terrace beside the 19th century basilica at Fourvière.

I love the way you pass seamlessly from one era to another as you walk through this foot-friendly city. Tread on Roman flagstones at the twin Roman theatres in Fourvière; explore the narrow streets and hidden passages – traboules – of the Old Town; and stroll amongst the elegant 18th century townhouses and squares of the Presqu’Ile, the peninsula between the Rhône and Saône rivers. There’s a different atmosphere again on the hillside of Croix Rousse where silk weavers sat behind tall windows in the early 19th century to work the new Jacquard looms.

Musee des Confluences

Ultra-modern buildings are popping up across the city too, especially in the area around Part-Dieu, one of Lyon’s two big stations. I love the bold architecture of the Musée des Confluences, located at the tip of the peninsula. Dedicated to the origins and future of humanity, the museum’s permanent collection is enhanced by temporary exhibitions and events.

Discover the city’s artistic heritage

Lyon boasts more than 100 murals, painted in the 1980s. Take a guided tour or explore independently. At the top of Croix Rousse hill, the enormous Mur des Canuts – the name given to Lyon’s silk workers – is updated regularly with new scenes. Look out too for the fresco of famous Lyon personalities on the banks of the Saône, and the giant City Library with its piles of books. The wall art tradition continues to evolve with a new wave of street artists and an annual Peinture Fraïche festival in October.

View of the Opera House towards Fourviere, Lyon

There is art to suit every taste at Lyon’s Fine Arts Museum close to the Hôtel de Ville, or Town Hall, but if you are a fan of musical arts, book one of the behind-the-scenes tours of the nearby Opera House, home not just to a resident opera company but also a ballet company and orchestra. An extraordinary building that combines 19th century grandeur with a vast domed roofspace and five floors underground added in 1993 by architect Jean Nouvel.

Eat at a traditional bouchon

Ile Flottante, Daniel et Denise

For authentic local dishes in traditional homely surroundings, check out the 25 restaurants accredited with a Bouchon Lyonnais label. The name comes from the bundle of straw used to groom horses at coaching inns. Expect paté en croute and sausages, coq au vin, Salade Lyonnaise with bacon and poached egg, and delicately flavoured pike quenelles. And I still dream about the fluffy dome of Ile Flottante dotted with crispy red praline, a signature dish at Daniel et Denise in Rue Crequi, one of three branches across the city centre.

Lyon was also home to the late Paul Bocuse who helped establish the city as the Gastronomic Capital of France with his innovative style of nouvelle cuisine. You can still eat at Bocuse brasseries – try Le Nord, Le Sud, L’Est et L’Ouest for regional French dishes – and browse the stalls at the indoor market, renamed in his honour.

Live music at La Commune food court, Lyon

Many of Lyon’s most innovative chefs have trained under the great man who died in 2018, but the city also encourages a new generation at La Commune in an eclectic mix of cuisine. At this ‘incubator for chefs’, entrepreneurs can rent a kitchen in a giant food court to try out their concept for a fixed period of months.

Indulge in retail therapy

A large area of the Presqu’Ile is now pedestrianised between Perrache station and the Town Hall. Here you will find both high-end and High Street retailers, as well as independent boutiques. Edible gifts to take home? Drop in at a branch of Pralus for handmade chocolates, praline, and the scrumptious Praluline, a domed brioche studded with pinky-red praline.

For craft items and gifts such as pottery, jewellery and interior décor, browse the small boutiques now occupying some of the former weaving workshops in Croix Rousse, the city’s latest on-trend area. And for retail therapy with added atmosphere, head to Vieux Lyon for traditional souvenirs such as silk scarves, as well as paintings and framed photos of those colourful facades and Italianate loggias inside traboules. In town on Sunday? Then spend the morning browsing the design and craft markets on Quai Bondy beside the Saône.

Where to stay:  Gillian stayed at the Hotel de Verdun 1882, a quiet boutique hotel on the Presqu’Ile close to Perrache station and within easy walking distance of all attractions.

Visitor information: Find information on attractions, accommodation, and restaurants at Visit Lyon. For free access to visitor attractions and public transport, invest in a Lyon City Card, available to buy at stations, tourist offices and key cultural outlets, or order on line for 24, 48, 72h or 96h, with or without airport transfer on the Rhône Express.

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