It’s not often we post a four-minute Photoshop tutorial with the power to prevent all kinds of frustration, but that’s what you’ll learn in the video below. In fact one highly respected pro insists “this tip saved my sanity,” and it could do the same for you.

Matt Kloskowski is a Photoshop/Lightroom specialist who says his mission is “to create straightforward tutorials that help you get the results you’ve always wanted.” And that’s a pretty good description for what you’ll learn today.

Kloskowski begins this Photoshop lesson with a question: “How many times have you gone up to the File menu and clicked on Save or Save As, thinking the image will be saved to your computer?” But then you’re greeted with the dialogue box in the first photo below.

The problem occurs if you’re not paying close attention. So you click on the Save button, and the image is unwittingly saved to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Then you search for the photo on your computer, and it’s nowhere to be found. As you might imagine, this can drive you nuts and waste a lot of tome.

Adobe made this change in 2020, and it’s responsible for a lot of frustration. Fortunately there’s a quick solution for making certain this never happens again. All you have to do is navigate to Photoshop’s Preferences panel and change the default Save location from Creative Cloud to On Your Computer.

Kloskowski offers a bonus tip that also involves a quick Preferences change. This one comes in handy when you wish to save an image you’ve edited and saved in the past, but this time you want to switch the file format—perhaps to JPEG for online use. It’s just as quick and easy to do as the sanity-saving tip mentioned above.

We really suggest that you learn these two tricks, and jot down a couple notes for future reference. After all, no one wants to go insane, right?

You can find more helpful tips like these by taking a look at Kloskowski’s popular YouTube channel, so be sure to pay a visit and subscribe.

We also recommend you check out the helpful tutorial we posted recently, explaining how to use another Photoshop tool that delivers awesome color with ease.

Have you ever come across the Color Calibration panel while editing an image in Lightroom but were unsure what these tools achieve and how they work? If so, the quick tutorial will set you straight by explaining how the the various sliders can but used for a variety of purposes.

German photographer and instructor Maike Born solves the mystery in barely four minutes, helping you understand how the sliders affect images for achieving accurate colors or creating unique special effects. She says, “This tool has a deeper meaning for both color correction and creativity, and she begins with a brief discussion of color science to make what follows easy to understand.

As you may already know, a photograph consists of three primary colors: red, green and blue. And all other colors result from a combination of at least two of these primary colors. For example, with only red and blue pixels the result with be a purple tone. Yet with all three colors the image will contain a wide range of tones—depending upon the specific value of each color.
 

There’s no universal standard of how the three primary colors appear, because different cameras brands use a propriety rendition of how colors appear. As a result, if you’re using a Sony camera but prefer Canon’s color palette, the proper use of Lightroom’s Color Calibration tool helps you get that done in a hurry.

But there’s more to this tool than tweeking colors to meet your preference. As you’ll see, “you can also use the Color Calibration tool to create unique effects and a style of your own. So why is calibrating colors so important? One basic reason is to render skin tones as accurately as possible.

Now that you have the necessary background of how colors interact, Born delves into the specifics of employing the various sliders to refines the tones of an image. This simple method works great for portraits shot indoors or out, nature and landscape images, and just about everything else you may shoot.
 

She begins by moving a single slider within Lightroom’s HSL panel and you’ll see how that modifies an image is rendered. She then illustrates why the Color Calibration sliders offer far more control—especially when you want to remove an unsightly color cast that degrades the quality of your shot.

There’s much more to learn on Born’s instructional YouTube channel, so pay a quick visit after watching this video.

And don’t miss the earlier tutorial we posted, explaining how to speed up your Lightroom workflow with 5 easy tips