Jan Kabili

Biography

Jan Kabili is a digital photographer and artist, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a law degree from Stanford Law School. Jan is also a popular Photoshop author and trainer. She's written numerous books, including How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web, Photoshop Complete Course, and Photoshop 7 ImageReady Hands on Training for the Web. She's a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine, and has written for Macworld magazine, Mac Design magazine, SBS Digital Design magazine, and the Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow Book. Jan also records software training movies for lynda.com and Software Cinema.

Blog

Don't Miss a Spot

March 05 2007

Don’t miss a spot when you’re cleaning up a large photo with the Remove Spots tool in the Develop module. Rather than scrolling around randomly looking for dust spots, use this trick to make sure you’ve examined every bit of the photo. In the Navigator panel, set the zoom level… read more

Lightroom's Organizing Features -- Part Deux

February 23 2007

The many ways to organize photos in Lightroom include not only folders and keywords, which I covered in Part 1 of this post. Take things a step further and try out collections, Quick Collections, and stacks. Here’s a quick guide to what these features are and when to use them:… read more

Lightroom's Organizing Features -- Part I

February 20 2007

Do you feel great when your papers are stacked into neat piles, your transparencies tucked into slide pages, and your books arranged on the shelf? If so, you’ll appreciate the variety of photo-organizing features in Lightroom. The Library module offers everything from folder tracking to keywords, collections, Quick Collections, and… read more