 A NOTE FROM SCOTT

GETTING INTO GEAR

Lots of fun stuff going on right now! We just wrapped up the KelbyOne Landscape Photography Conference, and it was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who spent a few days with us learning all the new stuff (including lots of postprocessing classes, of course), and we’re very grateful for the wonderful turnout and support. If you weren’t able to attend, you can still sign up for the conference and stream all the classes on-demand for an entire year. Head over to KelbyOneLive.com, click the View Conferences link up top, and then click the Past Conferences tab.

Next up is our first-ever Photography Gear Conference on May 17–18, 2022, where the entire focus of the two-day conference is to help you master your camera gear, lenses, and accessories. For the first time ever, we have separate tracks for Nikon, Canon, and Sony shooters and, of course, we have classes on photo gear that will help all photographers (like classes on flash and other lighting gear, tripods, etc.). It’s going to be something really unique and super helpful, so we’d love you to be there. You can find more info and tickets at KelbyOneLive.com.

Here in the magazine, we’re sad to announce that Lightroom expert Victoria Bampton is retiring from the “Lightroom Q&A” column, and this will be her last issue. Next issue, we’re delighted to welcome a wonderful digital artist and KelbyOne instructor Victoria Pavlov, who will be taking over our “Photoshop Q&A” column. Terry White, who had previously penned that column, will be taking over our “Lightroom Q&A” column from Victoria Bampton. As excited as we are to have one of Adobe’s own Senior Evangelists taking over the reins, we’re so grateful to Victoria Bampton for the wonderful job she has done with the column with her wisdom, insights, and spot-on answers to the trickiest of Lightroom questions. She is a star, and we were honored to have her gracing our pages. Although we’ll miss her, she’ll be leaving the column in really good hands. Thank you, Victoria.

In other news, I’m happy to announce that the search improvements to the KelbyOne member’s site that I wrote about last month have been a hit with our members. They’re really seeing the difference, and they’re able to find the courses and info they need faster and easier. You just don’t know how happy that makes me. Thanks for all the great feedback in the KelbyOne forums, and a high-five to our web team for making it all happen.

Before we go, I wanted to point out two courses that we recently released that I want to make sure you don’t miss. They’re both from Photoshop wizard Kirk Nelson (who also writes one of the “Down & Dirty Tricks” columns here in the magazine), and the first one is really cool because it focuses on Enhancing

Backgrounds Using Photoshop’s New Neural Filters.

There’s a lot more power and control in these filters than most people realize, and Kirk uncorks that genie. I think you’ll be surprised at how much you can do, and what a difference these filters can make. His other course is about Shooting and Compositing Your Own Special Effects. This really takes things up a notch, and it will open a whole new world of effects that can separate your work from the crowd. My thanks to Kirk for coming up with such unique courses for our members, and I hope you’ll give them a look. You’ll super-dig ’em.

Here’s wishing you a great spring, packed with lots of creative opportunities! ☺

All my best,

Scott Kelby KelbyOne President & CEO Editor & Publisher

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