Photoshop Workflow

Workflow & Automation

The Workflow Tools I Actually Use After 15 Years of Commercial Post-Production

The first time I manually cropped and resized the same image 200 times in a single day, I didn’t get angry. I got methodical. I spent that evening learning Photoshop scripting, built an action the next morning, and ran the whole batch in under four minutes. That was fifteen years ago. I haven’t repeated a manual task since — at least not without asking myself whether a tool should be doing it instead.

July 7, 2026

Workflow Tools

The Workflow Tools Actually Worth Installing (After 15 Years of Testing Bad Ones)

The Hidden Cost of “Just Doing It Manually” Last spring I was onboarding a freelancer to help with overflow work from an e-commerce client. She was talented, fast, detail-oriented. And she was doing every single background removal by hand, one at a time, in a 200-image product catalog. Not because she didn’t know better tools existed, but because nobody had ever sat her down and shown her what was actually available.

July 2, 2026

Color Grading

Color Lookup Tables (LUTs) for Photoshop: The Workflow Game-Changer You're Probably Sleeping On

Color Lookup Tables (LUTs) for Photoshop: The Workflow Game-Changer You’re Probably Sleeping On I didn’t fully appreciate LUTs until I was color grading my 47th product shot of the day and realized I could apply a complex, multi-layer grading setup in literally one click. If you’re still manually building adjustment layers for every single image, I need to tell you about 3D LUTs—because they’ll fundamentally change how you work. What Actually Is a LUT?

February 2, 2026