There's a new tutorial on Lightroom Secrets with some good guidance for handling rejected images in Lightroom.

Unless you're a complete novice, you've no doubt adjusted the contrast and levels for a photograph. Matt Campbell has written a tutorial for PSDTUTS+ that demonstrates a way of safely using Auto Levels, a better way to adjust the contrast, and how it can all be built into an action that can be turned into a droplet for drag and drop batch processing.

Ever shot a photo with ambient light instead of a flash? When you get ready to edit it, you notice the lighting is uneven. Brighter on one side, perhaps, than another? Rosie Tanner, from Photoshop Daily, demonstrates how to even out those uneven lighting situations.

This is a very nice tutorial on a great topic. How to create a texture brush. It's handy for giving photographs extra texture without the need to blend images.

This is a timely tutorial for American photographers: how to successfully photography 4th of July fireworks.

PSDTUTS+ has added a very detailed tutorial by Robert McLaughlin on the topic of restoring old photographs. He demonstrats how to remove scratches, tears, spots, and other damage typical of antique photos.

Ever see a photograph that's been processed by Lightroom and wonder what settings were used? Some people get testy about this and argue it's stealing to reverse engineer someone's Lightroom settings. (If you're one, you might want to stop reading now, to keep your stress levels down.) Matt Kloskowski disagrees. He even encourages people to freely adapt (i.e., steal) his Fairy Glow preset.

Have more than one computer? Upgraded and wanted to get all your presets and actions moved? BittBox has a brief tutorial that discusses how to keep Photoshop synchrononized on multiple machines.

I've seen a number of video tutorials on content-aware scaling. Some really good. Some OK. But I like .PSD and .HTML tutorials, too. I like being able to store a .PDF or to print a tutorial and read it at my leisure.

Kajik has produced an HTML tutorial for PSDTUTS+ on content-aware scaling that's a very nice introduction.

Alain Briot has posted an essay on The Luminous Landscape with an unusual technique. He's been experimenting with the use of camera movement during landscape photography, and he's obtained some interesting results.

Alain walks readers through the technique and provides several examples from his own photography.