Having Lightroom automatically advance to the next photo after you evaluate your current one with flags, stars and/or color labels (and keeping your hands on the keyboard at all times) can significantly speed up your culling work. Watch my video tutorial below for details on how to use auto advance, or read on below the video. [...]
Tonight Adobe released Lightroom Classic (CC*) 8.2.1, cloud-based Lightroom (CC*) 2.2.1, and iOS and Android 4.2.1 with support for new cameras and with one bug fix. There are no new features in these small "double-dot" releases. Raw files from the following new cameras are now supported (i.e. can now be imported): Canon EOS RP Panasonic [...]
Are you running out of space on the hard drive where your photos are stored? In this video tutorial I'll show you how to safely move large quantities of photos to another hard drive without leaving Lightroom confused. This video is one of 107 in 24+ hours of content in my Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic CC: [...]
Update 2020: This is an old article. Lightroom 6 is no longer for sale from authorized dealers. Lightroom 6 was the last perpetual version of Lightroom offered before Adobe went subscription-only with Lightroom Classic CC. Up until recently Adobe continued to sell Lightroom 6 - but here's a recent statement from Jeff Tranberry of Adobe [...]
If you've used Lightroom Classic's adjustment brush (or "brush" in the cloud-based Lightroom), you've probably wondered why it starts out with some sliders not at zero and with a particular brush size, feathering, etc.. In this very short video tutorial I'll show you how to set your own default settings in the brush, graduated filter [...]
Adobe today released version 2.2 of the Lightroom CC cloud-based desktop application, along with Lightroom CC iOS 4.2 and Android 4.2. In addition to bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles, the desktop application received significant new features, including panorama stitching, HDR multiple-exposure merging,the Target Adjustment Tool, an Enhanced Detail process to optionally [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic CC version 8.2 today. In addition to bug fixes and new lens profiles, there are tethering improvements and a new feature for enhancing fine detail in raw files. Updates for Lightroom CC Desktop, iOS and Android were also released - see my Lightroom CC article for details. In This Article: Support [...]
Enhanced Details was made available today in the February releases of Lightroom Classic CC (v. 8.2) and Lightroom CC Desktop (v. 2.2). This new process can potentially improve the quality of very fine detail and reduce artifacts and moire in raw files. It re-renders your raw file using a more sophisticated demosaicing algorithm that is [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos' and videos' metadata so that when you share these photos with the outside world, the data automatically tags along with them and people can get in touch with you if they come across your photos and want to use them. In Lightroom Classic CC and [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos and videos so that when you share them with the outside world, the data automatically tags along with them and people can get in touch with you if they come across your photos and want to use them. Unfortunately the cloud-based Lightroom (as opposed to [...]
Adobe released a small update to Lightroom CC Desktop this morning. A "double-dot" update like this one fixes issues that can't wait for a regularly-scheduled update. Lightroom CC 2.1.1 fixes sync issues that were inadvertently present in the 2.1 update earlier this week. I do recommend that you install this update. If you weren't prompted to [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic CC v. 8.1 today, a free update for subscribers. The release includes small new features, bug fixes, support for many new cameras, and new lens profiles. Updates were also released for the cloud-based Lightroom CC desktop application as well as for Lightroom CC mobile iOS and Android - see my Lightroom [...]
