Waiting for the light to get good so you can shoot? In line at the DMV? Relaxing on your summer vacation? Whip out your iPad, iPhone, or other MP4 video-compatible mobile device, watch my Lightroom videos, and learn how to take your photography post-processing to the next level! My Lightroom 3 and Lightroom 4 Fundamentals & Beyond Series are i-Compatible.  To add them to your iTunes library, go to File>Add Folder, and select the folder or folders from your purchased DVD or download. Then sync Movies on your iPad or iPhone. (Sorry I don’t have instructions for Android and other devices, but if they support MP4 videos, they will play my videos.) Lightroom 4 Fundamentals & Beyond: Over 10 1/2 [...more]

If you are a Craft & Vision e-book fan as I am, you may be interested in this great deal from Photo Whoa — through Monday, April 30 only!   40 quality e-books for $89 — less than $2.25/book! Click here for the Photo Whoa deal. Deal ends 10 pm PT Monday, 1 am ET Tuesday / 5 am GMT Tuesday. (In the interest of full disclosure, I do get a percentage on each sale — but I don’t promote what I don’t believe in.)    

I hope you were able to catch all or part of my 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop last week on creativeLIVE! If you missed the workshop, or you want to watch it again, remember that you can purchase the entire 3-day recorded workshop, at creativeLIVE.com for $99. If you don’t know creativeLIVE, you MUST check them out!  They offer free high-quality multi-day photography workshops online.  It was truly a privilege to teach for this fabulous team, and I thank them all for creating this wonderful live worldwide classroom, and for their professionalism, energy and stamina, encouragement and support, and for making it so fun! It was particularly wonderful to have the interaction with not only the great in-studio audience, but also [...more]

My FREE 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop with creativeLIVE started today! It runs through Saturday, 9 am (12 pm ET/4 pm GMT)- 4 pm PT .  There is also a free re-broadcast at 5:00 pm PT / 8 pm ET / 12:00 am GMT  every night (which is going on as I type this!) Tune in LIVE at this link!   You can also purchase the recorded version. Full information and registration are here. I hope you can join me for at least part of this workshop!  We did the rewarding, yet heavy-lifting part today — the Library module. On Friday (day 2), we head into the fun part — a bit on Map, then Develop. Note that this workshop is [...more]

I am pleased and honored to announce that I will be teaching a 3-day Lightroom 4 Fundamentals workshop for creativeLIVE, Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 9 am – 4 pmPacific Time. This will be a FREE live broadcast over the web, so you can tune in from just about anywhere! Lightroom 4 Fundamentals In this three day workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom 4, concentrating on the Library, Map and Develop modules where you organize, edit, and fix and enhance your photos and videos. Learn how to import and organize your photos and videos; evaluate and assign keywords, map location and other information to them; find them, and fix and enhance them. Learn how to work more efficiently [...more]

I have just posted four new Lightroom webinar sessions for this coming month on my Webinars page: What’s New in Lightroom 4 Overview of Lightroom (2 sessions) Overview of Lightroom’s Output Modules They are filling fast, so if you’re interested, sign up now! I will schedule more if demand warrants — be sure to join my mailing list  to be informed of additional offerings.   Enter your email below to sign up for updates:  

I was on Amazon last night, looking to see what is out for Lightroom 4 training, and couldn’t help but notice that there is almost nothing!  The biggest authors are releasing books — in April and May. I just thought I would point out that my video series, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals & Beyond (A Workshop on Video), is available NOW, on DVD or by download.  Why wait to get started? Here’s what Don B. had to say about the Lightroom 3 version of my series: “This is the best investment that I have made for learning Lightroom. I have bought books and watched other tutorials. This is by far the best way that I have found for [...more]

If you are in Seattle or can travel in, don’t miss this chance to learn in a small class setting! In this two day hands-on workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom, concentrating on the Library and Develop modules where you manage, edit and enhance your images. With hands-on practice, learn how to organize, backup, manage, edit, fix and enhance your images, and the basics of working through large shoots efficiently with collections, presets, and synchronized settings. Learn how to move back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop, and finally, to create jpeg and other copies of your images to share with others. Click here for details and to register.

Read the description for this free 90 minute overview, and register for it, on my webinar page.  Don’t wait — it will fill fast!

Lightroom 3 is the latest version of Adobe’s image management and enhancement program designed specifically for photographers. With its streamlined workflow, database capabilities and powerful global and local image enhancement tools, it has become a very powerful yet relatively intuitive program that can benefit most photographers. In this lecture I will discuss what makes Lightroom so attractive and give you a tour of the program. Whether you have never seen the program and are wondering if it is something you should consider, or you already have it and wonder if you are leveraging all it can do, this free lecture is for you. Seating limited — please email me to RSVP. Capitol Hill Library, 5:30 – 7:30 pm