In my tutorial on jpeg quality, I displayed two photos side by side and zoomed in on them together to compare them up close. A reader asked me how I did this — thanks to this reader for giving me the idea for Friday’s Lightroom Quick Tip. In the Library module, select your two photos (click [...]
Anywhere you see a color selection square in Lightroom, such as for page background color in the Print module, you can choose a color not only from the color picker that comes up when you click on it, but also a color from one of your photos. How? Simply click in the main color selection area [...]
For this week’s Lightroom tip, I am resurrecting one from a couple years ago: I recommend that you do all of your Lightroom clean up and retouching work zoomed into 1:2 or 1:1 (the latter for larger prints). You should also review all of your local adjustments at these zoom ratios to make sure that [...]
Do you like Lightroom’s print layout capabilities, but don’t have a printer to print to, or want to just share your design electronically? No problem — design your layout in the Print module, and print to a jpeg instead of to a printer. Send the jpeg out for someone else to print, or email it [...]
I was flattered when David over at Seven by Five (sevenbyfive.net) asked if I would contribute to his popular blog. We were thrilled when Adobe featured the article on their Facebook page yesterday. If you haven't yet read my 10+ Little Lightroom Tips That Can Make a Big Difference, head on over. Check out more [...]
I love Survey View for viewing and comparing several images side-by-side. In the Library Module, select multiple images, then click on the Survey View icon in the toolbar or type the shortcut N. In Survey View, your mouse is not the zoom tool, so it is not quite as easy to zoom in on [...]
If you plan to print your image, I recommend that you do all of your clean up work zoomed into 1:1. You should also review all of your local adjustments at this zoom ratio to make sure that your edges aren't obvious. Here's an easy way to move through your image while you are [...]
Just a quick tip today — it is 92 in my office and 103 outside — the hottest day in recorded Seattle history. (I realize that this is nothing for some of you!) My folders are arranged in a hierarchy — Picturesyearshoot, with ocassional subfolders within a shoot. By default the Lightroom folder panel shows an [...]
In Lightroom you can hide the top, bottom, left and right panels so that you have more room to show your images. To hide a panel, click on the triangle at the outside center edge of the panel. Click on it again to show it again. There are shortcuts, of course: Tab hides and shows the [...]
You may have noticed that once you specify a crop in Lightroom and then try to move the crop frame, that it goes in the opposite direction from what you expect. Instead of thinking of yourself clicking and dragging inside the crop frame to move the crop frame, think of yourself as clicking and dragging inside [...]
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have your thumbnails on one screen, and your full size image on another? Lightroom 1 users thought so and pressed Adobe to provide this functionality. Adobe did so in Lightroom 2. It is very easy to set up: In the Library and Develop modules, on the left side [...]
