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]

Lightroom can perform amazingly fast searches for your photos. When I search for my winter tree photos in my catalog of over 30,000 photos, Lightroom will display the results before I can even snap my fingers. Of course I have to have taken the time to keyword my photos first! Lightroom can search on more than just keywords. In fact you can search on just about any information about your photos that you can imagine — camera and exposure information, file name and type, stars and other attributes, location, and much, much more. Rather than write a long article on how to search for your photos in Lightroom, here is a video tutorial in which I show you.  It is [...more]

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]

Lightroom is a fabulous program, but it can be daunting. Here are a few resources to get you started with getting your photos and videos into Lightroom. 1. An article on how Lightroom works with a catalog and what importing really means. 2. Two Videos from my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals and Beyond – Workshop on Video series (of 10 1/2 hours of training on 55 videos) on importing photos and videos — i.e. getting Lightroom to see them: The first covers importing photos already on your hard drive, as well as other import basics, such as setting up a copyright and contact information preset. (Do watch this one first, as I cover Import basics that the second [...more]

Do any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn’t straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix two things that are really close to each other, and the spot removal tool won’t let you? If so, you will want to watch my 5 minute video here showing some cool tips for using the Lightroom spot removal tool.  They won’t always work, but when they do they are quite handy. These tips apply to all version of Lightroom, and to Camera Raw [...more]

In this 65 minute video from my January 11 Lightroom 4 Beta webinar, I give you a tour of the new features, and explain the basics of how to use them. I wish the audio quality were better, but it is what it is — rest assured that my Lightroom DVD products have higher quality audio and video. For even more details, check out my new Lightroom 4 Fundamentals & Beyond Workshop on Video, available as soon as Lightroom 4 releases. Table of Contents (also shown on video web page with start times) 1. Introduction 2. Develop Changes 3. Map Module 4. Book Module 5. Saving Output – Book, Print, Slideshow, Web 6. Video Editing and Exporting 7. Integrated Email/Webmail [...more]

This Lightroom video tutorial is the 5th of 37 on my DVD.  It covers how to add photos to Lightroom that are already on your hard drive, and also how to add new photos from memory cards. I have debated whether to post it, because there is some context missing that is covered in previous videos on the DVD —  on how Lightroom works with a catalog and what importing really means, and on how you should organize photos on your hard drive.  Here is an article I wrote explaining how Lightroom works with a catalog and what importing means. As far as where to put your photos and how to organize them on your hard drive, suffice it to [...more]

Several of my readers and Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond DVD customers have contacted me to find out if I plan to produce a series on Printing with Lightroom.  I do, but I do not have a date for it at this point.  Therefore, I thought I would pull together a couple of video tutorials on printing that  I did a while back, for you to enjoy for free. The first video covers both Custom Print Package layout and watermarking capabilities in Lightroom 3.  I love the Custom Print Package — it allows me to layout multiple images on a page any way I want, and add some text to the page as well. The second video covers how to find, [...more]

I am working on a Lightroom 3 training DVD, which I will be offering for sale, hopefully soon.  The concept is a “Lightroom Workshop on DVD”.  It is a series of many videos, several hours long in total, designed for beginning and intermediate Lightroom users.  I cover just about everything I teach in my two-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop.    Since it has been a while since I have posted to this blog, I thought I would share with you one video from this series, on how to use Lightroom’s adjustment brush to make local changes to your images. Click HERE to watch the video. If you are interested in hearing about the DVD when it is available, click on the [...more]

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