Did you know that the adjustment brush allows you to slowly build up the amount of change you apply to an image, and also slowly back off on a change you made? The secret is in the Flow and Density sliders. Density controls how much of the specified adjustment can be applied in total, and Flow [...]
I will be doing another of my popular two hour Lightroom demonstrations on September 10 at 6:30 pm at Shoreline College. Click here for more information. Email me at laura@laurashoe.com to RSVP -- I'd love to see you there!
These days I encourage students to leave Bridge and Camera Raw behind and use Lightroom for all of their basic image editing needs (resorting to Photoshop when heavy guns are required). But if you do find a reason to use Bridge and Camera Raw, you'll discover that Lightroom does not automatically see and show any Bridge [...]
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 [...]
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic. However, I noticed today that my colleague Gene McCullagh has just written about this over on his blog, Lightroom Secrets. I agree with Gene that Lightroom will serve most photographers needs most of the time (and some photographers, all the time). My advice to serious [...]
Selecting images seems to be a fairly straightforward task, but Lightroom can actually be pretty finicky about how you do it. Here's a video I put together to show you how to select individual images and groups of images, and to help you avoid unintended consequences. Watch This Video on How to Select Images in Lightroom
Two factors determine how big your image will be when displayed -- the size of your image in pixels, and how many pixels are displayed per inch, which is referred to as resolution. Both of the example images below have 6 pixels (3x2): the first is displayed at 1 pixel per inch, and the second is [...]
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 [...]
You are designing a slideshow, and you want the background color to be a particular color from one of your images. Or, you are designing a web gallery, and you want the background color to be the color on your website, or some other cool color you have found. The question is, how do you find [...]
I'm back in town very briefly, so I thought I'd post information about my next free Lightroom Demonstration here in Seattle. It is Saturday, May 16, from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Capitol Hill Library. For more information, click here. Space is limited, so please RSVP to laura@laurashoe.com if you would like to attend. [...]
