Adobe released Lightroom 6.12 and CC 2015.12 tonight. This is a free update for Lightroom 6 and CC customers. It includes support for new cameras, new lens profiles, and several bug fixes, some for bugs that have been outstanding for a long time, and one for a serious issue (that I wasn't aware of) where Lightroom [...]
Adobe today released Lightroom mobile 2.8 for iOS and 3.0 for Android, with some great changes and additions. Download the updated Lightroom mobile iOS app from the Apple App store or the Android app from the Google Play store on your mobile device. While they are free to download and use, you'll need a Creative Cloud [...]
Tom Hogarty, Sr. Product Manager of Digital Imaging at Adobe, posted a note this week over at Lightroom Journal indicating that improving Lightroom performance is now Adobe's top priority, acknowledging that it is not currently meeting expectations. Tom cited known pain points around "GPU, import performance, certain editing tasks and review workflows, " but he is [...]
Do you have a mess in Lightroom? If so, you're not alone. Watch my 80-minute recorded webinar to learn how to clean up your keywords, collections, files and folders, catalogs and duplicate photos. Topics covered Keywords Correct misspellings, consolidate duplicates ("dog", "dogs") into one, organize keywords into hierarchies Collections Rename or delete collections, find a [...]
Adobe released small updates to Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile today with bug fixes and new camera support. Lightroom Desktop: Lightroom 6.10.1 and CC 2015.10.1 This is a small update with bug fixes, one new lens profile and support for Panasonic and Sony new cameras. To update, go to Help>Update in Lightroom or the Apps tab in [...]
UPDATE: This event has ended. Enter your email address below sign up for my newsletter - I'll communicate after the event about how to access the recording. Whether it’s spring or fall in your part of the world, it’s time to do some seasonal cleanup in Lightroom! In this webinar I’ll show you how [...]
Adobe today released Lightroom 6.10 and CC 2015.10 with support for new cameras, new lens profiles, and bug fixes. There are no new features in this release. If Lightroom doesn’t prompt you to update, go to Help>Updates, or click on the Update button on the Apps tab of your Creative Cloud app, or download the update file [...]
The Vibrance and Saturation sliders in Lightroom's Basic panel will both intensify colors in your photos. Saturation is an equal-opportunity, non-discrimatory control - it will saturate all colors in your photo equally, even if they start out at different levels of intensity. This is a great control to use if you want to give a quick and [...]
In the first article of this series on exporting from Lightroom, I discussed what exporting is, and when you should and shouldn't export. In short, you'll click on the Export button to export a copy of your selected photo(s) pretty much any time you want to share them with the outside world. Now I'll start discussing the [...]
Lightroom 6.9 and CC 2015.9 were released today with support for new cameras, new lens profiles, bug fixes, and improved error messages for syncing to Lightroom mobile (CC only). There are otherwise no new features in these free updates to 6 and CC. If Lightroom doesn’t prompt you to update, go to Help>Updates, or click on the Update [...]
Adobe just announced the availability of Lightroom mobile 2.7 for iOS and 2.3 for Android. The big new feature for both is HDR (High Dynamic Range) capture and merge – this allows you to automatically capture three DNG files with detail in highlights and shadows, and Lightroom mobile will merge them together into a single file with detail throughout the [...]
This is my first article in what will be a several part series on Lightroom's Export function. This article will focus on what exporting is for and when you should export. Future ones will go into the settings. Background: Lightroom's Non-Destructive Approach to Image Editing Lightroom works non-destructively, meaning that it never touches your original raw [...]
