To give users time to prepare, Adobe has announced this week that when Lightroom 6 is released (no date yet), it will require Mac OS X 10.8 or above (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite), or a 64 bit version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. According to Adobe, "Focusing our work on more modern operating systems and [...]
Adobe released Lightroom mobile for Android phones last night, after releasing the Apple iPhone / iPad version nine months ago. The app is free from your Google Play app store, but using it requires a Creative Cloud subscription. You can now: Sync collections of photos from your desktop Lightroom catalog to the Lightroom mobile app. Import [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos with a preset as you import them into Lightroom, so that when you share photos with the outside world, this data automatically tags along with them and people can get in touch with you if they come across your photos and want to use them. [...]
In this video, I show you how I use Jim Keier's great Lightroom Duplicate Finder plugin to find and eliminate duplicate photos. I show you my workflow, give you tips and tricks along the way, and I show you the Lightroom skills you need to get the most from the tool. [...]
Adobe has released a small update to Lightroom 5.7.1, with new camera support for the Sony ILCE-A7M2, a bug fix to address chromatic aberration issues specific to the Samsung NX1, and new lens profiles. New Lens Profiles Mount Name Canon EF Canon EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Canon EF Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Canon EF [...]
Lightroom 5 has brought a surge of reports from users that one or more of their panels have gone missing - most often the Basic panel (white balance, exposure and other tone adjustments, clarity, saturation and vibrance). Now that I have switched to a Mac, I finally understand why this surge is occurring - there's a [...]
Lightroom 5.7 was released tonight. For those of you waiting for support for the Canon 7D Mark II, the Nikon D750, and other new cameras, as well as those of you with the Nikon D4S and D810 waiting for tethering support, this will be great news. For the rest of us, there are bug fixes, new [...]
[UPDATE - ENDED!] In case you missed it, now through November 30, you can watch the recording of my October webinar, on getting and staying organized in Lightroom. Getting and staying organized in Lightroom is critical to being able to enjoy and work efficiently with your photo library. In this webinar I discuss what role folder [...]
I generally don't review photography books on this blog, but I am making an exception to let you know about a book I have really enjoyed from Charles Needle, Impressionistic Photography: A Field Guide to Using Your Camera as a Paintbrush. If you're in a creative lull, or want to add more creative techniques to your [...]
Adobe has announced the immediate availability of the release candidate of Camera Raw 8.7 and an update to the DNG Converter - both are available at labs.adobe.com. The DNG converter in particular can be useful for Lightroom users who have purchased one of the new cameras below - until support for these cameras is available in [...]
With this free Lightroom plugin from Chris Reimold, we can view our in-camera focus points in Lightroom 5! According to Chris it works for all Nikon DSLR cameras and post-2002 Canon EOS DSLR cameras. It reads your camera focus metadata (focus points, distance, mode, etc), and displays the results in a separate window that opens. Click [...]
As I monitor forums, I see so much confusion about resolution and how to set it in Lightroom, that I thought it was time for a post on it.Our photos are made up of pixels - squares of solid color that our camera sensor captures. For example, a photo from a 24 megapixel (MP) camera [...]