Adobe announced today at Photoshop World a new more attractive photographer Creative Cloud offering, consisting of Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, 20 GB cloud storage, Behance ProSite membership, and access to online CC training content. This offer will be available the week of September 16 to owners of Photoshop CS3 and newer, for signup through December 31, [...]
Join Charles Needle and me at the peak of autumn color in Seattle's beautiful Japanese Garden, October 25-26, 2013 . In this 2-day workshop, you'll learn how to capture fall colors in pleasing compositions that evoke the spirit of the Garden, and to bring out the best in your photos using Lightroom's Develop module. We will [...]
Believe it or not, sometimes I actually enjoy reading the names of the Adobe Lightroom folks as I wait for Lightroom to start, because I know some of these folks and appreciate what they do. After a couple times, though, I’m ready for something new, so I now display photos: It is relatively easy to change [...]
Have you ever wondered how to turn off (or on) the information that displays over your photos when you are in Loupe view (single-photo view) in Lightroom's Library and Develop modules? The secret is to type the keyboard shortcut "I", for "Information". If no information is showing, typing "I" once displays one set of information about [...]
Adobe announced today the immediate availability of a release candidate for Lightroom 5.2. This has been tested internally, but is released to the Lightroom community early for additional testing and feedback ahead of the official release. You can download Lightroom 5.2 RC on Adobe Labs here. As I usually suggest, if you have no immediate need [...]
Sean McCormack's Essential Development: 20 Great Techniques for Lightroom 5 is out! An update to Sean's Lightroom 4 e-book, it focuses exclusively on developing photos, and is full of great techniques and tips. For only $7, you receive not only a very generous 130+ page e-book, but also 100 of Sean's develop presets. Sean is an [...]
You may know that Adobe has indicated thatthey are working on a way to sync our Lightroom catalog to mobile devices via the cloud. But did you know that you can already do this - or at least if you are using a Mac? Mosaic, a New Hampshire company founded by Gerard Murphy and Andy Young [...]
I am very happy to report that Victoria Bampton's exceptional reference book, Adobe Lightroom 5 - The Missing FAQ, is now available! Victoria is a fellow Adobe Community Professional and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom, the founder of lightroomforums.net, and one of the most knowledgeable Lightroom experts I know. She therefore understands what questions Lightroom [...]
If you're in the Seattle area, please join me and the Seattle Flickrites meetup group July 24, 2013 from 6-8 pm. I will demonstrate the new features in Lightroom 5, and those in Photoshop CC applicable to photographers. Sign up and get more information on the Seattle Flickrite meetup page here.
If you have upgraded to Lightroom 4, 5, 6 or CC from Lightroom 3 or earlier (even if you came via Lightroom 4), when you look at photos in the Develop module that came from Lightroom 3, you will see a lightning bolt below the histogram if the histogram is open, or to the left of the [...]
Those of you that follow this blog regularly know that I love the Custom Package functionality in Lightroom’s Print module. With this, we can create free-form layouts of multiple photos, and add a bit of text or a logo. You may also know that I don’t emphasize templates and presets in my teaching, because I like [...]
I have just finished my Lightroom 5: The Fundamentals and Beyond series! Other than incorporating all the Lightroom 5 new features and changes, this Lightroom 5 FAB series is the same as my Lightroom 4 series. If you would prefer training in just the new Lightroom 5 features and changes, I have also released a shorter [...]