Yesterday, Adobe announced the availability of Photoshop Touch on iPhones through the App Store, and on Android phones, through Google Play, for $4.99. (It has been available on tablets for a while now.) According to Photoshop Product Manager, Stephen Neilson, "much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the release candidates for Lightroom 4.4. Release candidates are made available before official releases in order to get broader community testing and feedback. This release contain bug fixes, new camera support, as well as much-improved support for cameras with Fuji X Trans sensors. (Check out the quality difference [...]
It's not too late to sign up for my one-day March 2 workshop here in Seattle. You'll learn to make great photo books and PDF's using Lightroom 4's new Book module. Sign up at Photo Center Northwest. I hope you can join us!
I recently got a chance to try out X-Rite's Colormunki Photo device. This allows you to not only profile your monitor (and projector), but also to create printer / paper profiles. What I particularly like about it is that it is very easy to use, and the process has very few steps. The Colormunki Photo runs [...]
In this Lightroom video tutorial, I'll show you how to change and refine your page layouts. After an overview of page layout options, you'll learn how to choose a page layout and refine it with cell padding, add two page spreads, and select and change layouts of multiple pages at once. I then cover flagging layouts [...]
I have to confess that I don’t read many photography magazines. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, it’s simply that I don’t often have the mental bandwidth for them. Whether this is due to age (I’m not telling) or just information overload, I find that I have to be selective in what I pick up. [...]
I haven't written many tutorials about Lightroom Book module on this blog, so I thought I'd share a video tutorial on some basic skills: swapping and replacing photos, usage badges, adding more photos to your book collection, removing photos, selecting and moving one or more pages, adding and removing pages, zooming a photo to fill, and [...]
Recently I wrote about using stacks in Lightroom: Reduce Visual Clutter and Organize Your Photos by Using Stacks in Lightroom. As I mentioned, I use stacks to collapse photos that are pieces of a panorama, bracketed exposures for HDR, and other very similar shots. Sometimes these have been captured very closely in time. In fact, you [...]
My favorite layout style in Lightroom's Print module is the Custom Package, which allows us to layout multiple photos on the page. These can be laid out on top of each other, they can overlap, text can be added, etc.. Here are a couple examples -- a tryptic that I designed to print, and a collage [...]
My last post was on how to make a new copyright preset, to use as you are importing your 2013 photos. But what if you had already imported 2013 photos without this information, or you want to do the same for earlier years? Victoria Bampton, aka the Lightroom Queen, has written a post explaining how to [...]
Whether you had one for 2012 or not, now is the perfect time to create a 2013 copyright preset, that will add your copyright information to your photos’ metadata automatically when you import them. Here’s a re-post of my article from last year — anywhere you see 2012 below, substitute with 2013! In the Import dialog, [...]
Happy New Year, everyone! I have this very strong feeling that 2013 is going to be a great year, and I am hoping that this is for you as well as me, for the world in general -- and for Lightroom, too! Thank you so much for helping to make 2012 such a rich and rewarding [...]
