You may or may not have noticed that when you are using the spot removal tool, you can work in either Heal or Clone mode. Let’s take a look at the difference. Here is an image before any work: (c) A. Nowacka First I clicked on the spot removal tool to select it, and then on [...]
Have you ever thought (as I did today) that you would burst into tears or have to break open a bottle (before noon!) if you lost Lightroom work you did or images you captured? If so, you are going too long between backups. Let’s first go back to a public library analogy for Lightroom: if the [...]
You may be using a lot more hard drive space with Lightroom than you need to be. There are three major opportunity areas: catalog backups, 1:1 previews, and deleting rejects. Catalog Backups My Lightroom catalog is about 500 MB. (To see how large yours is, go to Edit>Catalog Settings on the PC, or Lightroom>Catalog Settings on [...]
Adobe gave us a glimpse of CS5 this morning. The full price is $699. Users with CS2, CS3 and CS4 will be eligible for $199 upgrade pricing. The product is expected to ship mid-May. Click HERE for a summary of what is new. And click HERE for some videos. I haven't digested everything, but so far [...]
Adobe has announced the availability of release candidates for Lightroom 2.7 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.7. Release candidates are not official releases, and are still in testing. However, if you have one of the cameras that these releases introduce support for, you may want to download them now. […]
I knew it wouldn’t be long before folks started creating wild presets with the new point tone curve in Lightroom 3 Beta 2. Here are SOME and SOME MORE from Jeffrey Friedl. (UPDATE: This is applicable to later versions of Lightroom as well.) Play with it yourself: In the Tone Curve panel in the Develop module, [...]
Adobe announced today that on April 12 it will reveal in a live online event what is new in Photoshop CS5. You can register for the event HERE. They have not announced an actual release date for the software yet. Since I am more focused on Lightroom these days, my initial reaction is "already"? CS4 is [...]
Almost five months to the day after releasing Lightroom 3 Beta, Adobe has announced a second Lightroom 3 Beta release. Whether this is only intended as a means to gather and incorporate significantly more user feedback for the final release, or possibly also to buy time to incorporate more new features into the official Lightroom 3 [...]
Rocky Mountain School of Photography is taking its Lightroom for Photographers workshop on the road in 2010, and Austin and Minneapolis are our destinations! Join me for a 6 day workshop covering all aspects of Lightroom, with plenty of time for in-class practice, Q&A and constructive critiques of your work. Normally you would have to pay [...]
Many photographers like to rename their original image files. I personally don't -- I look to the folder name and image keywords I have applied to tell me about a photo rather than the file name, so the camera-generated file name is fine for me. There is no right or wrong on this -- I suggest [...]
UPDATE: The shortcut in Lightroom 6 and CC 2015 is just F. While I know a fair amount about Lightroom, I am always picking up more from my fellow bloggers. Here's a quick but useful shortcut from Sean McCormack over at Lightroom-Blog.com: To see your image and nothing but your image, type Shift-Ctl-F on the PC, [...]
Last week Lightroom guru Sean McCormack released a new web engine plug-in, LRB Exhibition. I have to say, I am impressed — in less than an hour I was able to use Lightroom to create a complete website that I would not hesitate to show someone who might judge my work. The plug-in accomodates a home [...]