Looking for Ideas from You!
I enjoy writing for this blog, but sometimes I temporarily run out of ideas for posts. I'd love to hear some ideas from you! Post them as a comment to this post. Thanks in advance!
Exporting Images to CD/DVD
Hint: click on the title of this post above to see the post larger! You can export images directly to CD or DVD using Lightroom. The feature is a little bit hidden: In the Library module, select your images to export. Click on the Export button At the top, you see the following: Click [...]
Until Early October
I'm headed out this weekend for Missoula, Montana, where I'll be teaching creative techniques and compositing in Photoshop at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. While it is possible that I will post while I am out there, it is unlikely -- so plan to check back the first week of October for new material. In [...]
Lightroom Workshop Coming Up Soon — October 10-11!
I still have a few spots available in my Lightroom Fundamentals Part One workshop in Seattle on October 10-11. New to Lightroom, ready to dive in and learn it well? Already been using Lightroom for quite a while but looking to fill in the gaps in your knowledge? If so, this workshop could be for you: [...]
Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 Are Now Available
If you are not prompted to update when you open LR and Bridge/Photoshop, in these programs go up to Help>Check for Updates. Downlaod the .exe (PC) or .dmg (Mac) file to your desktop, then double-click to launch the installation. When it is done, you can throw away the Adobe folder the install process placed on your [...]
Cropping with a Fixed Aspect Ratio
In Lightroom you can restrict your crops to be a specific aspect ratio, such as 5×7, 8×10, or the same aspect ratio as your original. To do so, select the crop tool from the toolbar (R), click on the double up/down arrow next to the padlock to reveal the aspect menu, and choose your desired proportions. [...]
Lightroom Adjustment Brush Finesse – Using the Flow Setting
Did you know that the adjustment brush allows you to slowly build up the amount of change you apply to an image, and also slowly back off on a change you made? The secret is in the Flow and Density sliders. Density controls how much of the specified adjustment can be applied in total, and Flow [...]
Seattle Area Lightroom Demonstration September 10
I will be doing another of my popular two hour Lightroom demonstrations on September 10 at 6:30 pm at Shoreline College. Click here for more information. Email me at laura@laurashoe.com to RSVP -- I'd love to see you there!
Updating Lightroom with Changes Made in Bridge and Camera Raw
These days I encourage students to leave Bridge and Camera Raw behind and use Lightroom for all of their basic image editing needs (resorting to Photoshop when heavy guns are required). But if you do find a reason to use Bridge and Camera Raw, you'll discover that Lightroom does not automatically see and show any Bridge [...]
Plug-Ins Galore!
Last week I wrote about Jeffrey Friedl's plug-in that allows you to export images directly to Facebook. There are lots of other great third-party plug-ins out there. But how can one find out about them? Easy, of course, or I wouldn't be writing about it! In the Library module of Lightroom, click on the Export button [...]
Moving Through Your Image in Lightroom While Zoomed In — Page Down
If you plan to print your image, I recommend that you do all of your clean up work zoomed into 1:1. You should also review all of your local adjustments at this zoom ratio to make sure that your edges aren't obvious. Here's an easy way to move through your image while you are [...]
The Perfect Exposure, or When Good Things Don’t Look So Good, or Why You Should Expose to the Right
I wrote about the importance of exposing as brightly as possible, short of blowing out important highlights in my post “What Lurks in the Shadows: The Case of the Black Cat”. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t. I thought I would show you an example of a perfect exposure that in fact looks [...]