Below are two video tutorials from my Lightroom CC/6 and 5: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series that will teach you how to clean up your files and folders - learn to reorganize them and to resolve "missing file / file cannot be found" issues. The first video, File and Folder Management: Reorganizing, explains how to [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos 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. For photos already in [...]
In this free video tutorial, learn how to use Lightroom's new Reference view for Creative Cloud subscribers. Reference view allows you to display a reference photo on the left as you edit another photo on the right. It's useful anytime you want to match the appearance of photos (white balance, contrast, color, etc). Consider using it when [...]
In this short video for beginners, I provide a brief introduction to Lightroom (6 or Classic). Learn what Lightroom looks like, how it's organized, and what you can do with it. Note that this is not applicable to the new cloud-based Lightroom CC application - click here for an introduction to that "Lightroom CC" program.This is the [...]
Lightroom's Quick Develop panel in the Library module is great for making fast edits to or applying presets to one or many photos without having to go to the Develop module, and for making relative changes to a group of photos - for example, bumping up exposure on all photos by one stop. (There's no other way [...]
You traveled with a laptop and used Lightroom on this laptop to import and work on your photos while you were on the road. Now you're back home and you're wondering how to get the photos along with your work (flags, stars, keywords, editing, etc) into your main Lightroom catalog on your desktop computer. In this [...]
In this recorded webinar I work several photos, showing you many of Lightroom's editing tools. I also show how to copy your work from one photo to others, how to create and apply presets, and how to set new default develop settings. This recording is from 2014 and I used Lightroom 5 in it, but everything [...]
Adobe today released Lightroom 6.6 and CC 2015.6. In addition to support for new cameras, new lens profiles and bug fixes, this free update introduces performance and other improvements for both Creative Cloud (CC) subscribers and 6 owners, and a new feature just for CC subscribers - Guided Upright, which allows you to draw lines on your photo to tell [...]
The most important step to getting the most out of your photos with Lightroom is to master Lightroom's Basic panel. In the 20 minute video below I go through several examples to teach you all aspects of this most important panel in the Develop module. This video is one of the 76 in my Lightroom CC/6 [...]
Today Adobe released a free update to Lightroom CC and 6: CC 2015.5.1 and 6.5.1. This update fixes a few issues introduced in the last update and adds support for two more cameras, the Pentax K-1 and the Sony RX10 III (DSC-RX10M3).To install the update, in Lightroom go to Help>Updates. Creative Cloud subscribers will also find the update on [...]
Update April 2, 2016: Now that April 1 has passed, I'll say that this video was an April Fools' joke. Watch it only if you are up for a laugh! In this short new video tutorial I show you how you can turn a boring photo such as the one below on the left into a stunning [...]
Sometimes when you're preparing your photos for output, whether for print or for your website, you need all of them to be the same aspect ratio, such as 8x10, 5x7 or square. In my latest video tutorial below, learn how to crop them all to the same aspect ratio quickly. In a nutshell: In Grid [...]