Lightroom can perform amazingly fast searches for your photos. When I search for my winter tree photos in my catalog of over 30,000 photos, Lightroom will display the results before I can even snap my fingers. Of course I have to have taken the time to keyword my photos first! Lightroom can search on more [...]
Lightroom is a fabulous program, but it can be daunting. Here are a few resources to get you started with getting your photos and videos into Lightroom. (This is applicable to Lightroom Classic and earlier versions of it - Lightroom 3, 4, 5, 6, and CC 2015. It is not applicable to the new cloud-based [...]
Do any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn't straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix [...]
In this Lightroom and Photoshop video tutorial, I demonstrate how to copy eyes, faces or heads (or anything) from one photo into another and transform them to fit. This sweet cat of mine died a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to make a print of this image. However, the eyes were out of focus [...]
If you watched my video tutorial on the Custom Print Package in Lightroom, you know how to make a collage of photographs. Here’s an example I put together quickly, leaving the background color white, and adding a grey stroke border to the images (the black frame is not part of the result): You could make your [...]
I am working on a Lightroom 3 training DVD, which I will be offering for sale, hopefully soon. The concept is a "Lightroom Workshop on DVD". It is a series of many videos, several hours long in total, designed for beginning and intermediate Lightroom users. I cover just about everything I teach in my two-day Lightroom [...]
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 [...]
I used the image below in a a post on exposure a few months back. A reader asked me to show how I developed the image, so I have produced a video showing my technique. Click HERE to view it. To develop this image, I use the Basic, Tone Curve and HSL panels, as well as [...]
9/2011: Here's an updated video tutorial on how to use the spot removal tool to retouch photos in Lightroom. I also show how to use it to reduce the appearance of circles under eyes. This is from my Lightroom 3 Fundamentals and Beyond video series, available as a download or DVD. (Update: My editing skills and audio [...]