Do you know what the histogram is and are you using it in-camera when you shoot and in Lightroom as you edit images? The histogram is a graph that gives you lots of information about your exposure and tones in your image, and I recommend learning about it and using it both in-camera and in [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic (CC) version 8.3 today. In addition to bug fixes and new lens profiles, there are two new features - Texture for enhancing or smoothing out detail and Flat Field Correction for correcting for lens shading. Updates for Lightroom (CC) Desktop, iOS and Android were also released - see my Lightroom CC [...]
If you've used Lightroom Classic's adjustment brush (or "brush" in the cloud-based Lightroom), you've probably wondered why it starts out with some sliders not at zero and with a particular brush size, feathering, etc.. In this very short video tutorial I'll show you how to set your own default settings in the brush, graduated filter [...]
If your iPhone 7+, 8+, X, Xs, Xs Max or Xr camera is set to capture depth information, now in Lightroom Classic CC v. 8 use Depth Range Mask within the graduated filter, radial filter and adjustment brush to confine your edits based on distance to the camera. For instructions on how to capture images [...]
A lot of my free video tutorials are buried in "What's New in Lightroom X.X" posts, so I'm going to start bringing them to the surface in separate posts. Up first: Range Mask is an excellent tool for isolating edits that you want to make to a particular color range or range of tones in [...]
If you ever photograph buildings or other subjects looking up at them or your camera isn't parallel to them or isn't level, you can benefit from Lightroom's transform tools for correcting perspective and leveling photos. In Lightroom 6 .6+ and Classic, these tools are found in the Transform panel, and include one-click fixes with Upright, Guided [...]
Have you noticed that when you open the adjustment brush, graduated filter or radial filter, one or more of the sliders is set to a value other than zero? This can be handy if it's a good starting point for your planned work, but otherwise it can be annoying. Read on for how to change this [...]
In this video tutorial for Lightroom Classic, as well as for Lightroom 4, 5 and 6, I show you how to shift a color to another, and how to completely replace it. We'll use the HSL panel, and then a few powerful options in the adjustment brush. This video does assume basic experience with the [...]
Adobe today introduced powerful new profiles to all applications in the Lightroom ecosystem - Lightroom Classic, the cloud-based Lightroom CC desktop application, Lightroom CC for iOS and Android, Lightroom CC Web, as well as to Adobe Camera Raw. These profiles provide a starting point for your images in terms of color and tonality. Few users [...]
The Vibrance and Saturation sliders in Lightroom's Basic panel will both intensify colors in your photos. Saturation is an equal-opportunity, non-discrimatory control - it will saturate all colors in your photo equally, even if they start out at different levels of intensity. This is a great control to use if you want to give a quick and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
