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 [...]
If you have ever tried to find a lens profile in the Lens Corrections panel for lenses for an Olympus, Sony, Fuji, or other mirrorless or compact camera, you know that there are none available. That said, you don't have to create a custom lens profile. Photographs from these cameras are too distorted to use without [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lightroom's spot removal tool with its incorporated advanced healing brush is great for getting rid of spots and some objects, as well as for retouching tasks such as reducing the appearance of wrinkles and softening skin. Watch the two video tutorials that Adobe asked me to make last year on how to use this tool. In the first video, [...]
Lightroom 5 has brought a surge of reports from users that one or more of their panels have gone missing - most often the Basic panel (white balance, exposure and other tone adjustments, clarity, saturation and vibrance). Now that I have switched to a Mac, I finally understand why this surge is occurring - there's a [...]
In this sample video tutorial from my Lightroom 5: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series, I show you all the different ways to view Before and After in Lightroom: Working with the History panel Using the "\" key Toggling on and off specific panel and tool work The Y/Y button I also show you how [...]
In this video tutorial I show you how to easily brighten, whiten, and fix flaws in teeth, using Lightroom's adjustment brush and spot removal tool. (This video was made with Lightroom 4 or 5, but is applicable to CC and 6 as well.) For best quality, hit Play, then click on the Youtube sprocket wheel. [...]
Sometimes it's fun to take photos a little over the edge. In this video tutorial, I show you how to create a bit of a faux-HDR effect in the Develop module in Lightroom, adding a lot of light into the shadows of your photos, and punching up color and edge definition, using Basic panel settings, the [...]
A small light in your subject's eyes reflective of the sun or other light source can really add life to your portraits. If these catch lights aren't there naturally, you can add them using Lightroom. The technique I show in this video tutorial uses the adjustment brush, with positive Exposure, and sometimes positive Shadows and negative [...]