Since I'm taking the next week off, I thought I would repost what is by far my most popular article of 2009 -- "About Your Images and the Lightroom Catalog -- the Library Analogy." If you have already read this, scroll down to the archives at the bottom of this page and check out what else [...]
This isn't Lightroom or Photoshop-related, but since I'm in charge here, I can get away with it! I have really been enjoying Windows 7. I had no plans to upgrade to it from XP, but my computer died and I had to replace it -- right after W7 was released. It is truly a pleasure to [...]
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 [...]
In Lightroom you can hide the top, bottom, left and right panels so that you have more room to show your images. To hide a panel, click on the triangle at the outside center edge of the panel. Click on it again to show it again. There are shortcuts, of course: Tab hides and shows the [...]
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have your thumbnails on one screen, and your full size image on another? Lightroom 1 users thought so and pressed Adobe to provide this functionality. Adobe did so in Lightroom 2. It is very easy to set up: In the Library and Develop modules, on the left side [...]
These days there are two primary digital workflows for photographers: Adobe Bridge/Camera Raw/Photoshop (all packaged into the Photoshop product) and Adobe Lightroom, with Photoshop as a supplemental tool. Both routes are equally powerful, but I would say that the Lightroom route offers the potential for large efficiency gains. This of course is more important if you [...]