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. [...]
Sometimes it's handy to be able to see two or more folders of photos together in Lightroom when you are in Grid View (G) in the Library Module. This is simply a matter of using the Folders panel to select more than one folder. If the folders are all next to each other, click on 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 [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the official release for Lightroom 5.3. This free update to Lightroom 5 contains bug fixes, new camera support, new lens profiles and a few new Develop shortcuts. When you open Lightroom, you should be prompted to update — download the file and double-click on it to run it. [...]
Update: Adobe has extended this deal through December 31. Today December 31 is the last day of Adobe's Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deal for people who don't yet own at least Photoshop CS3+ on the Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography Program, which includes: Photoshop CC Lightroom 5 (and updates) 20GB of online storage Behance ProSite [...]
Do you spend a lot of time searching through your folders in Lightroom, looking for particular photos? If so, it's time to add keywords to them -- words or phrases that you can then find your photos based on. In this short video tutorial I discuss three easy ways to add keywords: in the Import dialog [...]
Update April 2014: $9.99 has become the “going rate” for the “Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography program”, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom. A Creative Cloud subscription also now gives you unlimited syncing from your desktop catalog to Lightroom mobile for the iPad. This new app and Lightroom may be justification enough for you for the $9.99/month price [...]
Several months ago Adobe announced the Photoshop Photography deal for owners of Photoshop CS3 or later, through December 31, 2013. Now for Black Friday, today through December 2, 2013, ANYONE can get a subscription for $9.99/month, with an annual plan! If you have been wanting to get Photoshop, but weren't up for the $19.99/month regular price [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the release candidate for Lightroom 5.3. Release candidates are made available before official releases in order to get broader community testing and feedback. This release contain bug fixes, new camera support, new lens profiles and a few new Develop shortcuts. My general recommendation regarding release candidates is for [...]
If you want to experiment with different versions of develop work on a photo, virtual copies and/or snapshots are two great ways to do this -- all without having to create a second file on your hard drive. Snapshots allow you to save your work at different points in time so that you can easily [...]
Chromatic aberration sounds technical and beyond the grasp of most of us, but it's simply color fringing that some lenses create in our photos: It can be easily fixed by checking the "Remove Chromatic Aberration" checkbox in the Lens Corrections panel. Watch this short video for more about chromatic aberration, how to fix it, and how [...]
It's easy to create simple black, white or transparent photo borders in Lightroom, using the Effects panel in the Develop module. The Effects panel is on the right side, towards the bottom of your panels. Set the Style to Paint Overlay, so that highlights don't show through your border. 1. Black film-style border Set Amount to [...]