Adobe announced Thursday that one of their servers was hacked. According to Adobe, among other compromises, "we believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders. At this time, we do not [...]
I get a fair number of emails from frantic users who have lost some critical part of the Lightroom interface. In this video I show you how to find missing panels, tools, and more. Watch the video to learn not only how to find what you have lost, but also how to hide what you don't [...]
Adobe released Lightroom 5.2 today, with important bug fixes, new camera, lens and tethered capture support. As has become their practice in the first “dot” release (“.2” in this case — there was no “.1”), Adobe has also thrown in a few small but welcome new features. Watch my “What’s New in Lightroom 5.2” video below, [...]
As I mentioned in my last post on Adobe's Photography Creative Cloud announcement, at Photoshop World last week Adobe Product Manager Tom Hogarty demonstrated Lightroom Mobile, an exciting solution now in development that will allow us to seamlessly review and make at least basic adjustments to photos in our Desktop Lightroom catalogs using our iPads or [...]
Adobe announced today at Photoshop World a new more attractive photographer Creative Cloud offering, consisting of Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, 20 GB cloud storage, Behance ProSite membership, and access to online CC training content. This offer will be available the week of September 16 to owners of Photoshop CS3 and newer, for signup through December 31, [...]
Join Charles Needle and me at the peak of autumn color in Seattle's beautiful Japanese Garden, October 25-26, 2013 . In this 2-day workshop, you'll learn how to capture fall colors in pleasing compositions that evoke the spirit of the Garden, and to bring out the best in your photos using Lightroom's Develop module. We will [...]
Believe it or not, sometimes I actually enjoy reading the names of the Adobe Lightroom folks as I wait for Lightroom to start, because I know some of these folks and appreciate what they do. After a couple times, though, I’m ready for something new, so I now display photos: It is relatively easy to change [...]
Have you ever wondered how to turn off (or on) the information that displays over your photos when you are in Loupe view (single-photo view) in Lightroom's Library and Develop modules? The secret is to type the keyboard shortcut "I", for "Information". If no information is showing, typing "I" once displays one set of information about [...]
Adobe announced today the immediate availability of a release candidate for Lightroom 5.2. This has been tested internally, but is released to the Lightroom community early for additional testing and feedback ahead of the official release. You can download Lightroom 5.2 RC on Adobe Labs here. As I usually suggest, if you have no immediate need [...]
Sean McCormack's Essential Development: 20 Great Techniques for Lightroom 5 is out! An update to Sean's Lightroom 4 e-book, it focuses exclusively on developing photos, and is full of great techniques and tips. For only $7, you receive not only a very generous 130+ page e-book, but also 100 of Sean's develop presets. Sean is an [...]
You may know that Adobe has indicated thatthey are working on a way to sync our Lightroom catalog to mobile devices via the cloud. But did you know that you can already do this - or at least if you are using a Mac? Mosaic, a New Hampshire company founded by Gerard Murphy and Andy Young [...]
I am very happy to report that Victoria Bampton's exceptional reference book, Adobe Lightroom 5 - The Missing FAQ, is now available! Victoria is a fellow Adobe Community Professional and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom, the founder of lightroomforums.net, and one of the most knowledgeable Lightroom experts I know. She therefore understands what questions Lightroom [...]