Upright is a new automatic feature for straightening photos and correcting perspective. In the video below I show you how to use Upright and how it interacts with the Crop tool. I also introduce the new grids and guides available in both the Library and Develop modules of the Lightroom 5 Beta. [UPDATE: This tutorial is [...]
The Radial Filter tool in Lightroom 5 (and now 6 and CC) is great for making local changes to your photo that affect either the outside or inside of an oval or circular area -- a classic example is creating a vignette effect to darken the edges of your photo and to bring attention to the center. [...]
Watch my video tutorial below for how to use all of the new features in the Spot Removal tool in the Lightroom 5 beta — including the new advanced healing brush with which you can click and drag to define a non-circular area andwhich is great for both removing objects and doing retouching, and for the [...]
Watch my video below for highlights of what's new in the Lightroom 5 Beta. More detailed video tutorials on the new Lightroom 5 features are available at this link. For better quality, hit Play, and then click on the sprocket wheel in the bottom right and choose 720/HD. Watch more Lightroom 5 Beta videos. Read about [...]
Release Summary Adobe announced the release of the beta version of Lightroom 5 on April 15. Download it for free from Adobe Labs here . Note that for your protection against bugs and changes, you will not be able to upgrade your Lightroom 4 catalog until the official release of Lightroom 5. I would suggest importing [...]
Do you want your skies bluer, faces less red, or other colors in your photo more or less intense or lighter or darker? In Lightroom this sometimes requires painting with the adjustment brush, but it often can be accomplished much more quickly with Lightroom's HSL/Color panel. In this video tutorial from my Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals [...]
Just a quick heads up that Craft & Vision has a new e-book out - and it is free! It is 45 pages, with articles by 6 authors, with 9 unique ways to improve your photography. I haven't read it myself yet, but based on my prior experience with Craft & Vision books, it is worth [...]
Adobe has announced that the official release of Lightroom 4.4 is now available. If next time you open Lightroom, it doesn't prompt you to update, go to Help>Check for Updates. Download the installation package, and then double-click on it to run it. (Many users skip this last step, and therefore in fact never update Lightroom!) This [...]
In the past I have used iCloud to transfer photos taken on my iPhone and iPad over to my main computer, and then I have imported them into Lightroom. However, there is an even easier way to copy them to your computer and import them into Lightroom -- simply plug your iPhone or iPad into your [...]
In Lightroom, the strip of photos along the bottom of the screen in each module is called the filmstrip. Here are a few tips for working with it: The filmstrip shows whatever photos you have selected in the Library module — a folder, a collection, or a catalog selection. You can navigate through your photos in [...]
If you want to add text or a graphic to your photos, use Lightroom's watermarking functionality. This is available when you export copies of your photos, and when you create output in the Print, Slideshow and Web modules. (You can't watermark your master photos.) Below is a video tutorial on using the watermark editor to create, save [...]
In the video below, I show you how to create these cool picture-in-picture page layouts in Lightroom's Book module. If you're not interested in making a photo book, remember, you can export your Book pages as individual JPEGS to share electronically or to re-import and print. Thank you to my workshop [...]