Join me for this free, live, worldwide online workshop with creativeLIVE on Lightroom's Output Modules -- March 18-20, 2013. Learn how to make beautiful prints, photo books, slideshows and web galleries in Lightroom. In addition to teaching you how to use Lightroom's output modules, I'll demystify critical output concepts that often confuse and intimidate photographers: color [...]
I was honored to find out this week that I have been awarded the Adobe Community Professional designation for 2013! Adobe Community Professionals are a small worldwide team of highly skilled users from across the whole range of Adobe products, who contribute at high levels to supporting Adobe software users. I hope to continue to earn [...]
Here's an idea for a cool Book photo layout in Lightroom -- choose a multi-photo page layout, and use different parts of the same photo in each cell! Select your page by clicking on it, click on the downward triangle and choose a multi-photo layout: Drag your single photo from the Filmstrip up into each of [...]
Yesterday, Adobe announced the availability of Photoshop Touch on iPhones through the App Store, and on Android phones, through Google Play, for $4.99. (It has been available on tablets for a while now.) According to Photoshop Product Manager, Stephen Neilson, "much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the release candidates for Lightroom 4.4. 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, as well as much-improved support for cameras with Fuji X Trans sensors. (Check out the quality difference [...]
It's not too late to sign up for my one-day March 2 workshop here in Seattle. You'll learn to make great photo books and PDF's using Lightroom 4's new Book module. Sign up at Photo Center Northwest. I hope you can join us!
I recently got a chance to try out X-Rite's Colormunki Photo device. This allows you to not only profile your monitor (and projector), but also to create printer / paper profiles. What I particularly like about it is that it is very easy to use, and the process has very few steps. The Colormunki Photo runs [...]
In this Lightroom video tutorial, I'll show you how to change and refine your page layouts. After an overview of page layout options, you'll learn how to choose a page layout and refine it with cell padding, add two page spreads, and select and change layouts of multiple pages at once. I then cover flagging layouts [...]
I have to confess that I don’t read many photography magazines. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, it’s simply that I don’t often have the mental bandwidth for them. Whether this is due to age (I’m not telling) or just information overload, I find that I have to be selective in what I pick up. [...]
I haven't written many tutorials about Lightroom Book module on this blog, so I thought I'd share a video tutorial on some basic skills: swapping and replacing photos, usage badges, adding more photos to your book collection, removing photos, selecting and moving one or more pages, adding and removing pages, zooming a photo to fill, and [...]
Recently I wrote about using stacks in Lightroom: Reduce Visual Clutter and Organize Your Photos by Using Stacks in Lightroom. As I mentioned, I use stacks to collapse photos that are pieces of a panorama, bracketed exposures for HDR, and other very similar shots. Sometimes these have been captured very closely in time. In fact, you [...]
My favorite layout style in Lightroom's Print module is the Custom Package, which allows us to layout multiple photos on the page. These can be laid out on top of each other, they can overlap, text can be added, etc.. Here are a couple examples -- a tryptic that I designed to print, and a collage [...]