Lots of you are wondering which Lightroom application is best for you - Lightroom Classic (which is the newer subscription-version of Lightroom 6) or the streamlined cloud-based Lightroom (CC). Watch the 80-minute recording from my recent webinar to learn what they have in common, how they differ, and to get my perspective on the two. [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos' and videos' metadata so that when you share these photos with the outside world, the 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. In Lightroom Classic and in Lightroom [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic 9.1 last night. This is a small update, with support for new cameras, new lens profiles and bug fixes (including for some macOS Catalina related bugs). There are no new features. Updates for Lightroom (CC) Desktop, iOS and Android were also released, with new features - see my Cloud-Based Lightroom Desktop [...]
In the video tutorial below I show you how to upgrade to Lightroom Classic 9 from any prior version. We'll go through what you should do before upgrading, how to resolve any issues that come up while upgrading, and then how to clean up afterwards (renaming your catalog, deleting the old catalog, getting your dock [...]
With Lightroom Classic 9.0, we can now, for any number of images selected, export multiple file types at once - for example, a full-size JPEG for printing and a small JPEG for online sharing. Unfortunately the addition of this new functionality to the Export dialog also makes simple exports more confusing. In the video tutorial below [...]
In this article I’ll explain how to update to Lightroom Classic 9 from any prior version. The process is usually very straightforward and takes just a few clicks, but it does require that Lightroom upgrade your Lightroom catalog, so in this article I’ll prepare you for what can occasionally go awry. If you prefer to [...]
In conjunction with Adobe's annual MAX conference being held this week, cloud-based Lightroom Desktop 3.0 has been released with lots of great new features, support for new cameras, and more. New features include greatly expanded Export (Save To) options, interactive editing tutorials, content-aware Fill Edges for panoramas and more. Updates were also released for Lightroom [...]
Do you know what the histogram is and are you using it in-camera when you shoot and in Lightroom as you edit images? The histogram is a graph that gives you lots of information about your exposure and tones in your image, and I recommend learning about it and using it both in-camera and in [...]
Whether you use Lightroom Classic, Lightroom 6 or the cloud-based Lightroom, sometimes you'll want to view photos from more than source together in the grid, whether the sources are folders, dates, collections or albums. It's easy - select the ones you want using the selection methods that work for files, and then the images for [...]
Every week someone comes to me panicking - you open Lightroom and see that just about EVERYTHING has changed - the Folders panel isn't there with your nicely organized folders, there are no keywording panels on the right, there are no Library, Develop or other modules, etc - or you experience the opposite - you're [...]
Adobe released Lightroom Classic (CC) version 8.3 today. In addition to bug fixes and new lens profiles, there are two new features - Texture for enhancing or smoothing out detail and Flat Field Correction for correcting for lens shading. Updates for Lightroom (CC) Desktop, iOS and Android were also released - see my Lightroom CC [...]
Life used to be so simple - there was one Lightroom program, and the only question was whether you were using version 5 or 6 (or another number). Starting in October 2017, there are now there are two Lightroom programs, and their names have been a moving target - most recently changing today. It's important [...]
