As I have written before, I find myself still discovering cool hidden features of Lightroom. This one I picked up from Sean McCormack's new Craft & Vision e-book, Essential Development (which as I wrote in my last post, you should definitely check out). The traditional way to set the size of the spot removal circle is [...]
Imagine being able to purchase a 120 page e-book full of great Lightroom Develop techniques and tips from talented professional photographer and Lightroom expert, Sean McCormack, along with 85 of his Lightroom presets, for only $6. Once again, Craft & Vision has made the unimaginable real, in this new release from Sean: Essential Development: 20 Great [...]
My goal in this post is to give you a couple suggestions for managing your files if you choose to shoot in raw+JPEG mode, capturing both file types for every photo you take, and if you wish to include and manage them both in Lightroom. As I discussed in my previous post, Shooting in Raw + [...]
This article is for Lightroom Classic, Lightroom 6 and earlier versions. It does not apply to the cloud-based Lightroom. Have you ever had something unexpected happen to you in Lightroom, multiple times, but not taken the time to focus on it and understand what was going on? I am amazed sometimes at what I can [...]
My goal today was to write a post on suggestions for managing your raw and JPEG photos if you shoot in raw+JPEG mode, including the option to automatically stack them together, but I realized that I haven’t written yet about the fundamentals of stacking photos — first things first! Lightroom Photo Stacking Basics Stacking two [...]
Adobe tonight announced the availability of Lightroom 4.2, a free update for Lightroom 4 owners. This release does not add new features, but it does address some performance issues with Lightroom 4.1, and also adds support for several new cameras and lenses, tethering for more cameras, and several bug fixes. If you open Lightroom 4 and [...]
Whether it is the beginning of fall for you, or the beginning of spring, a change of seasons is a perfect time to get your photos and Lightroom catalog organized. Here are some tutorials from the past year that will help you get your Lightroom "closet" cleaned up: It's Time for Some Fall Cleaning - 9 [...]
More and more photographers are aware these days that raw files provide higher quality information and more flexibility in processing than JPEGs do. For those of you convinced to shoot raw files, your camera most likely gives you a choice to save just a raw file, or to save both a raw file and a JPEG [...]
Wow, this was a surprise today (at least to me!) Nik Software, maker of professional photo editing software and the (great) SnapSeed mobile app, has been purchased by Google. According to the New York Times, "it is Google’s latest defensive move against Facebook and part of its strategy to become a photo-sharing hub." The New York [...]
I find that half the battle in writing a blog is coming up with ideas for what to write about. I do my best to come up with ideas that I think will be helpful to you, but I'm curious -- what do YOU want to learn or read about? Please leave a comment below with [...]
Many of you know that I am a fan of adding keywords to photos in Lightroom, so that you can find them quickly later. In this post I will go over some shortcuts to help you add keywords more quickly. With a photo selected (or group of photos selected in Grid view): Ctl/Cmd-K will open up [...]
Hopefully most of you will never need this post, because you have an effective backup strategy, that backs up both your Lightroom catalog and your image files. I have written about this in the following posts: Avoiding Lightroom-Generated Headaches and Heart Attacks I Would Cry If I Lost the Work I Did Today: How to Back [...]