If you have a folder in Lightroom such as your Pictures folder, but you are not sure that all of the photos in that folder and its subfolders have been imported in Lightroom, you can have Lightroom check for you! Right-click on the folder, and choose Synchronize Folder. The dialog below will show you how many [...]
Wondering what the Lightroom 4 Beta looks like and/or how to use the new features successfully? I still have some spots left in this FREE 90 minute webinar, Saturday January 28 at 10:00 a.m. PST (6:00 PM GMT.) This is my last one on the Beta! Register here: If you can't attend, you will find a [...]
(Updated 1/30/12) Soft proofing is new in the Develop module of Lightroom 4 (the Beta at this point). It allows you to get a better idea of what your photo will look like in print when printing with profiles, and what it will look like when you export to sRGB or another color space. If your [...]
Do any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn't straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix [...]
To be honest, I don’t download a lot of presets from the internet. I personally have limited mental bandwidth for add-ons, and there are so many out there that they can be hard to sift through. However, I agree that done right, they can add great value. It can be very efficient to use a [...]
In this 65 minute video from my January 11 Lightroom 4 Beta webinar, I give you a tour of the new features, and explain the basics of how to use them. I wish the audio quality were better, but it is what it is -- rest assured that my Lightroom DVD products have higher quality audio [...]
Wondering what the Lightroom 4 Beta looks like and/or how to use the new features successfully? I still have some spots left in this free 90 minute webinar, Saturday January 14 at 9:00 a.m. PST (5:00 PM GMT.) Register here. And stay tuned for many more webinar topics, on both Lightroom and Photoshop!
UPDATE: While this was written during the Lightroom 4 beta release, these instructions and video are completely applicable to the official Lightroom 4 release, Lightroom 5, Lightroom 6 and CC! The Basics panel in the Develop module of the Lightroom 4 Beta may not be the sexiest feature, but the improvements are quite powerful, and the [...]
Here's a good set of introductory videos from Adobe's Julieanne Kost.
Adobe announced tonight the release of its beta version of Lightroom 4. Features and testing are not complete — this release is designed to get broader feedback from the user community before the official release. The Lightroom 4 beta can be downloaded at this link. To give Adobe feedback on features and performance, post in the Lightroom [...]
Six years ago today the first public beta of Lightroom 1 was released. What a great 6 years it has been! I remember when a mentor of mine and fabulous photographer, George DeWolfe, showed our class Lightroom 1. He raved about it and used it all week in class, but he said "Lightroom HAS to have [...]
2012 has started out pretty busy for me, so I haven't had time yet to write any new tutorials, but I wanted to pass along this great list of Lightroom experts to follow on Twitter from pixiq.com. What -- you're not on Twitter? Frankly, I myself am only on Twitter to follow and participate in [...]