People often use the vignetting sliders in the Lens Corrections panel (or Lens Correction Vignetting in the Vignettes panel of Lightroom 2) to darken or lighten the edges of their photos for creative purposes. Is there anything wrong with this? If it looks good, then definitely not. However, this Lens Corrections vignetting is designed specifically for [...]
Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription Plan Adobe announced at its recent Max conference, the availability of a new “Creative Cloud” pricing of its products. For a $49.99 individual / $69.99 workgroup monthly subscription, you will gain acess to always up-to-date versions of all of the following products ((I am quoting from this post from Adobe): Desktop Applications — Every tool [...]
Have you ever searched for a photo for what seemed like hours, checking in each folder, until you finally just gave up? If so, you have felt the pain and frustration that comes from not having keyworded your photos. Keywording isn't the fun part of working in Lightroom, but if you invest the time to do [...]
If you have been following advice from me and others, you are taking the time to keyword your photos using the Keywording panel, so that you can find them later. Now it is time to organize these keywords. The Keyword List panel, which is below the Keywording panel, shows you all the keywords you have ever [...]
Newer users often don’t realize that the Folders panel in the Lightroom Library module can be used to rearrange your photos and folders. Below are some tips for using it. Note that whatever you do with this panel is in fact affecting your hard drive — you are just doing the work from within Lightroom. If [...]
Something in Lightroom isn’t working, or you can’t figure out how to do something and your deadline is approaching. You have googled the issue, to no avail. Who can you turn to for free troubleshooting help? I highly recommend lightroomforums.net — when Lightroom has me stumped, this is where I go. The moderators are excellent and [...]
I love Lightroom’s adjustment brush, because it allows me to make local changes to my photos very precisely. I can lighten or darken a particular area, add or reduce contrast or saturation, add or reduce clarity, sharpen or blur. I can even add or change the color of an area. Or I can do a combination [...]
As you are working on a photo up close, it can sometimes be useful to see a second copy of the photo zoomed out so that you have a better perspective on your work. For example, while brightening the whites of eyes or teeth in portraits, it is hard to know if you are brightening too [...]
When you are trying to match the appearance of two photos in Lightroom, it sure would be nice to be able to see them side by side as you work on one or both. In my last post, I talked about Compare View — but it is in the Library module, not the Develop module. [...]
In my tutorial on jpeg quality, I displayed two photos side by side and zoomed in on them together to compare them up close. A reader asked me how I did this — thanks to this reader for giving me the idea for Friday’s Lightroom Quick Tip. In the Library module, select your two photos (click [...]
Anytime you create a JPEG file using Lightroom’s Export dialog (or any other method), the file is compressed — information is thrown away in order to make the file smaller. How much is determined by the Quality setting or, in Lightroom 3 or later, if you choose instead, the Limit File Size setting. The big benefit [...]
Anywhere you see a color selection square in Lightroom, such as for page background color in the Print module, you can choose a color not only from the color picker that comes up when you click on it, but also a color from one of your photos. How? Simply click in the main color selection area [...]