I got this question from readers twice in one day last week, so I thought a blog post was in order. It’s the ultimate in Fall/Spring cleaning — essentially you will build a new closet, put copies of everything in it ( nicely organized), and then throw everything away from the old one. This may not [...]
Lightroom 3 is the latest version of Adobe's image management and enhancement program designed specifically for photographers. With its streamlined workflow, database capabilities and powerful global and local image enhancement tools, it has become a very powerful yet relatively intuitive program that can benefit most photographers. In this lecture I will discuss what makes Lightroom so [...]
I wrote about basic techniques of fixing color casts / setting white balance in Lightroom in my Getting Rid of the Winter Blues post. I thought I would show you some additional tricks for dealing with mixed lighting, using the photo below. It is from a Lightroom workshop student of mine, Jim Levitt (thanks, Jim!). [...]
In my first Lightroom Fall Cleaning Post, one of my 9 suggested tasks was deleting unused keywords. In this post I will explain how to clean up duplicate and misspelled keywords. We will use the Keyword List panel, which is below the Keywording panel on the left in Lightroom’s Library module. If you have a [...]
For this week’s Lightroom tip, I am resurrecting one from a couple years ago: I recommend that you do all of your Lightroom clean up and retouching work zoomed into 1:2 or 1:1 (the latter for larger prints). You should also review all of your local adjustments at these zoom ratios to make sure that [...]
The prereleases came out a while ago on labs.adobe.com, but now the official versions of Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are out. If you have Lightroom and/or Photoshop set to automatically check for updates, they will prompt you next time you open Lightroom 3 or Photoshop CS5. Otherwise, in your software go to Help>Check for [...]
Since I am sure that you’ll be busy cleaning your closets in the Spring(!), I thought that the beginning of Fall would be a good time for you to get rid of your Lightroom clutter. Here are some essential Lightroom clean-up tasks: 1. Delete most of your Lightroom catalog backups. If you back up [...]
In my first post on sharpening in Lightroom, I discussed the three steps in the sharpening workflow, and went into depth on how to do capture sharpening using the Detail panel in the Develop module. I mentioned that the second stage in the sharpening workflow is creative sharpening. This is an optional stage, in which local [...]
Do you like Lightroom’s print layout capabilities, but don’t have a printer to print to, or want to just share your design electronically? No problem — design your layout in the Print module, and print to a jpeg instead of to a printer. Send the jpeg out for someone else to print, or email it [...]
Sean McCormack over at lrbplugins.com has recently released his new Lightroom preset pack. According to Sean, it is a set of 18 presets “that range from B&W to heavily processed colour looks for people photography. It borrows a lot from current fashion trends, but is equally at home with bands, portraits and fashion. Inspiration for each [...]
You may have read my two posts about the value of exposing to the right in digital photography (also known as ETTR), What Lurks in the Shadows: The Case of the Black Cat and The Perfect Exposure, Or, When Things Don’t Look So Good. In the second one, I show you an example of where I nail my exposure [...]
Adobe recently announced the upcoming release of this new software to manage images across devices via the cloud. Their initial target audience is point-and-shoot jpeg shooters, but it will almost certainly grow to include raw support, Lightroom integration, etc... As the first version is only available for the Mac (Windows to follow in 2012), I can't [...]