Lightroom 3.2 and Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 are available as release candidates on Adobe Labs. (Programs are available as release candidates to allow for additional user testing before official releases are made.) These have support for 12 new cameras, 50 new lens profiles, bug fixes, and in Lightroom only, publishing to Facebook. Click HERE for Adobe's [...]
I am working on a Lightroom 3 training DVD, which I will be offering for sale, hopefully soon. The concept is a "Lightroom Workshop on DVD". It is a series of many videos, several hours long in total, designed for beginning and intermediate Lightroom users. I cover just about everything I teach in my two-day Lightroom [...]
Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, has just recently released her Missing FAQ book updated for Lightroom 3. She is an administrator and Lightroom Guru on lightroomforums.net, and is one of the most knowledgeable Lightroom users and troubleshooters I know — if I don’t know the answer to a question myself, I often turn to Victoria [...]
I still have some spots open for this workshop next weekend at Studio R in Seattle — I hope you can join us! We will be using Lightroom 3. Lightroom Fundamentals In this two day hands-on workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom 3, concentrating on the Library and Develop modules where you manage, edit and enhance [...]
If you have upgraded to Lightroom 3, when you look at images in the Develop module that you have adjusted with a previous version of Lightroom, you will see an exclamation point in the bottom right: This is a signal to you that the image is continuing to use your settings from the old (pre-Lightroom 3) [...]
Looking to blur out a background to reduce distractions? In Lightroom 3, use the adjustment brush with Sharpness at -100. If this is not enough blur, do it again: click on New to start a new adjustment, and paint a second time. Also consider using the graduated filter with -100 Sharpness to simulate a shallower [...]
I will be giving a free demonstration Tuesday, June 15 at 5:30 pm at the Ballard Library in Seattle. Come see what's new in Lightroom 3!
I was going to compile a list of Lightroom 3 resources for you, but there are many out there already. Click HERE for a very good one from Wade Heninger. And HERE is another by Sean McCormack at Lightroom-Blog.
Adobe announced at 9 pm PDT tonight that Lightroom 3 is now officially for sale at www.adobe.com. You can see Adobe’s official list of feature additions and enhancements from product manager Tom Hogarty HERE. Adobe continues to show that they are committed to continuing to make our post-processing workflow as efficient and painless as possible and [...]
I love Survey View for viewing and comparing several images side-by-side. In the Library Module, select multiple images, then click on the Survey View icon in the toolbar or type the shortcut N. In Survey View, your mouse is not the zoom tool, so it is not quite as easy to zoom in on [...]
Tom Hogarty at Adobe demonstrates in IN THIS VIDEO the new lens correction features coming to Camera Raw 6, which ships with Photoshop CS5, and Lightroom 3. This includes vertical and horizontal transformations to correct perspective lines, as well as profiles that automatically correct lens issues – chromatic aberration, pin cushion, barrel and wave distortions and [...]
You may or may not have noticed that when you are using the spot removal tool, you can work in either Heal or Clone mode. Let’s take a look at the difference. Here is an image before any work: (c) A. Nowacka First I clicked on the spot removal tool to select it, and then on [...]