Have you ever thought (as I did today) that you would burst into tears or have to break open a bottle (before noon!) if you lost Lightroom work you did or images you captured? If so, you are going too long between backups. Let’s first go back to a public library analogy for Lightroom: if the [...]
You may be using a lot more hard drive space with Lightroom than you need to be. There are three major opportunity areas: catalog backups, 1:1 previews, and deleting rejects. Catalog Backups My Lightroom catalog is about 500 MB. (To see how large yours is, go to Edit>Catalog Settings on the PC, or Lightroom>Catalog Settings on [...]
Adobe has announced the availability of release candidates for Lightroom 2.7 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.7. Release candidates are not official releases, and are still in testing. However, if you have one of the cameras that these releases introduce support for, you may want to download them now. […]
I knew it wouldn’t be long before folks started creating wild presets with the new point tone curve in Lightroom 3 Beta 2. Here are SOME and SOME MORE from Jeffrey Friedl. (UPDATE: This is applicable to later versions of Lightroom as well.) Play with it yourself: In the Tone Curve panel in the Develop module, [...]
Almost five months to the day after releasing Lightroom 3 Beta, Adobe has announced a second Lightroom 3 Beta release. Whether this is only intended as a means to gather and incorporate significantly more user feedback for the final release, or possibly also to buy time to incorporate more new features into the official Lightroom 3 [...]
Many photographers like to rename their original image files. I personally don't -- I look to the folder name and image keywords I have applied to tell me about a photo rather than the file name, so the camera-generated file name is fine for me. There is no right or wrong on this -- I suggest [...]
UPDATE: The shortcut in Lightroom 6 and CC 2015 is just F. While I know a fair amount about Lightroom, I am always picking up more from my fellow bloggers. Here's a quick but useful shortcut from Sean McCormack over at Lightroom-Blog.com: To see your image and nothing but your image, type Shift-Ctl-F on the PC, [...]
Last week Lightroom guru Sean McCormack released a new web engine plug-in, LRB Exhibition. I have to say, I am impressed — in less than an hour I was able to use Lightroom to create a complete website that I would not hesitate to show someone who might judge my work. The plug-in accomodates a home [...]
I used the image below in a a post on exposure a few months back. A reader asked me to show how I developed the image, so I have produced a video showing my technique. Click HERE to view it. To develop this image, I use the Basic, Tone Curve and HSL panels, as well as [...]
Before the time saver, a few basics on collections: Collections in the Library module of Lightroom are virtual grouping of images. They allow you to pull together images from anywhere in your catalog without having to create physical copies of your files. I use collections alot, to group images for portfolios, show submissions, examples for the [...]
Curves isn’t exactly intuitive, so Adobe lately has been introducing tools to make it more accessible. As I mentioned in my “Introduction to Curves” post, the sliders available underneath the curve in Lightroom (and Camera Raw) to adjust brightness of Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows are one example of this. Another example is the targeted adjustment [...]
Curves is certainly not one of those intuitive features of Photoshop (or Lightroom), or at least that was my perspective when I tried to figure it out on my own before I got formal training. Curves is used to brighten or darken tones in your image, and at a more advanced level, to do color correction [...]