If you are not prompted to update when you open LR and Bridge/Photoshop, in these programs go up to Help>Check for Updates. Downlaod the .exe (PC) or .dmg (Mac) file to your desktop, then double-click to launch the installation. When it is done, you can throw away the Adobe folder the install process placed on your [...]
In Lightroom you can restrict your crops to be a specific aspect ratio, such as 5×7, 8×10, or the same aspect ratio as your original. To do so, select the crop tool from the toolbar (R), click on the double up/down arrow next to the padlock to reveal the aspect menu, and choose your desired proportions. [...]
Did you know that the adjustment brush allows you to slowly build up the amount of change you apply to an image, and also slowly back off on a change you made? The secret is in the Flow and Density sliders. Density controls how much of the specified adjustment can be applied in total, and Flow [...]
These days I encourage students to leave Bridge and Camera Raw behind and use Lightroom for all of their basic image editing needs (resorting to Photoshop when heavy guns are required). But if you do find a reason to use Bridge and Camera Raw, you'll discover that Lightroom does not automatically see and show any Bridge [...]
Last week I wrote about Jeffrey Friedl's plug-in that allows you to export images directly to Facebook. There are lots of other great third-party plug-ins out there. But how can one find out about them? Easy, of course, or I wouldn't be writing about it! In the Library module of Lightroom, click on the Export button [...]
If you plan to print your image, I recommend that you do all of your clean up work zoomed into 1:1. You should also review all of your local adjustments at this zoom ratio to make sure that your edges aren't obvious. Here's an easy way to move through your image while you are [...]
I wrote about the importance of exposing as brightly as possible, short of blowing out important highlights in my post “What Lurks in the Shadows: The Case of the Black Cat”. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t. I thought I would show you an example of a perfect exposure that in fact looks [...]
Just a quick tip today — it is 92 in my office and 103 outside — the hottest day in recorded Seattle history. (I realize that this is nothing for some of you!) My folders are arranged in a hierarchy — Picturesyearshoot, with ocassional subfolders within a shoot. By default the Lightroom folder panel shows an [...]
In Lightroom you can hide the top, bottom, left and right panels so that you have more room to show your images. To hide a panel, click on the triangle at the outside center edge of the panel. Click on it again to show it again. There are shortcuts, of course: Tab hides and shows the [...]
Selecting images seems to be a fairly straightforward task, but Lightroom can actually be pretty finicky about how you do it. Here's a video I put together to show you how to select individual images and groups of images, and to help you avoid unintended consequences. Watch This Video on How to Select Images in Lightroom
If you don’t get prompted to perform an automatic update, in Lightroom and in Bridge, go to Help>Check for Updates to update to the new releases. Lightroom uses Camera Raw when you use the Edit in Photoshop command on a raw image, so be sure to update both. Adobe only provides these updates to Lightroom 2 [...]
Two factors determine how big your image will be when displayed -- the size of your image in pixels, and how many pixels are displayed per inch, which is referred to as resolution. Both of the example images below have 6 pixels (3x2): the first is displayed at 1 pixel per inch, and the second is [...]