There are many ways to add keywords to images in Lightroom, but one of my favorites is to spray them on with the Painter tool. It is quick, and even fun. In the Library module, click on the paint tool in the toolbar below the grid: In the Painter options bar that appears, choose Keywords from [...]
Have you experienced crashes in LR 2.2 that you didn't experience before? Many have complained about memory leaks and other issues. Adobe has announced that LR 2.3 will address the following: In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash. Slideshows could return to the first image randomly [...]
Check out my post over on O'Reilly Digital Media's Inside Lightroom blog on the miracle of two button printing in Lightroom. If you have been printing in Photoshop, you will be amazed at how you can streamline your printing process.
Take advantage of Lightroom 2's (or Camera Raw's) adjustment brush to create images that are part black and white and part color. I will start with the color image below, and convert all of it to black and white except the poster and the can. In the Develop module, click on the adjustment brush [...]
In overcast conditions, your images may have a blue color cast, as does this great snowman image shot by my friend Debbie Espinosa. It was shot with the camera on daylight white balance, so the camera did not adjust for the bluish color that overcast light has. What the image "should" look like is subjective. Blue [...]
The Post Crop section in the Vignettes panel of the Develop Module of Lightroom 2 (AND THE EFFECTS PANEL OF LIGHTROOM 3) allows you to add creative vignettes. It is called Post Crop, because the vignette will always adjust to any cropping you do, even if you crop after you create the vignette. Unless you have [...]
Sometimes I use Bridge to look at images, and from there I decide which ones to import into Lightroom. It is then easy to simply drag the images over into Lightroom. Size your Bridge and Lightroom windows so that you can see both. In Lightroom, go to Library Grid view (shortcut G). It does not matter [...]
I have written about moving your Lightroom work from your laptop to your desktop (or any two computers) here. This involves exporting your work on the laptop as a catalog, then importing it into your desktop catalog. Sometimes though you may want to simply move your catalog. Mine was initially on an external hard drive; [...]
The adjustment brush and the graduated filter tool are wonderful additions to Lightroom 2 for making local changes. But there are often quicker ways to make local changes. I will talk about HSL in this post. In the image below I want to darken the sky. Yes, I can get the adjustment brush, set the exposure [...]
In the Lightroom Develop module, there are different ways to look at Before and After for changes that you have made. One of my favorites is to use the backslash key to toggle between Before and After. The default Before state is the first step in the History panel, usually your file import. So by default, [...]
If you have used the adjustment brush in Lightroom, you may have noticed that you have the ability to paint color on your image. After clicking on the adjustment brush to make it active, click on the color square next to the word Color to choose your color. Adjustment Brush Color Setting In this [...]
In my last post I showed you how to remove spots using the spot removal tool in Lightroom and Camera Raw. After I made the video, it occurred to me that I didn't show you my most horrifying example of dust on the camera sensor. I took this image in 2004 shortly after I got my [...]