Furthering Adobe's goal of allowing you to enjoy your edited photos anywhere, Lightroom for Apple TV was introduced today. With a Creative Cloud subscription and the app from the app store, you'll be able to play slideshows of your synced collections of photos, stop and zoom to see image detail, navigate to any individual photo with a [...]
Lightroom 6.6.1 and CC 2015.6.1 were released this morning with support for the new Fujifilm X-T2 camera, and high-priority bug fixes, including a fix for the memory-leak performance issue introduced in the last update. This is a free update to Lightroom 6 and CC. How to Update If Lightroom doesn't prompt you to update, go to [...]
Big news today for iPad and iPhone users: you can now import raw files from your camera or memory card into Lightroom mobile and edit them, and these original files and their edits will sync back to Lightroom on your desktop. This was already possible with JPEGs, but now that we have [...]
I am pleased to announce the availability of my updated Lightroom CC/6 and 5: Producing Great Output video series! In this series of over 12 hours of training for Lightroom 5, 6, and CC users, you'll learn to create beautiful prints, photo books, slideshows and web galleries using Lightroom. I'll also help you to finally understand critical but seemingly [...]
If you have ever tried to find a lens profile in the Lens Corrections panel for lenses for an Olympus, Sony, Fuji, or other mirrorless or compact camera, you know that there are none available. That said, you don't have to create a custom lens profile. Photographs from these cameras are too distorted to use without [...]
Adobe today released Lightroom 6.6 and CC 2015.6. In addition to support for new cameras, new lens profiles and bug fixes, this free update introduces performance and other improvements for both Creative Cloud (CC) subscribers and 6 owners, and a new feature just for CC subscribers - Guided Upright, which allows you to draw lines on your photo to tell [...]
The most important step to getting the most out of your photos with Lightroom is to master Lightroom's Basic panel. In the 20 minute video below I go through several examples to teach you all aspects of this most important panel in the Develop module. This video is one of the 76 in my Lightroom CC/6 [...]
Today Adobe released a free update to Lightroom CC and 6: CC 2015.5.1 and 6.5.1. This update fixes a few issues introduced in the last update and adds support for two more cameras, the Pentax K-1 and the Sony RX10 III (DSC-RX10M3).To install the update, in Lightroom go to Help>Updates. Creative Cloud subscribers will also find the update on [...]
Update April 2, 2016: Now that April 1 has passed, I'll say that this video was an April Fools' joke. Watch it only if you are up for a laugh! In this short new video tutorial I show you how you can turn a boring photo such as the one below on the left into a stunning [...]
Google announced recently that it is making all seven of its popular and powerful Nik plugins available for free! I haven't tried them all, but I love their U-Point technology for making local corrections, and I was really impressed by how I could easily produce stunning black and whites with Silver Effects Pro (that I didn't have the [...]
Adobe has just announced a new Technology Preview section on Lightroom Web, where Creative Cloud subscribers can play with features that are still in development. The first feature introduced is Search, which allows you to search for objects and themes in your photos - for example, find all photos with dogs in them or all photos with [...]
There have been a couple issues with the 6.5 / CC 2015.5 Lightroom update that I have become aware of and want to bring to your attention. Mac Permissions Issue With the CC 2015.5 and 6.5 updates, some Mac users are encountering the following message: "Lightroom encountered user permission issues." This issue used to cause hangs and [...]