Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
This is my first article in what will be a several part series on Lightroom's Export function. This article will focus on what exporting is for and when you should export. Future ones will go into the settings. Background: Lightroom's Non-Destructive Approach to Image Editing Lightroom works non-destructively, meaning that it never touches your original raw [...]
Since the release of Lightroom 6.8 and CC 2015.8, some users have reported that their panels in the Library module suddenly go black: This seems to only be an issue with Mac OS Sierra. Update: also El Capitan. The quickest way to get your panels back is to switch from Library (G) to Develop (D) and [...]
Below are two video tutorials from my Lightroom CC/6 and 5: The Fundamentals & Beyond video series that will teach you how to clean up your files and folders - learn to reorganize them and to resolve "missing file / file cannot be found" issues. The first video, File and Folder Management: Reorganizing, explains how to [...]
I recommend adding copyright and contact information to your photos as you import them into Lightroom so that when you share photos with the outside world, this data automatically tags along with them and people can get in touch with you if they come across your photos and want to use them. For photos already in [...]
Mac Users running Lightroom 6.8 or CC 2015.8: have you gone to back up your Lightroom catalog (like I tell you to!), and encountered this message that your catalog is larger than 4 GB, and that you'll need a third party utility to extract it? First, as of right now there is a bug - all [...]
In this free video tutorial, learn how to use Lightroom's new Reference view for Creative Cloud subscribers. Reference view allows you to display a reference photo on the left as you edit another photo on the right. It's useful anytime you want to match the appearance of photos (white balance, contrast, color, etc). Consider using it when [...]
Adobe released Lightroom 6.8 and CC 2015.8 today. These are free updates to Lightroom 6 and CC. If Lightroom doesn't prompt you to update, go to Help>Updates, or click on the Update button on the Apps tab of your Creative Cloud app, or download from these links and then double-click on the file to run the [...]
Lightroom mobile 2.6 for iOS and 2.2.2 for Android were released today. The Android release includes bug fixes and support for new cameras and lenses. Here's what's new for iOS: iPhone and iPad: A new Pro camera mode with exposure compensation, shutter speed (Sec), ISO and focus ([+]) settings. Pro camera mode. Drag from the circle [...]
In the keynote presentation for Adobe's fall MAX conference, Adobe presented "a glimpse of the future of photography" in the form of a brief sneak peek of a new photography application under development, code-named "Project Nimbus". The application has a modernized interface that is consistent with the Lightroom mobile and Lightroom web interfaces, with the goal [...]
In this short video for beginners, I provide a brief introduction to Lightroom (6 or Classic). Learn what Lightroom looks like, how it's organized, and what you can do with it. Note that this is not applicable to the new cloud-based Lightroom CC application - click here for an introduction to that "Lightroom CC" program.This is the [...]
Lightroom's Quick Develop panel in the Library module is great for making fast edits to or applying presets to one or many photos without having to go to the Develop module, and for making relative changes to a group of photos - for example, bumping up exposure on all photos by one stop. (There's no other way [...]
You traveled with a laptop and used Lightroom on this laptop to import and work on your photos while you were on the road. Now you're back home and you're wondering how to get the photos along with your work (flags, stars, keywords, editing, etc) into your main Lightroom catalog on your desktop computer. In this [...]
