Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the official release for Lightroom 5.3. This free update to Lightroom 5 contains bug fixes, new camera support, new lens profiles and a few new Develop shortcuts. When you open Lightroom, you should be prompted to update — download the file and double-click on it to run it. [...]
Update: Adobe has extended this deal through December 31. Today December 31 is the last day of Adobe's Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deal for people who don't yet own at least Photoshop CS3+ on the Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography Program, which includes: Photoshop CC Lightroom 5 (and updates) 20GB of online storage Behance ProSite [...]
Do you spend a lot of time searching through your folders in Lightroom, looking for particular photos? If so, it's time to add keywords to them -- words or phrases that you can then find your photos based on. In this short video tutorial I discuss three easy ways to add keywords: in the Import dialog [...]
Update April 2014: $9.99 has become the “going rate” for the “Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography program”, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom. A Creative Cloud subscription also now gives you unlimited syncing from your desktop catalog to Lightroom mobile for the iPad. This new app and Lightroom may be justification enough for you for the $9.99/month price [...]
Several months ago Adobe announced the Photoshop Photography deal for owners of Photoshop CS3 or later, through December 31, 2013. Now for Black Friday, today through December 2, 2013, ANYONE can get a subscription for $9.99/month, with an annual plan! If you have been wanting to get Photoshop, but weren't up for the $19.99/month regular price [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the release candidate for Lightroom 5.3. Release candidates are made available before official releases in order to get broader community testing and feedback. This release contain bug fixes, new camera support, new lens profiles and a few new Develop shortcuts. My general recommendation regarding release candidates is for [...]
If you want to experiment with different versions of develop work on a photo, virtual copies and/or snapshots are two great ways to do this -- all without having to create a second file on your hard drive. Snapshots allow you to save your work at different points in time so that you can easily [...]
Chromatic aberration sounds technical and beyond the grasp of most of us, but it's simply color fringing that some lenses create in our photos: It can be easily fixed by checking the "Remove Chromatic Aberration" checkbox in the Lens Corrections panel. Watch this short video for more about chromatic aberration, how to fix it, and how [...]
It's easy to create simple black, white or transparent photo borders in Lightroom, using the Effects panel in the Develop module. The Effects panel is on the right side, towards the bottom of your panels. Set the Style to Paint Overlay, so that highlights don't show through your border. 1. Black film-style border Set Amount to [...]
Adobe announced Thursday that one of their servers was hacked. According to Adobe, among other compromises, "we believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders. At this time, we do not [...]
I get a fair number of emails from frantic users who have lost some critical part of the Lightroom interface. In this video I show you how to find missing panels, tools, and more. Watch the video to learn not only how to find what you have lost, but also how to hide what you don't [...]
Adobe released Lightroom 5.2 today, with important bug fixes, new camera, lens and tethered capture support. As has become their practice in the first “dot” release (“.2” in this case — there was no “.1”), Adobe has also thrown in a few small but welcome new features. Watch my “What’s New in Lightroom 5.2” video below, [...]