Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
Happy New Year, everyone! I have this very strong feeling that 2013 is going to be a great year, and I am hoping that this is for you as well as me, for the world in general -- and for Lightroom, too! Thank you so much for helping to make 2012 such a rich and rewarding [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the official versions of Lightroom 4.3 and Camera Raw 7.3. This free update to Lightroom 4 contains support in the Library and Develop modules for the new HiDPI monitors (i.e. Apple's Retina Display), bug fixes, support for new cameras, and new lens profiles (including for the iPhone 4s [...]
I'm pleased to offer the following two workshops for winter quarter at Photo Center Northwest here in Seattle: Lightroom Fundamentals - January 26-27, 2013 Using the Library and Develop modules, learn how to organize, back up, manage, and enhance your raw and JPEG images. With hands-on practice, learn how to work through photo shoots efficiently [...]
Adobe has made it clear this year that going forward, only users of the immediate prior version of Photoshop (and the rest of the Creative Suite) will be eligible for upgrade pricing on future versions. Therefore, when CS7 comes out in 2013, only CS6 owners will be eligible for upgrade pricing -- CS5 and prior owners [...]
I would recommend that anyone who is at all frustrated with Lightroom 4 running too slowly check out this very useful new page from Adobe on steps you can take to improve performance. Some relate to upgrading your hardware (such as 16 GB of RAM and moving your catalog to a solid state drive), but others [...]
About once a week I get an email from a Lightroom user who has lost a panel ... most panels can go missing, but in my experience people seem to lose their Catalog panel in the Library module more than any other. To recover your missing panel, right-click (Ctl-click on a Mac) on the name [...]
The Alt (PC) or Option (Mac) key reveals a lot of convenient additional functionality in most or all of Lightroom’s modules. The problem is, there is nothing on the screen to tell you where holding it down may reveal something useful. In this post I will list all of the Alt/Option functionality that I have found [...]
Many of you know that I am a fan of Craft and Vision, which offers high quality photography e-books at amazing prices. They have just released Piet Van den Eynde's new Lightroom 4 Unmasked - A Complete Guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I am looking forward to reading it. It is over 300 pages, and [...]
The Lightroom team has announced the availability of the release candidate for Lightroom 4.3. The release candidate is made available before the official release in order to get broader community testing and feedback. This contains support in the Develop module for the new HiDPI monitors (i.e. Apple's Retina Display), bug fixes, support for new cameras, and [...]
In this video tutorial, I give you an overview of Lightroom's output modules, to give you an idea of what you can do with each. This is video #2 in my 12 hour series of 55 videos, Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output (A Workshop on Video) , available on DVD or by download. (UPDATE: Here's the [...]
It's hard for me to believe that I started this blog four years ago, just as Lightroom 2 was being released. I had no idea how many people would come to read this blog, and how many wonderful thank you notes and words of of support I would receive. I thank you for these, and for [...]
As I have written before, I find myself still discovering cool hidden features of Lightroom. This one I picked up from Sean McCormack's new Craft & Vision e-book, Essential Development (which as I wrote in my last post, you should definitely check out). The traditional way to set the size of the spot removal circle is [...]