Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
I am pleased and honored to announce that I will be teaching a 3-day Lightroom 4 Fundamentals workshop for creativeLIVE, Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 9 am - 4 pmPacific Time. This will be a FREE live broadcast over the web, so you can tune in from just about anywhere! Lightroom 4 Fundamentals In [...]
In my last post, I presented a video of a few of my favorite CS6 Beta features so far. Since I need to focus on my upcoming creativeLIVE Lightroom workshop (watch it free next week online!) and on my next video series, Lightroom's Output Modules, rather than produce a whole series of "What's new in Photoshop [...]
Update: the official release of Photoshop CS6 turned out to be the same as the beta, so this article and the video are relevant to the official release as well. In this video, I show you the features that have most caught my attention so far in the Photoshop CS6 Beta: The content-aware patch tool feature [...]
Adobe tonight announced the availability of a beta version of Photoshop CS6. You can download it at Adobe Labs . I have been very focused on Lightroom 4 lately, so I have not spent a lot of time on this yet to understand and evaluate every new feature. In this related post, I show you a [...]
If you have upgraded to Lightroom 4, when you look at photos in the Develop module that you had in a previous version of Lightroom, you will see an exclamation point in the bottom right: This is a signal to you that the photo is continuing to use your settings from the old (pre-Lightroom 4) processing [...]
Some users -- but not all users -- have been having issues with Lightroom 4. Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, has written an excellent post on known Lightroom 4 issues, so I will refer you to it. Should you upgrade despite these issues, or wait? I would suggest that it depends. Read through the list [...]
I have just posted four new Lightroom webinar sessions for this coming month on my Webinars page: What's New in Lightroom 4 Overview of Lightroom (2 sessions) Overview of Lightroom's Output Modules They are filling fast, so if you're interested, sign up now! I will schedule more if demand warrants -- be sure to join my [...]
I was on Amazon last night, looking to see what is out for Lightroom 4 training, and couldn't help but notice that there is almost nothing! The biggest authors are releasing books -- in April and May. I just thought I would point out that my video series, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals & Beyond [...]
Some users have experienced issues when upgrading from Lightroom 3 to Lightroom 4. In certain situations, Lightroom 4 is automatically flattening out users' Lightroom 3 Tone Curve point curve work, even if the photos are left in the old (2010) process version. If you are a point curve user and haven't upgraded yet, I would suggest [...]
Lightroom is a fabulous program, but it can be daunting. Here are a few resources to get you started with getting your photos and videos into Lightroom. (This is applicable to Lightroom Classic and earlier versions of it - Lightroom 3, 4, 5, 6, and CC 2015. It is not applicable to the new cloud-based [...]
Adobe announced tonight the official release of Lightroom 4. The biggest news is the pricing — the full version lists for $149, and the upgrade and student/teacher additions are $79 (compared to $299/$199 for Lightroom 3!) This will open up Lightroom to a much broader market, and make the upgrade decision an easier one. For me, [...]
Here's a great video by Terry White demonstrating the new Adobe Photoshop Touch app for iPad and Android devices. It really is Photoshop -- though not with complete functionality, of course. But if you are a Photoshop user, you will be happy to see layers, blending modes, refine edge, and more. I love how you can [...]