Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
Adobe today announced the release of Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 and Android tablets, available for $9.99. According to Adobe, the new app "lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more." According to the Adobe site, You can easily browse and select photos [...]
Hi everyone, I am hard at work on the Lightroom 4 version of my Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond DVD, with plans to then do another on Lightroom's Output Modules, so I apologize that I have not had time to post any in-depth tutorials recently. Here's a quick tip to tide you over for at least a [...]
The Adobe Photoshop team has been out doing Photoshop Sneak Peaks, suggesting that CS6 must not be too far away. From what they have shown so far, content aware move and expand are what I am looking forward to most: Liquify tool performance enhancements (no lags!!) and a much larger brush size will be huge [...]
In Lightroom's Import dialog (and in the Library module), you are given the choice to convert your camera manufacturer-proprietary raw files into Adobe's raw file format, DNG. I have gone back and forth on recommending conversion to my students, and in my own workflow -- not because I don't trust Adobe's conversion, but because I [...]
When I crop a photo in Lightroom, I often can't judge whether I like it or not with the whole photo still showing, so I used to have to get out of the crop, decide, then go back in if I want to adjust it further. Here's a tip I picked up from Victoria Bampton (aka [...]
If you are in Seattle or can travel in, don't miss this chance to learn in a small class setting! In this two day hands-on workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom, concentrating on the Library and Develop modules where you manage, edit and enhance your images. With hands-on practice, learn how to organize, backup, manage, edit, [...]
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Lightroom can really make your life easier, if you know how to ask it to. Here are a few tips for finding things or getting places quickly: You're working with a photo or folder in Lightroom, but need to go out and view it in Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. Lightroom can get you there -- Right-Click [...]
If you have a folder in Lightroom such as your Pictures folder, but you are not sure that all of the photos in that folder and its subfolders have been imported in Lightroom, you can have Lightroom check for you! Right-click on the folder, and choose Synchronize Folder. The dialog below will show you how many [...]
Wondering what the Lightroom 4 Beta looks like and/or how to use the new features successfully? I still have some spots left in this FREE 90 minute webinar, Saturday January 28 at 10:00 a.m. PST (6:00 PM GMT.) This is my last one on the Beta! Register here: If you can't attend, you will find a [...]
(Updated 1/30/12) Soft proofing is new in the Develop module of Lightroom 4 (the Beta at this point). It allows you to get a better idea of what your photo will look like in print when printing with profiles, and what it will look like when you export to sRGB or another color space. If your [...]
Do any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn't straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix [...]