Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
To be honest, I don’t download a lot of presets from the internet. I personally have limited mental bandwidth for add-ons, and there are so many out there that they can be hard to sift through. However, I agree that done right, they can add great value. It can be very efficient to use a [...]
In this 65 minute video from my January 11 Lightroom 4 Beta webinar, I give you a tour of the new features, and explain the basics of how to use them. I wish the audio quality were better, but it is what it is -- rest assured that my Lightroom DVD products have higher quality audio [...]
In this post from November, I reported Adobe's announcement that only customers on Photoshop CS5 would be eligible for upgrade pricing on CS6 when it comes out in the first half of this year. (I also reported on the alternative Cloud version and how that should factor into your upgrade decisions.) What this meant was that [...]
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 14 at 9:00 a.m. PST (5:00 PM GMT.) Register here. And stay tuned for many more webinar topics, on both Lightroom and Photoshop!
UPDATE: While this was written during the Lightroom 4 beta release, these instructions and video are completely applicable to the official Lightroom 4 release, Lightroom 5, Lightroom 6 and CC! The Basics panel in the Develop module of the Lightroom 4 Beta may not be the sexiest feature, but the improvements are quite powerful, and the [...]
Here's a good set of introductory videos from Adobe's Julieanne Kost.
Adobe announced tonight the release of its beta version of Lightroom 4. Features and testing are not complete — this release is designed to get broader feedback from the user community before the official release. The Lightroom 4 beta can be downloaded at this link. To give Adobe feedback on features and performance, post in the Lightroom [...]
Six years ago today the first public beta of Lightroom 1 was released. What a great 6 years it has been! I remember when a mentor of mine and fabulous photographer, George DeWolfe, showed our class Lightroom 1. He raved about it and used it all week in class, but he said "Lightroom HAS to have [...]
2012 has started out pretty busy for me, so I haven't had time yet to write any new tutorials, but I wanted to pass along this great list of Lightroom experts to follow on Twitter from pixiq.com. What -- you're not on Twitter? Frankly, I myself am only on Twitter to follow and participate in [...]
Whether you had one for 2011 or not, now is the perfect time to create a 2012 copyright preset, that will add your copyright information to your photos’ metadata automatically when you import them. In the Import dialog, in the Apply During Import panel on the right, click on the drop down next to Metadata, and [...]
The metadata panel in Lightroom has lots of little shortcuts you can click on to get places and see or change things. The panel is the last one down on the right side of the Library module. In the Default metadata view you can rename your photo; find the master photo of your virtual copy; show [...]
You have pulled together your photos and designed the slideshow using the Slideshow module, and it looks fabulous! Short of exporting it to a PDF or MP4 movie, how do you save it so you can be sure it will be there any time you visit the Slideshow module, and so you can continue to revise [...]