Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
I wrote about the importance of exposing as brightly as possible, short of blowing out important highlights in my post “What Lurks in the Shadows: The Case of the Black Cat”. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t. I thought I would show you an example of a perfect exposure that in fact looks [...]
Just a quick tip today — it is 92 in my office and 103 outside — the hottest day in recorded Seattle history. (I realize that this is nothing for some of you!) My folders are arranged in a hierarchy — Picturesyearshoot, with ocassional subfolders within a shoot. By default the Lightroom folder panel shows an [...]
In Lightroom you can hide the top, bottom, left and right panels so that you have more room to show your images. To hide a panel, click on the triangle at the outside center edge of the panel. Click on it again to show it again. There are shortcuts, of course: Tab hides and shows the [...]
Adobe is looking for Lightroom and Photoshop users to interview! Those that participate receive an Amazon gift card. You need to respond to Anita Dennis this week to be considered. Details are on Adobe's Phosphors blog, which is a great source for updates on Help content for Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw. Check it out and [...]
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic. However, I noticed today that my colleague Gene McCullagh has just written about this over on his blog, Lightroom Secrets. I agree with Gene that Lightroom will serve most photographers needs most of the time (and some photographers, all the time). My advice to serious [...]
Selecting images seems to be a fairly straightforward task, but Lightroom can actually be pretty finicky about how you do it. Here's a video I put together to show you how to select individual images and groups of images, and to help you avoid unintended consequences. Watch This Video on How to Select Images in Lightroom
If you don’t get prompted to perform an automatic update, in Lightroom and in Bridge, go to Help>Check for Updates to update to the new releases. Lightroom uses Camera Raw when you use the Edit in Photoshop command on a raw image, so be sure to update both. Adobe only provides these updates to Lightroom 2 [...]
Two factors determine how big your image will be when displayed -- the size of your image in pixels, and how many pixels are displayed per inch, which is referred to as resolution. Both of the example images below have 6 pixels (3x2): the first is displayed at 1 pixel per inch, and the second is [...]
You may have noticed that once you specify a crop in Lightroom and then try to move the crop frame, that it goes in the opposite direction from what you expect. Instead of thinking of yourself clicking and dragging inside the crop frame to move the crop frame, think of yourself as clicking and dragging inside [...]
You are designing a slideshow, and you want the background color to be a particular color from one of your images. Or, you are designing a web gallery, and you want the background color to be the color on your website, or some other cool color you have found. The question is, how do you find [...]
I'm back in town very briefly, so I thought I'd post information about my next free Lightroom Demonstration here in Seattle. It is Saturday, May 16, from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Capitol Hill Library. For more information, click here. Space is limited, so please RSVP to laura@laurashoe.com if you would like to attend. [...]
When you import a folder of images, the folder will show in the Folders panel, but you may not see the parent folder that it lives in. For example, when I imported my first 2009 shoot folder, Lightroom did not show me that it lives inside my 2009 folder, which lives inside my Pictures folder. That's [...]