Laura Shoe's Lightroom Blog
If you use the Creative Cloud application to install applications and updates, it can be confusing and tedious to have to scroll through applications you don't use to find the ones that you do - for example, Lightroom Classic users will also see the cloud-based Lightroom CC application even if it's not installed, and it's easy [...]
In this free video tutorial I show you how to use Lightroom's Auto Import feature, with which Lightroom watches a folder on your hard drive and automatically imports any images that land in that folder. This feature is also in earlier versions of Lightroom. Here are a few examples of when it can be handy: [...]
Victoria Bampton's Lightroom Missing FAQ book has always been my favorite Lightroom book, and her latest edition, Lightroom Classic CC: The Missing FAQ, is no exception. Victoria is known in the Lightroom community as the Lightroom Queen, and for good reason - she's one of the most knowledgeable and experienced Lightroom users and authors out there. [...]
With Lightroom Classic and earlier versions, you can connect your camera to your computer with a USB cable, and as you shoot, have the images immediately and automatically imported into Lightroom. This is not only handy for studio portrait and product photographers who want to judge sharpness and review images with their clients immediately, but [...]
If something about Lightroom is not working as it's supposed to, resetting preferences can often resolve the issue. This video tutorial shows Lightroom Classic and Lightroom 6 users how to reset Lightroom's preferences.Users of earlier versions can also reset preferences (and should watch this video for explanations and tips), but the shortcut in the video won't [...]
Adobe today released updates to the Lightroom CC cloud-based desktop application (version 1.4), as well as updates to Lightroom CC iOS and Android (aka Lightroom mobile). An update to Lightroom Classic was also released - see my Lightroom Classic article for details on this. To update Lightroom CC Desktop, go to Help>Updates, and on the [...]
Adobe continues on its faster pace of releasing updates every two months rather than three with the release today of Lightroom Classic version 7.4 (along with updates to Lightroom CC desktop, iOS and Android). The Classic 7.4 update contains significant feature enhancements, support for new cameras, new lens profiles and bug fixes. Given that 7.3 [...]
Have you noticed that when you open the adjustment brush, graduated filter or radial filter, one or more of the sliders is set to a value other than zero? This can be handy if it's a good starting point for your planned work, but otherwise it can be annoying. Read on for how to change this [...]
Adobe this morning released an update to Lightroom Classic - 7.3.1 - only two weeks after releasing 7.3. This interim update provides important bug fixes only - no new camera support or lens profiles, and no new features. Preset and Profile Bugs Fixed Some customer presets were not converting to the new .XMP format and were [...]
In this video tutorial for Lightroom Classic, as well as for Lightroom 4, 5 and 6, I show you how to shift a color to another, and how to completely replace it. We'll use the HSL panel, and then a few powerful options in the adjustment brush. This video does assume basic experience with the [...]
It's always a pleasure to have free stuff to give away. Here's how you can enter for a chance to win a free one-year subscription to the Creative Cloud Photography Plan, with Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Photoshop and 1 TB of storage. This is a $240 value in the U.S. and probably a higher one [...]
I have just released the 5th and best edition of my Lightroom Fundamentals & Beyond video series! It's now up to 22 hours of training on 101 videos, and covers Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic 7. In this edition I've added a two-hour section dedicated to photo editing practice, more videos to help you clean [...]
