If you watched my video tutorial on the Custom Print Package in Lightroom, you know how to make a collage of photographs. Here’s an example I put together quickly, leaving the background color white, and adding a grey stroke border to the images (the black frame is not part of the result): You could make your [...]
If you want different versions of an image, such as with different crops or both a black and white and color one, you can create virtual copies in Lightroom. These aren’t duplicates of your file — you will still just have one file on your hard drive, but multiple sets of Develop instructions for that [...]
I posted this tip a little over a year ago when Lightroom 3 came out, but I thought I'd post it again, since surprisingly it is one of my most-read posts. Looking to blur out a background to reduce distractions? In Lightroom 3 or later, use the adjustment brush with Sharpness at -50 to -100. [...]
Sometimes I find that for cloning or healing I need to put one Lightroom spot removal fix right on top of another. If you have used this tool, you know that this isn’t directly possible — putting the cursor over an existing circle just gives you the hand tool to move that circle. It finally occurred [...]
The HSL panel allows you to affect individual colors in your image. HSL stands for Hue, Saturation, and Luminance. You can use Hue to shift a color towards another color, for example, blue to purple or green. (Yes, you too can have purple skies!) Saturation is the intensity of color, so you can make your blues, for [...]
Adobe has released an update to Lightroom, 3.4.1. According to their website it includes: Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Canon Rebel T3i, Nikon D5100 and Fuji FinePix X100 • Corrections for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom 3 • The Lightroom 3.4.1 update includes an important correction for a bug [...]
Quite a while back I wrote about a technique to invert your images from negatives to positives or vice versa that involved an Adobe Camera Raw workaround. In looking at my blog stats, I notice that people are still reading that post, so I thought I would provide an easier technique — now that Lightroom 3 [...]
I am working on a Lightroom 3 training DVD, which I will be offering for sale, hopefully soon. The concept is a "Lightroom Workshop on DVD". It is a series of many videos, several hours long in total, designed for beginning and intermediate Lightroom users. I cover just about everything I teach in my two-day Lightroom [...]
Victoria Bampton, a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen, has just recently released her Missing FAQ book updated for Lightroom 3. She is an administrator and Lightroom Guru on lightroomforums.net, and is one of the most knowledgeable Lightroom users and troubleshooters I know — if I don’t know the answer to a question myself, I often turn to Victoria [...]
I still have some spots open for this workshop next weekend at Studio R in Seattle — I hope you can join us! We will be using Lightroom 3. Lightroom Fundamentals In this two day hands-on workshop, learn the fundamentals of Lightroom 3, concentrating on the Library and Develop modules where you manage, edit and enhance [...]
If you have upgraded to Lightroom 3, when you look at images in the Develop module that you have adjusted with a previous version of Lightroom, you will see an exclamation point in the bottom right: This is a signal to you that the image is continuing to use your settings from the old (pre-Lightroom 3) [...]
Looking to blur out a background to reduce distractions? In Lightroom 3, use the adjustment brush with Sharpness at -100. If this is not enough blur, do it again: click on New to start a new adjustment, and paint a second time. Also consider using the graduated filter with -100 Sharpness to simulate a shallower [...]