Join me for this free, live, worldwide online workshop with creativeLIVE on Lightroom's Output Modules -- March 18-20, 2013. Learn how to make beautiful prints, photo books, slideshows and web galleries in Lightroom. In addition to teaching you how to use Lightroom's output modules, I'll demystify critical output concepts that often confuse and intimidate photographers: color [...]
Here's an idea for a cool Book photo layout in Lightroom -- choose a multi-photo page layout, and use different parts of the same photo in each cell! Select your page by clicking on it, click on the downward triangle and choose a multi-photo layout: Drag your single photo from the Filmstrip up into each of [...]
I recently got a chance to try out X-Rite's Colormunki Photo device. This allows you to not only profile your monitor (and projector), but also to create printer / paper profiles. What I particularly like about it is that it is very easy to use, and the process has very few steps. The Colormunki Photo runs [...]
In this Lightroom video tutorial, I'll show you how to change and refine your page layouts. After an overview of page layout options, you'll learn how to choose a page layout and refine it with cell padding, add two page spreads, and select and change layouts of multiple pages at once. I then cover flagging layouts [...]
I haven't written many tutorials about Lightroom Book module on this blog, so I thought I'd share a video tutorial on some basic skills: swapping and replacing photos, usage badges, adding more photos to your book collection, removing photos, selecting and moving one or more pages, adding and removing pages, zooming a photo to fill, and [...]
My favorite layout style in Lightroom's Print module is the Custom Package, which allows us to layout multiple photos on the page. These can be laid out on top of each other, they can overlap, text can be added, etc.. Here are a couple examples -- a tryptic that I designed to print, and a collage [...]
About once a week I get an email from a Lightroom user who has lost a panel ... most panels can go missing, but in my experience people seem to lose their Catalog panel in the Library module more than any other. To recover your missing panel, right-click (Ctl-click on a Mac) on the name [...]
The Alt (PC) or Option (Mac) key reveals a lot of convenient additional functionality in most or all of Lightroom’s modules. The problem is, there is nothing on the screen to tell you where holding it down may reveal something useful. In this post I will list all of the Alt/Option functionality that I have found [...]
Many of you know that I am a fan of Craft and Vision, which offers high quality photography e-books at amazing prices. They have just released Piet Van den Eynde's new Lightroom 4 Unmasked - A Complete Guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I am looking forward to reading it. It is over 300 pages, and [...]
In this video tutorial, I give you an overview of Lightroom's output modules, to give you an idea of what you can do with each. This is video #2 in my 12 hour series of 55 videos, Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output (A Workshop on Video) , available on DVD or by download. (UPDATE: Here's the [...]
My goal in this post is to give you a couple suggestions for managing your files if you choose to shoot in raw+JPEG mode, capturing both file types for every photo you take, and if you wish to include and manage them both in Lightroom. As I discussed in my previous post, Shooting in Raw + [...]
Whether it is the beginning of fall for you, or the beginning of spring, a change of seasons is a perfect time to get your photos and Lightroom catalog organized. Here are some tutorials from the past year that will help you get your Lightroom "closet" cleaned up: It's Time for Some Fall Cleaning - 9 [...]
