In the example today I want to show how it is really easy in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW to repaint or relight the background, saving you the expense and time of lighting and coloured gels etc.
Develop presents in Lightroom or Camera Raw can be more than just a pretty effect. They can help do the heavy lifting or the monotonous processing, so you can focus your energy in more interesting areas.
Lightroom 5 comes with some pretty nice upgrades, but one of the smaller additions may make many photographers excited. Many times you’ll find yourself with a nice looking photo, but because of certain conditions, your lens or surroundings may contain a bit of dust.
Ever been out and with your camera and see a great shot but when you get to process it the sky is all blown out and no amount of processing can get it back to how it looked? Well, one of the ways to get around this is to use graduated neutral density filters, but you may not always have them with you so there is another way. This alternative method involves a few camera controls and (don’t run away) HDR!
Proviso, this method is very good but not 100% foolproof so don’t expect perfect results every time and you need Photoshop CS6 to get the best results.
How many times have you sent an image from Lightroom to either a printing company or to an online service like Facebook or Flickr and the colours came out all wrong? Now assuming that you have a calibrated monitor (if not, why not?) then the cause of the problem is probably a matter of colour space and Gamut.
In the second part of my workflow example I take my image from Lightroom and into Photoshop.
Lightroom 5 Beta became free to download as from this morning (Tuesday 16th April 2013). This beta offers a free, public preview of new features and tools that will be offered in the final release, expected later this year.
Lightroom is wonderful in the way it can stay out of the way and keep you immersed in your images. But, if you need some information while your images fill the screen, there’s no need to open up panels or access menus. Lightroom’s View Options open the door to a wealth of information, presented heads up style in both the Grid and Loupe views.
HDR doesn’t have to be gritty, edgy, with radioactive colors. At its heart, HDR is a technique that can allow you to more accurately capture the images you see – as long as you aren’t too heavy-handed with the controls.
Inspired by a video by fellow Photoshop Nut Rich Harrington, this technique looks at making a spot colour image in the easiest way possible, in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom.
Today’s post is in response to a problem I sometimes have, and I’m guessing that I am not alone. The problem is that my Lightroom catalogue is fairly sizeable and as I shoot weddings I have quite a few images by other photographers within Lightroom. So how do I quickly and easily find only my photos or that of another photographer?
In a recent tutorial here on TipSquirrel, we looked at a technique to Automatically Stack Lightroom Images. In that tutorial, we touched on a powerful tip for setting up stacks in Lightroom, but today we’ll take a step back and…
I was asked recently whether you could drag and drop files from Lightroom onto a memory stick and this raised a few points that I thought were worthy of mentioning here. To understand the question better, we need to…
Today I thought I would try something a little different.. How about creating a book in Adobe Lightroom 4, converting it to an ebook and publishing it to the Apple iTunes (and Blurb book store). Does that sound different enough?…
Catalog views within Adobe Lightroom can be daunting, particularly when you have a folder filled with many files. On a recent expedition with my friend Eric, the TipSquirrel himself, I managed to take over 500 images on a photo expedition.…
