Shooting Tethered in Lightroom
One of the fantastic things about Lightroom is the way it can streamline a photographer’s workflow. Lightroom allows the creating of presets and applying them over a complete shoot, even [More]
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Changes to the Basics Tab in Lightroom 4 Beta
Recently, I have seen a lot of discussion regarding the changes to the development module in Lightroom 4 Beta and I wanted to go over some of these changes since Lightroom 3. In my previous post, I [More]
A quick look at colour correction in Lightroom 4 Beta
Exciting news yesterday as Adobe released the first public beta for Lightroom 4. Lots of people have been asking me what has changed since LR3? is it worth upgrading? etc. Based on my first [More]
A further look at Keywords within Lightroom
One of the most tedious tasks with maintaining a large catalog of images is maintaining the list of keywords and applying the right keywords to an image. Following on from the great tutorials of my [More]
Creating coloured backdrops in Lightroom
One of the things about Lightroom that I love is that even though it is the little brother to the mighty Photoshop, it is still has a few tricks up its sleeve. I am always looking for ways to do [More]
Importing in Lightroom using Presets
One of the great things about Adobe Lightroom is its ability to speed up a photographer’s workflow. There are many ways to do this within both the Library module and the Develop module, but [More]
Noise and Sharpening in Lightroom
This will be a quick and short tutorial today, to show you the benefits of a sharpening mask within Lightroom. I have had a couple of people ask me about noise in high ISO images and how to [More]
Custom Printing in Lightroom
I have to admit a certain bias here, I have a strong fondness for the Print module in Lightroom.. After years of trying to get Photoshop to print something that resembles what I have on the screen, [More]
Creating a Web Gallery in Lightroom
Recently, I’ve been asked to set up a few web galleries from a recent shoot, and I thought that I would show you how easy it is to create galleries from within Lightroom. To do this tutorial, [More]
Backing up and Restoring Lightroom Catalogues
I’ve seen a few questions recently concerning Lightroom Catalogues and back up workflows. Often people get confused when it comes to the difference with backing up images and backing up LR [More]
Adding Contrast Using Lightroom Virtual Copies and Photoshop
I have to admit up front that the bulk of this technique is one I learnt from my buddy Glyn Dewis where he double processes a raw file using smart objects in Photoshop. The link to Glyn’s [More]
Lost and Found: Dealing with Missing Files in Lightroom
I, like most photographers I know, are paranoid when it comes to back ups of their images. We know it is not a matter of ‘if’ hardware will fail but ‘when’ it will fail. [More]
Colour Correction using Lab Colour mode
Last month, Scot showed how to boost colour contrast using the Lab colour space. This week he stays within LAB, and looks at a simple colour correction. The original image is a mix of flash and a rather warm background light, creating a mixed balance of light throughout the image. [More]
Colour Separation Using LAB Colour Space in Photoshop
I would like to thank Dan Margulis for the technical expertise behind today’s article. He gives a convincing argument of LAB colour space’s hidden power. If you would like to find out [More]
Editing Eyes in Lightroom
One of the things I love about Lightroom is the flexibility of the Adjustment brushes. Most people know how to dodge or burn an area of the photo with these adjustment brushes but are maybe unaware [More]