Working with Image Stacks in Lightroom
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 [More]
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Drag and Drop from Lightroom
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 [More]
Building an ebook in Lightroom
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 [More]
Automatically Stack Lightroom Images
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 [More]
Duelling in Lightroom, Working With 2 Screens
One of the great reasons to use Lightroom is that it offers such a fast and easy workflow for editing large numbers of images. Every little tip, trick or method that saves editing seconds allows us to be more effective and profitable as photographers.
My tip for today is using Duel Screens in Lightroom. The ability to work on one image while controlling a batch of images means that you can work quicker and more consistently allowing for more time doing what we love.. spending more time out with the camera. [More]
Add a Top Level Folder to your Lightroom Catalog
In last week’s tutorial, we looked at some easy ways to migrate a Lightroom catalog between machines, and one of the key tips was keeping your image folders organized under a single top level [More]
Migrating a Lightroom Catalog
One question I seem to get asked a lot is, “how do I move my Lightroom Catalog to another machine, and keep all my edits, collections, and metadata?” In today’s video, I’ll show you a quick and easy way to get your Lightroom catalog from one machine to another, without losing any data.
In this example, we see the process using Lightroom 4, but the process hasn’t changed since the first version of Lightroom, so everyone can use this tip. [More]
Ten More Things About Lightroom
AJ Wood returns with a follow up to his popular post Ten Things Beginners Should Know in Lightroom with an updated Lightroom 4 edition.
These are AJ’s ‘must know’s’, do you have any of your own you want to share? Drop them in the comments and we’ll compile them for a future post. [More]
Photosmith 2 – A Review
Photosmith is an iPad app that claims to be the ‘bridge’ between Lightroom and the photographer allowing them to sort, keyword and organise photographs ‘in the field or when traveling’ and even when ‘hiding from the rain under an awning in Bogota’ when ‘even a slim notebook is unwieldy’. The app works with JPEG and RAW files and integrates wirelessly with Lightroom. [More]
Dramatic Skies with Camera Raw’s Graduated Filter
On a recent Saturday morning, I was privileged to join some fellow NAPP members for a friendly “Canon vs. Nikon” shootout, at Fort Desoto Park in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The original intent was to compare the new 5DMIII against the new D800. Out on the beach, things got a little crazy, and a few of us took the term “shootout” literally! I was on hand to capture some of the hilarity. [More]
Publish from Lightroom to Dropbox
Cloud storage service Dropbox is a very handy and useful tool, allowing you to share files between your machines. For photographers, it provides and easy way to get your images on all your devices quickly and easily. If you’re using Lightroom, then the Publish Services that were introduced with LR3 give you direct integration from Lightroom all the way through the cloud – a very nice capability. In today’s video tip, you’ll learn how to set up a Publish Service to manage your Lightroom portfolios right within Dropbox. [More]
Dust Spot Removal in Lightroom
The bane of a landscape photographer’s life is dust spots on the film or camera sensor.. The smaller the aperture, the greater the likely hood that ugly dust spots will appear in your images. [More]
Create the Instagram Style in Lightroom
It’s a pleasure to welcome a new Nut to TipSquirrel.com! Having been a fan of Howard and IceFlowStudios for some time I was thrilled when he agreed to come and join our humble group of [More]
Back From the Brink: The Awesome Power of Lightroom 4.
We all have photographic mishaps from time to time; many of them are only minor, thankfully. Sometimes, however, they can be real howlers and that can be frustrating, especially if they were shots that are not easy to recapture.
In this article we’re going to be looking at an example of a very underexposed image, that, ordinarily we would consign to the trash without a second thought. Before we stab at the delete key, however, let’s see what we can do in the Develop module of Lightroom 4; you will be pleasantly surprised! [More]
Simplify Your Lightroom Interface
One of my favorite features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the user interface. More specifically, the ability of the user interface to mold itself to the activities at hand, and its ability to get [More]
