Develop Presets are powerful Lightroom tools. You can use them to quick start your editing in Lightroom and to apply creative fixes to your images. You can create your own presets and you can download them from the web. Here are my top five tips for harnessing the power of Develop Presets. 1. Create Disconnected [...]
Most of us have heard of IPTC metadata but not everyone knows what it is, whether it is important to them or how to add it to their photos. In this post I’ll cover some of the basics of adding personal information about you as photographer as IPTC metadata to your images. I won’t be [...]
If you work in Lightroom a lot at some stage you’ll want to know where your Lightroom files are stored. Lightroom has plenty of pointers to help you find its files but these aren’t always as obvious as they might be. In this post, I’ll tell you where to find things such as your catalog, [...]
In Lightroom you can fix a series of images all at once using the Quick Develop Panel in the Library Module. While this tool lacks the precise adjustments you can make to an image in the Develop Module, it offers a quick solution for getting started fixing your images. To make use of the Quick [...]
A friend turned up today with a curly question. She’d been using a SD card in her point and shoot camera for some time and now the card had stopped functioning. If she put it in her computer she was told to format the disk to use it – sensibly she didn’t do this. However, [...]
Collections in Lightroom are a key tool for organizing images. There are some benefits to working with collections and some things that it helps to know about working with them. 1. Collections: Smart or regular? There are two types of collections in Lightroom, Smart Collections which are populated according to a filter which you define [...]
In Lightroom 3 the Import dialog was updated and there are heaps of cool tools here to speed up and make the import process more efficient. Here are five things that you should know about the import dialog. 1. Back up as you import In the Import dialog’s File Handling panel you can select to [...]
Most of us know we can convert and image to black and white in Lightroom by simply pressing the letter V. However, for the exact same image, your version of Lightroom might give a very different result to my version of Lightroom. The explanation is that there are two settings available for black and white [...]
One feature that I (along with a lot of other users) would like to see built into Lightroom is a calendar template. Unfortunately, there is not one available but thanks to Jerry Courvoisier of www.lightroomworkshops.com, for 2011 at least, you can download and create CD jewel case calendars for 2011. To get started visit http://www.lightroomworkshops.com/tutorials.html [...]
Lightroom has tools for correcting color not just across the entire image but also for correcting individual colors. This image was captured in New York’s Time Square where the light is unpredictable at best especially at night because of the bright advertisements and neon signs. Because the colors of the lights change constantly it’s impossible [...]
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