I’ve mentioned before that coming up with new preset ideas has been pretty difficult these days. I feel like I’ve run through just about every preset combination possible in Lightroom. I mean, there’s only so many ways you can move a few sliders right It doesn’t take long before they all start looking the same (maybe with just a different name). That’s why I was really psyched when I saw the Lightroom 4 changed some of the Develop module settings. Mainly because the changes are fantastic and help me edit my photos better. But, if I’m really being honest…
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New Lightroom 4 Presets – The HDR “Look”
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Lens Acronyms
foto-biz.com27 Jan 2012 | 8:21 amI was talking to Marg who, proudly, showed me that she just discovered that her lens was also a macro. It's one of these, wide angle to extra tele, all in one lens (no name mentioned). The “macro” is not a macro mode, I would call it a close-up mode and that's not even that close. Then I looked at her lens… so many acronyms Canon Acronym Almost sensible wording Explanation AF AutoFocus Provides auto-focus AFD Arc Form Drive Old design, slower auto-focusing AL Aspheric Lens Used to minimize aberrations CA Circular Aperture lenses Aperture blades to give as circular an iris shape as… -
Making Your Images Standout
Lightroom for Digital Photographers25 Jan 2012 | 11:42 amIn a world where there are so many images how do you make your images standout from all others? In this tutorial we'll be looking at a presentation method that can separate you from the pack. -
Lightroom 4 Beta and Photoshop-like Cloning and Healing?
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips17 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pmLast week, Tom Hogarty (Adobe’s Lightroom product manager) was in town for the Lightroom 4 Beta launch. He co-hosted 4 live webcasts with me throughout the day. As we looked through the list of questions on a break, I saw one that read “Why didn’t you include real cloning and healing tools in LR4 like Photoshop? Aren’t you just trying to keep it so we have to buy both?”. Tom saw the question and immediately said “Let’s take that one”. So we did and he had a great response to it. One I thought was worth a quick post because I think plenty of… -
A Catalog In The Cloud Revisited
Lightroom Secrets22 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pmSome time ago I offered a solution to working with a catalog on multiple computers utilizing Dropbox to store the catalog. Take a look at A Catalog In The Cloud in case you missed it. I mentioned that this wasn’t a solution for the multi-photographer studio but it could be useful if your images are housed on an external drive and you like to work from multiple computers. The cloud based catalog has the advantage that all of the changes you make reside there and are accessible to your various computers. If you are using a free Dropbox account (you get 2GB free when you sign up!) you will…
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Making Your Images Standout
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Lightroom 4 Beta Introduction
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Exporting Images With Watermarks and Identity Plate
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What's an image badge?
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Step 2 in the Camera Raw Workflow
8 Dec 2011 | 5:03 amIn this tutorial we will be looking at the second step of the Camera Raw workflow inside of Lightroom 3. New tools were added to Lightroom 3 that can really improve your images.
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Lightroom 4 and Windows XP
23 Jan 2012 | 9:52 amI’ve seen quite a few comments about the fact that Lightroom 4 Beta doesn’t work with Windows XP (and you can probably guess that the full version isn’t going to work with it either). Last week Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) wrote about the reasons behind that decision on his blog. Here’s a quick snippet but you can go here to read the rest: “As many have noticed, the Lightroom 4 public beta we released last week does not support Windows XP. This decision did not come lightly and was based on a number of factors. With each version of Lightroom, our goal… -
Lightroom Video – Using External Drives
19 Jan 2012 | 10:32 amI saw a great question on my Facebook page the other day (btw… here’s my Google+ and Twitter pages too) and it’s one that I get asked quite a bit whenever I’m out teaching Lightroom. The question was basically this: let’s say you store all of your photos on an external drive (like I do). Eventually that drive gets full and you buy a larger drive. How do you get your photos to that new drive and make it so Lightroom can see them. Luckily it’s really simple and it works the same with just about any version of Lightroom. Check out the video below to see how. -
Lightroom 4 Beta and Photoshop-like Cloning and Healing?
17 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pmLast week, Tom Hogarty (Adobe’s Lightroom product manager) was in town for the Lightroom 4 Beta launch. He co-hosted 4 live webcasts with me throughout the day. As we looked through the list of questions on a break, I saw one that read “Why didn’t you include real cloning and healing tools in LR4 like Photoshop? Aren’t you just trying to keep it so we have to buy both?”. Tom saw the question and immediately said “Let’s take that one”. So we did and he had a great response to it. One I thought was worth a quick post because I think plenty of… -
New Lightroom 4 Presets – The HDR “Look”
16 Jan 2012 | 9:19 amI’ve mentioned before that coming up with new preset ideas has been pretty difficult these days. I feel like I’ve run through just about every preset combination possible in Lightroom. I mean, there’s only so many ways you can move a few sliders right It doesn’t take long before they all start looking the same (maybe with just a different name). That’s why I was really psyched when I saw the Lightroom 4 changed some of the Develop module settings. Mainly because the changes are fantastic and help me edit my photos better. But, if I’m really being honest… -
My Lightroom 4 Doesn’t Look Like Your Lightroom 4
13 Jan 2012 | 9:18 amIn poking around forums, etc… I’ve seen a bunch of questions over the last few days about people not seeing the new Develop Module sliders in Lightroom 4 Beta (specifically the ones in the Basic Panel). In LR4, Adobe changed the Basic panel to include sliders that 1) Make more sense and, 2) Are way more powerful. However, because they’ve changed them so much you can indeed have two versions of the Basic panel because they couldn’t automatically switch older photos for you. So here’s the deal: Your Basic panel should like like the image below: (click for larger…
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The weekend sale – 40% off!
27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amThe weekend sale – 40% off! What else needs to be said … ? Take 40% off everything in the shop! NOW is the time to get the goods! Discount applied at checkout. The X-Equals Big Box now only $23.99 Get everything you see below for only $23.99. This is the best deal we offer. A complete platform for rocking your workflow and getting creative. If you were to buy everything below separately you’d have to drop over $60. Don’t do that. Save 40% now and get the whole toolkit for only $23.99 XeL Local Adjustments – now only $8.99 XeL Local Adjustments provides an… -
DVD/Download Review – Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond
29 Dec 2011 | 9:56 amDVD/Download Review – Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond So, the holiday season has breezed right past, and surely that passing storm dropped off more than a few copies of Lightroom. You may be a new Lightroom user that has stumbled across X-Equals in an effort to further educate yourself in the arcane arts of Lightroom. You might have bought a copy of Lightroom for someone you love, or you may just be one of our regular readers dropping by to see what’s up. Either way, I want to share with you a product I got acquainted with over the holiday, one that may just be what you or someone… -
Gear Review – Optech Pro Strap
9 Nov 2011 | 8:08 amGear Review – Optech Pro Strap Anybody who owns a heavy camera knows the painful feeling in the neck and shoulders after hauling it around for a whole day. The first thing that many beginners struggle with is finding a comfortable way of carrying their camera for hours on end so they can enjoy taking photographs. This is where the Optech Pro strap comes in. Made out of neoprene, the Optech Pro allows the cameras weight to be distributed more comfortably across the shoulder or neck compared with the standard OEM strap. From the Optech website … The PRO STRAP™ is rapidly becoming… -
$19.99 – XeL – Black and White Toolkit
20 Oct 2011 | 10:43 pm$19.99 – XeL – Black and White Toolkit We’re so amped to bring you another innovative addition to the XeL Family! Sample image from XeL: Black and White Cold Storage Films XeL:Black and White is the culmination of a year’s worth or research, analysis, development and testing – representing a major milestone release in support of the innovative X-Equals XeL platform. XeL:Black and White breaks free from the traditional approach to Lightroom presets – utilizing a modular approach that allows users to quickly and efficiently create stunning black and white images… -
Creating Panorama’s with Lightroom
13 Oct 2011 | 4:25 pmCreating Panorama’s with Lightroom A little while ago I did a panoramic stitch of Rotterdam covered in beautiful hazy autumn light. Since I received a lot of positive responses and even a few question on how I did it, I’ll be explaining the process of making a panoramic photo using this photo as an example: {click on the image to enlarge} The basics So … what will you be putting in your camera pack? Any digital camera will work, but I prefer my images – and panoramas – as sharp as possible. So if you have a DSLR, use that. If not, you can go for something smaller…
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Lightroom 4 and Windows XP
17 Jan 2012 | 11:10 amAs many have noticed, the Lightroom 4 public beta we released last week does not support Windows XP. This decision did not come lightly and was based on a number of factors. With each version of Lightroom, our goal is always to provide a consistently excellent customer experience. Developing and testing across Operating System versions and platforms to ensure that we’re achieving this goal is a significant effort that takes time and resources. XP is substantially different from Windows Vista and Windows 7, and requires a independent testing matrix, which increases the complexity… -
Lightroom 4 beta resources
9 Jan 2012 | 11:32 pmThis is a list of various resources dedicated to educating photographers about Lightroom 4 public beta. Please submit additional content through the comment field and I’ll add them to the list. Adobe maintains an official YouTube channel that provides information about Lightroom 4 public beta but it’s often helpful to review other resources for a different perspective. http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/ (Adobe’s Lightroom Evangelist, Julieanne Kost) http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom4 http://www.lynda.com/tutorials/96215-2.html (Free Lynda.com 2 hour introduction)… -
Lightroom 4 beta now available
9 Jan 2012 | 11:05 pmThe Lightroom team is proud to introduce the fourth major version of the product designed for and by photographers. It was 6 years ago today when we introduced the very first public beta of Lightroom at MacWorld on January 9, 2006. (Yes, it was Mac only, smaller in footprint than most raw files and didn’t have a crop tool!) Since 2006 we’ve been hard at work improving an application that’s intended to be as easy to use as it is powerful. This release builds on the fundamental performance architecture and image quality improvements in Lightroom 3 to provide a truly complete workflow… -
DNG History and Summary
7 Jan 2012 | 11:07 pmBarry Pearson has recently posted a number of blog posts outlining his experience learning and writing about the DNG format since it was introduced. They’re an excellent resources so I’ve added links/summaries to his posts below. DNG Part 1 – Seven years of writing about Digital Negative Format This article provides the background on all of the material Barry has written on the DNG format DNG Part 2 – Timeline for the Digital Negative Format The timeline of major DNG announcements is covered as well as this interesting tidbit: “During the first 5 years when about… -
Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 Now Available
12 Dec 2011 | 11:12 pmLightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles. New Camera Support Canon PowerShot S100 Fuji FinePix X10 Leica V-LUX 3 Nikon 1 V1 Nikon 1 J1 Panasonic DMC-GX1 Ricoh GR Digital IV Samsung NX5 Samsung NX200 Sony NEX-7 New Lens Profile Support Lens Mount Lens Name Canon Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 DG HSM II Canon Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM II Canon Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro Canon Sigma 105mm…
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New site coming soon!
13 Jan 2012 | 11:21 amClick here to view the embedded video. NEW SITE COMING SOON. In the meantime, download and enjoy the Lightroom 4 Beta http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/
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Catalog Management
27 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pmHi all, While tidying up my computer I noticed that I have 2 catalog folders for my Lightroom (LR3). One hasn't been accessed since October 2010, so I'm assuming that was when I upgraded from LR2 to LR3. The more recent is the one currently in use by LR, and the only one that will load. It's size is 624Mb, while the older file is 2.74Gb. I'd like to delete the old one as it's taking up a lot of space but am a bit wary getting rid of such a large file in case it contains essential info. Can any of you technical gurus enlighten me please? Cheers -
Order By Colour
27 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pmI have 30.000 images, now I want to start deleting those which are either too black or too white. Next, ideally I would like to see all images I have shot which include a blue sky...so I´d like to filter by Blue being the main colour within images... Is there such a functionality (eg: colour slider or other alternative) in this fabulous tool? Thanks! -
Going from PC to Mac
27 Jan 2012 | 5:14 pmI have really started to notice that my PC is lagging, especially when I try to load RAW shots in LR. Now I am thinking of upgrading and purchasing a new Mac Pro. I am working from an external hard drive, the catalog and all my photos are saved to it. After I get a Mac and purchase the Mac version of LR, will I be able to just plug the external HD in and be ready to go? Thanks for any insight you can provide. Thomas -
flagging photos
27 Jan 2012 | 4:32 pmWhen I flag a photo in lightroom 3 and then sync the catalog to my NAS, shouldn't my sync software see the change to the catalog and sync the updates? I just tested this and it didn't see any change to the catalog. Thanks Carson -
moving more pictures into a currently used catalog
27 Jan 2012 | 2:32 pmHello, If you have a accomplished a major move and have pictures in a "michael" catalog, is it possible to import more pictures into michael from another folder inside another catalog located elsewhere on that same hard drive? Thank YOu, Michael
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You’ve Got Mail
23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am“Oh, yes, wait a minute Mister Postman…” It’s been some time since those lyrics came out of speakers everywhere. Yet, mail, in its many forms, is still an important means of communication. Today, of course, we use email. In previous versions of Lightroom there was an email export preset that helped to gather images that we could attach to our emails. We soon discovered that some email clients would accept the output of the export preset and we added them as the Post-processing action and that smoothed the workflow a bit. Lightroom 4 Beta has added an email feature which… -
A Catalog In The Cloud Revisited
22 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pmSome time ago I offered a solution to working with a catalog on multiple computers utilizing Dropbox to store the catalog. Take a look at A Catalog In The Cloud in case you missed it. I mentioned that this wasn’t a solution for the multi-photographer studio but it could be useful if your images are housed on an external drive and you like to work from multiple computers. The cloud based catalog has the advantage that all of the changes you make reside there and are accessible to your various computers. If you are using a free Dropbox account (you get 2GB free when you sign up!) you will… -
An Ingenious Approach to Video in Lightroom 4 Beta
16 Jan 2012 | 6:29 amOne of the exciting new features in Lightroom 4 Beta is its enhanced video capabilities! If you’ve had a chance to play with this feature you have already discovered that a few of the adjustments for video are only contained in the Develop module. This presents a problem since video itself is not supported directly in the Develop module. The current solution to this mentioned on the many sites covering Lightroom is to take a still from the video, bring that into the Develop module, and apply the additional adjustments to that still image. Once you are satisfied with the result you can… -
Lightroom 4 Public Beta Is Here!
9 Jan 2012 | 11:01 amHappy Birthday Lightroom! How nice of you to give us a gift on your special day! That’s right, Lightroom 4 Beta is ready for you to play with. You can download your copy at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/. As you discover new things and want to get involved in the conversation then head over to http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/lightroom4/. The Lightroom team is eager to hear what you have to say, good or bad, so don’t be shy! As a reminder THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE!!!!! So please do not use this against any of your original images. Make separate copies of some… -
Happy Birthday, Lightroom!
9 Jan 2012 | 5:48 amLightroom appeared on the photographic landscape just 6 short years ago. Birthdays are often an occasion to look back and reminisce so here’s a quick walk down memory lane! Lightroom 1 “Shadowland” Lightroom 2 “Silvertone” Lightroom 3 “Strangelove” Happy Birthday, Lightroom! And many more! Copyright © — Gene McCullagh ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Adobe® and Lightroom® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Lightroom Secrets is independently published and not endorsed or sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. (Digital…
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Getting used to the PV2012 Develop Sliders?
18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 amThe Lightroom 4 beta was released just over a week ago. Are you getting used to the changes? The new Develop controls undoubtedly take a little getting used to, particularly if you’ve used ACR or Lightroom for some years. There are some great tutorials on the new Develop sliders, so we won’t reinvent the wheel here, but how about a quick summary to help you remember? Forget everything you know and treat it like a new program – it basically is. All of the sliders now work the same way – moving to the left darkens, moving to the right lightens. Try working from the top… -
Where’s the Lightroom 4 book?
9 Jan 2012 | 3:14 pmDon’t worry, Adobe Lightroom 4 – The Missing FAQ is a work in progress, and it’s coming together nicely. You’ll see it soon! I’m undecided whether to release a rough cut this time, or focus on making sure the final release is completed and ready for release at the same time as Lightroom 4. Probably the latter, this time, for a number of reasons: Unlike the Lightroom 3 beta, which was an 8 month, 2 version, early feature preview, the Lightroom 4 beta is expected to be of normal length. Releasing a rough cut takes a lot of extra time, and resulted in the final… -
What’s New in Lightroom 4.0 Beta?
9 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pmAdobe have just announced the release of Adobe Lightroom 4.0 Public Beta! Here’s the official announcement: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/ And the download link, of course! http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/ And finally the forums: Official Adobe Beta Forum and Lightroom Forums The Lightroom team have been busy – very busy – so it’s a looooooong list. If you don’t have time to read it all right now, the highlights are marked in red. System Specs The minimum system specs have been updated for Lightroom 4. This allows testing… -
What are your Lightroom goals for 2012?
5 Jan 2012 | 5:14 amAll is quiet in the Lightroom world this morning – the calm before the storm perhaps. But it’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s a good time to stop and reflect. There have been some excellent posts on two of my favourite Lightroom blogs, talking about getting Lightroom ready for the new year and updating your copyright metadata, but tell me, what are YOUR plans for Lightroom for 2012? Is there a specific Lightroom feature you want to master? Perhaps you want to make your workflow more efficient? Do you need to improve your backup strategy? How about creating photo books… -
Prize Draw Winners!
29 Nov 2011 | 1:30 pmThe survey is officially closed, and I can’t thank you enough. There were more than 1000 responses! SurveyGizmo, the survey tool I used, has provided me with a huge report detailing all of your replies, which I’m still working my way though. It also provided a separate spreadsheet of the names and address of everyone who wanted to be entered into the prize draw – all 823 of you. Since the response was far bigger than expected, I decided to give away not just 1, but 8 eBook bundles so you had about a 1/100 chance of winning. To be absolutely fair, I asked Random Number…
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Why I Think Lightroom 4 is Going To Sell Like Crazy
26 Jan 2012 | 11:03 pmI’ve been working with Lightroom 4 Public Beta quite a bit (OK, a bunch), and I can tell you exactly why I think this there is going to be a tidal wave of people upgrading to Lightroom 4 when it comes out, and it’s the most basic reason of all: Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period. At the end of the day, that’s what we all want. We just want our photos to look better, and if somebody comes up with something that can make our photos look significantly better, we’re going to be all over it. Lightroom 4 does exactly that. The improvements in… -
This is a Workshop I Would Love to Attend!
26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pmI just learned about this week long workshop, taught by night photography expert, Gabe Biderman and Rocky Mountain School of Photography instructor and landscape photographer Tim Cooper, and once I read about what they’re doing, I was dying to go!!!! You spend your days in the classroom with Gabe and Tim learning about the camera techniques and post processing for night photography (along with image reviews), and then at night you’re on location in some amazing locales in an intense 6-day total immersion into night photography. What I really loved about this (beside the… -
Light It Magazine, Issue 5 Now Available
25 Jan 2012 | 11:02 pmIssue 5 of Light It Magazine is now available! Brad Moore here to tell you a little about it This issue features tips from Jim Schmelzer on the importance of subtractive lighting: Photo Recipes from Scott Kelby: My personal favorite, the Gear Watch section : Plus Tom Bol on sports portraiture, Erik Valind on high-speed sync with small flash, Kevin Ames on reflectance, Jason Groupp on what to do with stage lighting during wedding receptions, an interview with Frank Doorhof, sixty seconds with stock photographer Nicole S. Young, and work from featured photographers Sean… -
It’s Free Stuff Thursday!
25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pmHey everyone, Brad Moore here with another edition of Free Stuff Thursday! Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. Live! Scott Kelby is bringing his Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. Live Tour to Austin on Monday, January 30, so leave a comment for your chance to win a free ticket! Also, keep an eye out for new dates in Atlanta and Tampa to be added soon! Photo Pro Expo After Austin, Scott is heading to Cincinnati to speak at the Photo Pro Expo on Sunday, February 5. Make sure you come see Scott speak alongside other instructors like Jerry Ghionis, Vincent LaForet, Lindsey Adler, Joel Grimes, Skip… -
It’s Guest Blog Wednesday with Patrick LaMontagne!
24 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pmAs much as I appreciate the invite, it likely seems odd that somebody who shoots on automatic with a Nikon D60 would be writing anything on Scott Kelby’s blog. Despite my own ineptitude behind a lens, many of my close friends are photographers. Just don’t ask me what an ISO is or how to use a speed light, and don’t expect me to join you on a 3am photo walk in Vegas. Fool me once. I’m a cartoonist, illustrator, and painter, and in addition to a pencil and sketchbook, my tools of the trade are Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. What may surprise you is that I had never…
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Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s New Book Module to Create a PDF Portfolio
9 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pmAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s New Book ModuleAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Book ModuleWhen I heard about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s new Book Module I was not too excited. I thought that it could only be used to prepare books for printing from Blurb.com. Ordering nice bound books of my photography is great, but this is not something that I do on a regular basis and I thought I would rarely use it.Once I started experimenting, though, I quickly discovered that you can also use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s new Book Module to create your own PDF… -
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s Big Develop Module Changes
9 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pmNew Features In The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Develop ModuleAdobe Photoshop Lightroom v4 Beta New Graduated Filter ControlsEach version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom introduces exciting new tools for serious photographers and Lightroom 4 Beta is no different. This time, the software engineering team has introduced some new features and improved some old ones, like the chromatic aberration repair tool. The biggest change to Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s image Develop Module are the new sliders that the 2012 Process Version uses in the Basic Panel.New 2012 Process Version Basic Panel… -
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s New Map Module
9 Jan 2012 | 7:24 pmWhat Does the New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Map Module Do?Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Map ModuleAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta introduces an awesome new way to search and organize digital photographs, making it easy to work with digital images and GPS data. Photographers using cameras that automatically record GPS data are going to instantly love this new feature. For the rest of us, assigning GPS data to your images without leaving Photoshop Lightroom is easy and there is no need for additional equipment. Simply clicking and dragging an image onto the map will… -
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Library Module Enhancements
9 Jan 2012 | 7:22 pmWhat’s New in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Library Module?Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Library ModuleThere are dozens of new features and improvements inside of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4. The most noticeable changes to those who are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v3 are the new Map Module and the new Book Module. Current Photoshop Lightroom users will also notice some huge changes within the Develop Module.Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Offers Basic Video Editing CapabilitiesPhotographers working with video files will be delighted to learn that Adobe… -
Introducing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Version 4 Beta!
9 Jan 2012 | 11:05 amAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Now AvailableA public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now available! You can download a test copy of the new software from this link to the
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My Last Lightroom 4 Beta Webinar — This Weekend!
26 Jan 2012 | 11:41 amWondering what the Lightroom 4 Beta looks like and/or how to use the new features successfully? I still have some spots left in this FREE 90 minute webinar, Saturday January 28 at 10:00 a.m. PST (6:00 PM GMT.) This is my last one on the Beta! Register here: If you can’t attend, you will find a recording of an earlier one here: Lightroom 4 Beta Recorded Webinar. -
Soft Proofing in Lightroom 4 with the Original Next to the Proof
25 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pmSoft proofing is new in the Develop module of Lightroom 4 (the Beta at this point). It allows you to get a better idea of what your photo will look like in print when printing with profiles, and what it will look like when you export to sRGB or another color space. If your photo has richly saturated colors, for example, when you soft-proof you will see them become muted, since many printers and papers, as well as sRGB, can’t display them so saturated. When you print to paper, your photos will also lose contrast, as paper whites are never as bright as monitor whites. Soft proofing allows… -
Lightroom Video Tip of the Week: Using the Spot Removal Tool to Get Back What You Cropped Out!
19 Jan 2012 | 5:04 pmDo any of these happen to you? You have to crop a photo, perhaps because it isn’t straight or you applied lens corrections, but the crop cuts out something you really need? Something in your photo is right on the edge of the photo, and needs to be moved up a bit? You need to fix two things that are really close to each other, and the spot removal tool won’t let you? If so, you will want to watch my 5 minute video here showing some cool tips for using the Lightroom spot removal tool. They won’t always work, but when they do they are quite handy. These tips apply to all… -
Black and White Film Is Not Dead!
17 Jan 2012 | 8:14 pmTo be honest, I don’t download a lot of presets from the internet. I personally have limited mental bandwidth for add-ons, and there are so many out there that they can be hard to sift through. However, I agree that done right, they can add great value. It can be very efficient to use a good creative preset or set of presets, since I can get 90% of the way towards making a photo look great with just one or a handful of clicks in one panel rather than having to sift through all of Lightroom’s Develop sliders, plus I can get cool looks that I never would have thought of… -
Recorded Lightroom 4 Beta Webinar Now Available
16 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pmIn this 65 minute video from my January 11 Lightroom 4 Beta webinar, I give you a tour of the new features, and explain the basics of how to use them. I wish the audio quality were better, but it is what it is — rest assured that my Lightroom DVD products have higher quality audio and video. (Note: I have also added one more free live webinar, for Saturday, January 28. Click here for details and sign up.) Please enter your email below to be redirected to this and other free videos. (If you are not already on it, this will add you to my newsletter, from which you can unsubscribe at any…
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Lightroom 4.0 Blurb Bookmaking Module
27 Jan 2012 | 1:18 amBig News Lightroom / Blurb Bookmaking Module !! With the Public Beta release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0 find some significant application improvements, important enhancements and new features that have been added for organizing, processing and presenting your images. Big News Lightroom / Blurb Bookmaking Module !!! Download this Blurb Bookmaking intro Video! -
Blurb’s plug-ins for Lightroom!
17 Oct 2011 | 1:50 amLightroom guru, Jerry Courvoisier, of Lightroomworkshops.com introduces Blurb’s plug-ins for Lightroom® and explains what they can bring to your bookmaking experience. Learn the key differences between the plug-ins for BookSmart and Bookify and find out which one will work best for your project. http://www.blurb.com/help/video/lightroom_plugin <iframe width=”425″ height=”349″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/eBMqug8QQW8?hl=en&fs=1″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> -
oh, I’ll fix that in lightroom or photoshop
19 Sep 2011 | 4:57 pmPreventing Editing Overload Yes we all thought that when we were free of film and processing, we had arrived at a no-cost free zone—after the original expense of the digital camera. The computer system that processed our images was going to extend our creativity into new horizons. We started to take pictures of anything and everything. The downside of the “I can have everything” attitude, though, was spending a lot more time in front of a computer screen editing images rather then paying attention to the details in the camera viewfinder and getting it right from the start. … -
Schedule of 2-Day, “Hands On” Lightroom Workshops in Sept.
2 Sep 2011 | 2:48 pmwww.lightroomworkshops.com Sept 17 – 18 Sat – Sun Pasadena, Ca w/ Jerry Courvoisier Sept 17 – 18 Sat – Sun Dallas/Ft Worth W/ Nevada Wier Sept 24 – 25 Sat – Sun Milwaukee, WS W/ Jennifer Spelman Sept 24 – 25 Sat – Sun Boston, MA W/ Rob Sylvan Sept 24 – 25 Sat – Sun Chicago / Arlington Hts W/Jerry Courvoisier -
Lightroom Versus Bridge?
25 Aug 2011 | 3:59 pmLightroomworkshops.com Lightroom Versus Bridge? At this point you might be asking yourself, “why would I prefer to use Lightroom if the Bridge product that comes with Photoshop can do many of the same functions?” allow me to explain a few of the difference between the two applications. Bridge is a “File Browser” designed to work with many different file formats in its display. It is structured to support the complete line of Adobe Creative Suite products, including InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and so on. So, Bridge is a file browser application…
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips
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Lightroom 4 and Windows XP
23 Jan 2012 | 9:52 amI’ve seen quite a few comments about the fact that Lightroom 4 Beta doesn’t work with Windows XP (and you can probably guess that the full version isn’t going to work with it either). Last week Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) wrote about the reasons behind that decision on his blog. Here’s a quick snippet but you can go here to read the rest: “As many have noticed, the Lightroom 4 public beta we released last week does not support Windows XP. This decision did not come lightly and was based on a number of factors. With each version of Lightroom, our goal… -
Lightroom Video – Using External Drives
19 Jan 2012 | 10:32 amI saw a great question on my Facebook page the other day (btw… here’s my Google+ and Twitter pages too) and it’s one that I get asked quite a bit whenever I’m out teaching Lightroom. The question was basically this: let’s say you store all of your photos on an external drive (like I do). Eventually that drive gets full and you buy a larger drive. How do you get your photos to that new drive and make it so Lightroom can see them. Luckily it’s really simple and it works the same with just about any version of Lightroom. Check out the video below to see how. -
Lightroom 4 Beta and Photoshop-like Cloning and Healing?
17 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pmLast week, Tom Hogarty (Adobe’s Lightroom product manager) was in town for the Lightroom 4 Beta launch. He co-hosted 4 live webcasts with me throughout the day. As we looked through the list of questions on a break, I saw one that read “Why didn’t you include real cloning and healing tools in LR4 like Photoshop? Aren’t you just trying to keep it so we have to buy both?”. Tom saw the question and immediately said “Let’s take that one”. So we did and he had a great response to it. One I thought was worth a quick post because I think plenty of… -
New Lightroom 4 Presets – The HDR “Look”
16 Jan 2012 | 9:19 amI’ve mentioned before that coming up with new preset ideas has been pretty difficult these days. I feel like I’ve run through just about every preset combination possible in Lightroom. I mean, there’s only so many ways you can move a few sliders right It doesn’t take long before they all start looking the same (maybe with just a different name). That’s why I was really psyched when I saw the Lightroom 4 changed some of the Develop module settings. Mainly because the changes are fantastic and help me edit my photos better. But, if I’m really being honest… -
My Lightroom 4 Doesn’t Look Like Your Lightroom 4
13 Jan 2012 | 9:18 amIn poking around forums, etc… I’ve seen a bunch of questions over the last few days about people not seeing the new Develop Module sliders in Lightroom 4 Beta (specifically the ones in the Basic Panel). In LR4, Adobe changed the Basic panel to include sliders that 1) Make more sense and, 2) Are way more powerful. However, because they’ve changed them so much you can indeed have two versions of the Basic panel because they couldn’t automatically switch older photos for you. So here’s the deal: Your Basic panel should like like the image below: (click for larger…
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Test Driving the Lightroom 4 Public Beta
9 Jan 2012 | 11:43 pmOK, I’m sure you are curious about jumping into the driver’s seat and giving this new version of Lightroom a few laps around the block. There’s a lot of cool stuff in here, and if you have been using Lightroom for awhile you should feel very much at home, but there are a few things I want to mention before you go too far. I want to help you get started with testing this on the right foot. Yes, this is beta software, which means there are bugs and it is limited in some ways to help protect your existing data, so please proceed with caution and keep this in mind: The public… -
My 2012 LightroomWorkshops Schedule
8 Jan 2012 | 4:05 pmHope your 2012 is off to a great start! Always hard to believe a new year has rolled around once again. I just wanted to share my 2012 workshop calendar as it stands so far: Atlanta, GA Feb 4-5 Newark, NJ Feb 25-26 Boston, MA Mar 3-4 Hartford, CT Mar 31-Apr1 Charlotte, NC May 5-6 Philadelphia, PA May 19-20 Baltimore, MD June 2-3 Those are just my dates, but there may be another workshop happening in a city near you. Check out the full schedule and use the code ROBVIP when you sign up to save $50. I also have a 4 week online Lightroom class that starts the first Friday of every month and is… -
Adobe Carousel now available in the app store
27 Oct 2011 | 12:21 pmAfter a longer than expected wait since the initial announcement Adobe Carousel finally appeared in the Mac App Store for the Mac and iTunes App Store for iPhone/iPad. I recently wrote about my take on the Carousel app and I encourage anyone who is curious about this new platform to download the app onto all of your Mac devices and give it a try. The app itself is free and there is a 30 day free trial for the subscription service. All features and functions are fully operational during the trial and there is no better way to get a handle on what this app is all about. I’m happy to… -
Migrating You Lightroom Catalog and Photos to a New Computer
1 Oct 2011 | 8:48 amThis is a reprint of my Jan/Feb 2011 feature article in Photoshop User magazine. A subscription to Photoshop User magazine is benefit of becoming a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. You can join NAPP and get Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers and a Lightroom Killer Tips Preset CD as a signup bonus. There comes giddy a time in every Lightroom user’s life when you will purchase a new computer. I’ve broken out the components you need to consider to get from old to new with a minimum amount of angst and a maximum… -
A hands-on look at Adobe Carousel
16 Sep 2011 | 1:27 pmI’ve had a chance to play around with a pre-release version of Carousel, Adobe’s new platform for viewing, sharing and editing your photos across any number of supported (Mac only at the moment) devices (disclosure, I’m working on a small eBook about Carousel for Adobe Press). I thought it might be helpful to share some of my impressions and how I’ve come to use this platform within my existing photo workflow. I had the pleasure of attending Photoshop World last week where Carousel was announced, and as a result engaged in a lot of discussions about Carousel with a lot…
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Lens Acronyms
27 Jan 2012 | 8:21 amI was talking to Marg who, proudly, showed me that she just discovered that her lens was also a macro. It's one of these, wide angle to extra tele, all in one lens (no name mentioned). The “macro” is not a macro mode, I would call it a close-up mode and that's not even that close. Then I looked at her lens… so many acronyms Canon Acronym Almost sensible wording Explanation AF AutoFocus Provides auto-focus AFD Arc Form Drive Old design, slower auto-focusing AL Aspheric Lens Used to minimize aberrations CA Circular Aperture lenses Aperture blades to give as circular an iris shape as… -
Packing List
26 Jan 2012 | 8:15 amDid you ever forgot to take… for a very important photo session or for a trip? I did, I realized that I forgot to take my flash cables (at the time, we only used cables, there were no Pocket Wizards) and forgot the extra batteries to make it worth. That's why I created my photographic equipment list. All of my photo gear is in a chest All the boxes or unused equipment or monopods, tripods are in a separate closet Almost all of my “everyday” is already in the backpack Do I use my list everyday? No, because many items are in small pouches. I use my list occasionally, but it has saved my… -
Lightroom: You Have a Bad Backup
25 Jan 2012 | 8:10 amDo you have a backup? The vast majority of the people do not even have a backup. My personal experience is that less than 1 in 10 people do have a backup. The problem is that people that claim to have a backup, actually have a bad backup! People claim that they have RAID 1, 5 or 10 or they use a Drobo box. Those are not backups. The purpose of a backup is: What's the cost of re-entering the data? — Syv Ritch, http://www.foto-biz.com A guy, that I know, does weddings. He just raised his price from $199 to $249 per wedding. 2 hours, all the photos taken as JPEG in camera. He sends the… -
Waiting for the Photo
24 Jan 2012 | 8:20 amWhen dealing with portraits, weddings, seniors… the photographer arrives, setups and starts taking the photos. But often, we don't have such a control, we are all setup, ready and we have to wait, wait and wait… until the right moment. The question is what's the right moment? Everybody defines it differently. For me, it's a gut instinct, sometimes it feels right, but mostly it feels almost right. That's when I start. What about you? Do you wait or do you chase after the photo? Photographers Waiting for Something to Happen click on image for gallery In fact, there are two… -
I Copy Everything
23 Jan 2012 | 8:33 amThe photography business is all about copying what the other does. The current “fad” is HDR. In the “good old days”, every landscape was taken with 2 to 3 color polarizer. Now, all the weddings are “documentary style”… Photographers often get a friend or a family member to call their competition and ask for the prices… then copy it almost exactly. The best that happened to me was: when people shoot from over my shoulder, literally, which not too difficult since I'm often on my knees. The worst was just a week ago, when a “turkey” instead of going behind me, just went…
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More flexible upgrades from CS3 or CS4
13 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pmIn response to customer concerns, Adobe has improved upgrade options for CS3 and CS4 customers. While subscription plans offer some big benefits for future versions, a lot of users don’t want to make that leap just yet. So you’ll be able to purchase a standard upgrade until the end of the year. John Nack’s excellent post lays out all the options. -
Add a border to a photo in Lightroom
26 Oct 2011 | 5:51 pmMany people like a border around their photos. The way to do this isn’t obvious in Lightroom, because there’s no border option when you export photos. One trick is to do it through the Print module. Here’s how: In the Library module, select the photo you want to have a border, then switch to the Print module. In the Template Browser on the left side of the application, select a Single Image template the correlates to the size you want the photo to be, such as 4 x 6 or 8 x 10. In the Image Settings panel on the right side of the application, select Stroke Border. Specify a Width of the… -
Export to the web from Lightroom
24 Oct 2011 | 12:40 pmIn a continuing effort to improve Lightroom Community Help, I’ve rewritten the instructions for how to export photos using the Publish Services panel. I made each service on its own page/topic, and added links to relevant community videos and support docs to each page: Export from Lightroom to Facebook Export from Lightroom to Flickr Export from Lightroom to SmugMug Export from Lightroom to Photoshop.com Export to Hard Drive using Publish Services Hopefully, this structure is simpler and more straightforward. Pick your service; read the instructions; bookmark it. -
What is that question mark next to my photos in Lightroom?
4 Oct 2011 | 1:58 pmWe hear the question all the time: “What is that question mark next to my photos in Lightroom?” Sometimes, the question takes a more panicked form: “Where did my photos go??? Lightroom lost my photos. Help!” Don’t worry. Lightroom will find them. If you move photos in the OS away from the location where Lightroom thinks they are, Lightroom loses the link to them. When that happens, you’ll see a little question-mark icon in the image thumbnail in the Library module, and in the Develop module, you’ll see a big message: “The file named XXX is offline or missing.”… -
Convincing color changes, redux
3 Oct 2011 | 12:05 pmWhen you want to change the color of objects in an image, you might first reach for Photoshop’s Color Replacement tool. But that’s not always the best approach. For more effective and flexible alternatives, check out these techniques: Dave Cross compares two approaches to color replacement Deke McClelland targets and tweaks a specific color range Photoshop Help walks through all the alternative approaches
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Adobe Lightroom Training Workshops
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Big News Lightroom / Blurb Bookmaking Module !!
10 Jan 2012 | 2:22 amWith the Public Beta release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0 find some significant application improvements, important enhancements and new features that have been added for organizing, processing and presenting your images. Big News Lightroom / Blurb Bookmaking Module !!! Download this Blurb Bookmaking intro Video! -
Lightroom Workshops in 2012
8 Jan 2012 | 8:55 amTwo-Day Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workshop Intensives in 2012 Participants Learn this Essential Photographic Digital Application “by Doing and walk away Knowing” in Cities throughout the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada SANTA FE, NM, January, 2012—Lightroom Workshops, a series of two-day Adobe Photoshop Lightroom application intensives are being offered throughout the United States, Australia, UK, and Canada in 2012. These unique hands-on digital photography application workshops are led by one of four award-winning digital photography experts, Jerry Courvoisier,… -
New Lightroom Full Stop Newsletter – Sign-up Now !
1 Dec 2011 | 5:09 pmSign up for the New “Lightroom Full Stop” bi monthly newsletter starting in January 2012. All Newsletter sign-ups will be eligible for our monthly product giveaways. The Lightroom Full Stop Newsletter will highlight what’s new with: links to training resources, product reviews, Free Tips & Tutorials, Photography related events, sponsor discounts offers and special Lightroom Expert contributor articles. Sign up today using this link lightroomworkshops.com/contacts to be one of the first to review the January newsletter! Start off the new year with everything Lightroom… -
2012 Calendars Lightroom 3.0 Print Module templates
16 Nov 2011 | 12:33 amLightroom 3.0 Print Module templates for creating your own 2012 calendars. Please, feel free to download the instructional Video, the Jewel Case Calendar template jpegs and the Lightroom print templates. All the best in the New Year!! Jerry Courvoisier Productions llc Download Link to the whole Zip Package. 2012_CD_Calendar_project.zip ( 21.1mb) Click Here Once downloaded to your computer Parent Folder called: 2012_CD_Calendar_project With 3 Subfolders called2012_calendar_jpegs containing the template jpegs. LRW-2012_Print_Templates containing the Lightroom print module… -
Blurb’s BookSmart and Bookify plug-ins for Lightroom 3.0
17 Oct 2011 | 1:31 amLightroom guru, Jerry Courvoisier,of Lightroomworkshops.com introduces Blurb’s plug-ins for Lightroom® and explains what they can bring to your bookmaking experience. Learn the key differences between the plug-ins for BookSmart and Bookify and find out which one will work best for your project. http://www.blurb.com/help/video/lightroom_plugin
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Lightroom - Latest Comments
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help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WS75C39DDC-B701-4840-A703-075...
27 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pmI am in the process of exporting images from Lightroom to a folder on my desktop. In the middle of sending the different images Lightroom has stopped exporting. The dialog comes up, I make sure all the info is correct, click the export button and nothing happens. No progress bar up in the nameplate. What can I do to prevent this, I have many images that need to be moved. Moderator note: this type of issue can be answered more effectively in the user-to-user forums at http://forums.adobe.com -
help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WSC09A070C-703A-47ca-B473-624...
27 Jan 2012 | 2:38 pmMake sure you're in the lowest level folder (i.e. no subfolders) or make a collection. From there you can reorder the photos. Finally press F2 to call up the rename dialog. -
tv.adobe.com/watch/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-beta/develop-module-advanc...
27 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pmThe lens correction tool is really good when you use the profiles. I wonder what you're missing that makes you think it's not? -
tv.adobe.com/watch/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-beta/mapping-your-photos/
27 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pmNo the SDK won't provide for changing the Map provider. The license is with Google only. As for LR5, no idea. Again, you don't need to use Map at all, you can right click on the Module Picker and remove it from the list. -
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27 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pmYou can make virtual copies and have any amount of different trims. While you can't comine them together in LR4, you can run them in MPEG Streamclip for free via export and make a composite of these copies.
