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Hack No More! – The Lightroom 3 Tone Curve

When you launch Lightroom 3 and head over to the Develop Module, you may notice some minor differences from Lightroom 2. The point of interest today is located in the Tone Curve palette. At first glance you see the old, friendly Parametric Tone Curve tool Lightroom has had since day one. But look closer. At the bottom, [...]

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Hands on the Thermostat! – Color Temperature in Monochrome

When working with a monochrome conversion it is all too easy to simply rely on the Grayscale Mixer in Lightroom to help you achieved your desired tone. The Grayscale Mixer does a fantastic job of allowing you control over the tonality of your image, but only as it relates to a particular color [...]

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Lightroom Print Templates – Picture Packages

Everyone knows about Lightoom’s presets (if not you should). From Development Presets to Export Presets – presets make you life easier. However, in the print module there are not any presets, per se. Instead you have the ability to save templates, maintaining a layout of images for print jobs. Personally I do [...]

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Freezeframe – Editing Action Sequences in Lightroom

This workflow from our May 12th Email Digest was so popular I thought I’d pull it over to the blog as well. I’m still having a blast shooting sequences, and would love to hear how you folks are shooting them out in the field. I’m looking forward to your comments! Something new We ran a contest a while [...]

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Print and Onscreen – Color Spaces and ICC Profiles – Part 2 of 2

Last time we took a fairly in depth look at Color Spaces. We are not going to go quite so deep today, but I am going to take a few minutes of you time to skim over ICC Profiles. ICC Profiles are similar in function to Color Spaces, in that they define a finite range of [...]

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Print and Onscreen – Color Spaces and ICC Profiles – Part 1 of 2

In this special 2 Part series, I am going to delve deeper into the realm of Color Management. We have touched on the topics a few times, but have never dug into discussing Color Spaces or ICC profiles. In today’s post, I am going to take a look at Color Spaces, what they are and [...]

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Bending Lightroom Presets to Your Will

If you use Lightroom, then you’re most likely familiar with and frequently use presets. Some of you have even gotten your feet wet with designing you own presets. It’s easy activity to learn, but it is hard one to master! A lot of people work really hard to design great presets for you to use. Rarely will any given [...]

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Correcting Color Cast with Lightroom

Color casting is, quite possibly, one of the most frustrating issues you can have with an image. Regardless of how the image was captured, digitally or on film, you can easily run into issues with your lighting, leading to some major color issues. Even when utilizing RAW, you will occasionally run into color casts that are [...]

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Mastering HSL in Lightroom – Part 3 of 3

Now that we have learned the basics of the HSL in Part One and the general method of working with the HSL in Part Two, it is time to expand our horizons a bit. So far we have focused on using HSL to improve an image by attempting to get realistic colors that have been [...]

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Mastering HSL in Lightroom – Part 2 of 3

In the first part of Mastering HSL in Lightroom, we covered exactly what the HSL is and how it is used. If you spent some time experimenting with the Color Checker DNG we provided you should have some sense of how Hue, Saturation and Luminance interact with the different colors. If not, jump back to [...]

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