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Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 3 of 4

Welcome to Part 3 of Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom! So far in this series we have looked at the process required to organize (Part 1) and caption and filter your images (Part 2) to create a simple and easy to navigate Lightroom catalog. In this tutorial, Part 3 of the series, we [...]

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Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 2 of 4

In the Part 1 of this 4 part series, we had an in depth look at how to import your images from your camera into your Lightroom catalog. We looked at how by applying presets and folder structures we could start to create an easy to navigate image storage solution. In this second part of [...]

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Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 1 of 4

This is the first installment of a 4 part series of blog posts where we will be looking at taking your images through the Lightroom 4 workflow. In this first part of the series we will be looking at how to use the Import Controls in Lightroom 4 to organize your images and create back-ups. [...]

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Making the Eyes Pop in Lightroom 4

In the past we’ve covered making the eyes pop in Lightroom 3 using adjustment brushes, but the introduction of Lightroom 4 has made the entire process much faster and less complicated. Now, using the adjustment brush too and new preset, we can achieve the same—maybe better—results than in version 3. Lightroom 4 introduced adjustment brush [...]

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XeL: Black & White – Getting the Best Results

Today, I’m going to walk through some topics that have been inquired about by different users. It is quite likely that if one person is asking a question, many others are as well, so it seems in everyone’s best interests to shed some light on a few points. I want to leverage XeL to create [...]

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Creating 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 [...]

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Installing Presets in Lightroom

It has been a while since we have looked in depth at the process of installing Lightroom presets. Recent operating system upgrades (especially OS X Lion) have caused preset locations to change and/or become hidden from normal view. When we wrote up the documentation for of our currently available presets, we were primarily using Windows [...]

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Setting Your Settings – Tuning Lightroom – Part 3 of 3

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have covered most of the options presented to us in the Lightroom Preferences Dialog. Today, we will look at the Interface tab of Lightroom Preferences and take a look at Catalog Settings as well. So let us jump right in. Open up the Lightroom Preferences [...]

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Borders, and Frames, and Text! Oh my! – Pimping the Lightroom Print Module

Regular Lightroom users and readers of X-Equals are probably aware that with the introduction of custom picture packages in Lightroom 3, photographers gained additional tools for outputting their photographs whether destined for the printer or as a JPEG file. A lesser known feature of the Print module is the ability to add a simple frame [...]

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Setting Your Settings – Tuning Lightroom – Part 2 of 3

In Part 1 of Setting Your Settings – Tuning Lightroom, we covered the General and Presets tabs of the Lightroom Preferences dialog. Today we are going to look at the External Editing and File Handling tabs. Some of you have been asking how to get more performance out of Lightroom; today we will see how [...]

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