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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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Lightroom 4 Print Module Mastery with Craig Ferguson

Some of the biggest changes that appeared with the release of Lightroom 3 were improvements to the Print module. With a large variety of templates to choose from as well as the ability to easily create custom layouts, the Print module is more useful than it’s ever been. Start by selecting the photographs that you [...]

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DVD/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 [...]

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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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X-Equals HD Screencast – The PageDowner Technique

Welcome to our first X-Equals Screencast … coming at you in HD! Today we’re going to look a a lesser know feature that has been around since version 1.0 of Lightroom, and although I personally do not use it that often, it’s a great image inspection technique! Have you got a rocking timesaving tip? Share [...]

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The Photographers Toolbox – Lightroom Keyboard Tips

Lightroom is all about good, organized workflow practices that are easy and efficient to use. Whether you’re a working photographer faced with the task of selecting and editing from thousands of photos before a deadline or an enthusiastic amateur wanting to maximize shooting time, Lightroom offers a few useful ways to speed things up. Of [...]

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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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Lightroom Slideshows – learning what matters

One of Lightroom’s lesser used features is the Slideshow module. If you’re like the vast majority of Lightroom users, you probably spend most of your time in the Library and Develop modules, perhaps occasionally going into the Print module. The Slideshow module is often overlooked which is a pity because it has a number of [...]

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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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