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Advanced Dodging & Burning in Lightroom 4

Dodging and burning (or local exposure adjustment) is one of the fastest ways to improve your images, so it’s no wonder we use it a lot around here. It’s one of the oldest tricks in the books, and can do things like: Focus attention on the subject Shape and flatter the subject Increase dynamic range [...]

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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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Working with the Lightroom 4 Map Module

There are numerous reasons why you might want to geotag your photographs, and if you give me a couple of minutes, I may be able to think of one. Actually, ‘because you can’ is probably sufficient reason and, anyway, it’s nice to be able to see exactly where a picture that you like was taken [...]

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X-Equals XeL – Real World, Kick A** Results

Note from the Editor A week or so ago Jeff Tamagini posted this photo on Twitter – mentioning he leveraged XeL:Black and White in his workflow. Naturally, we took notice of such a sweet image and asked him to describe in more detail how he processed this shot. Lucky for all of us he accepted! [...]

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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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Working with the Lightroom 4 Book Module

Note from the Editor Graham Douglas is one of my favorite new Guest Writers. I totally love his new piece on using the Lightroom Book Module – hopefully you will feel the same. As always, please share your thoughts in the comments below. Now … on to the knowledge bomb! Working with the the Lightroom [...]

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Lightroom-to-Web Workflow – Made EASY

As a photographer in the modern era, the Web is your best means of having your work seen and thereby growing your audience. Lightroom provides various means of publishing your work to the Web, either using the Web module to roll your own galleries or using Publish Services to upload your work to online services [...]

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Guests Rock!

What we are looking for We’re currently looking for guest bloggers to develop content for the following topics: Photoshop (tips, shortcuts, tutorials, videos, workflows) Lightroom (tips, shortcuts, tutorials, videos, workflows) Digital Asset Management (file management, storage, archiving, exporting, etc.) Lightroom and Photoshop add-on product reviews Hardware reviews (data storage, scanners, cameras, lenses, best practices, etc.) [...]

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Lightroom 4 is here … and so are we.

Right on the heels of the release of Lightroom 4 … we’re proud to announce our X-equals Xel Presets are now also 100% Lightroom 4 compatible! We’ve also released a bulletin regarding more of the finite details around our upgraded versions and installation of the Presets. Thanks for your business! All of us at X-Equals [...]

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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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