It’s a rather tiny icon, and you probably don’t give it much thought … I know I didn’t. Yet it’s so simple and does its job so well it’s time to give this little guy a shot. Luckily for you, we’ve taken the mystery out of this hidden gem with some examples of how you […]
As Summer winds down to a close here in Chicago, we’ve taken some time to reflect on the past few seasons and some of our favorite posts. These little gems are a small taste of our upcoming Best Practices in Workflow book coming out in December*. We guarantee one of the below posts will shave […]
Snapshots in Lightroom are a little discussed feature, underappreciated and often undervalued in many a workflow. Most often, Snapshots are overlooked in favor of Virtual Copies, but in certain situations Snapshots can be useful. A Snapshot in Lightroom is like a picture of an images development settings. You can process an image, create a Snapshot […]
Photography can be an expensive endeavor, regardless of it you are a professional or an enthusiast. One thousand dollars can buy you Lightroom and Photoshop, with about enough money left over to buy a lunch or two. Then if you decide to add on some great plug-ins to these pieces of software, you can blow […]
Back in October 2008, I wrote an article for Layers Magazine about some steps you can take to protect your copyright when posting photos online (big thanks to the editors at Layers for posting the full article!). I think it would be worth your time to take a few minutes to give that a read […]
Techniques and Tools In part 1 of this series, we gave an overview of the basics of creating monochrome images in Lightroom. Today we are going to delve a bit deeper into a few techniques you can use to create magnificent monochromes and more. So without further adieu, let us jump right in. Toning and […]
It’s not hard to get a lot of photos in Lightroom … and I do mean a LOT of photos. Ten-thousand, twenty-thousand, one hundred-thousand. I’ve seen some pretty big catalogs. What do you do when you need to find one of those images? This is where keywording in Lightroom saves the day. … when photographers […]
Black and White photography is one of the simplest yet one of the most powerful visual arts there is. The stark contrast of the blacks and whites uncover a certain truth that lurks in an image, a truth that color often times obscures. For the first decades of photography, color was artificially introduced into an […]
So now that everyone knows how to make a calibrated camera profile, it’s time to take it another step. You can see the added benefit of accuracy that camera profiles bring to Lightroom, but photography is supposed to be a creative art, so let’s manipulate the system. Camera profiles were originally created to mimic the […]
In part 1 of this series, we dug into the camera profiles included in Lightroom. Today we are going to dig a bit deeper and learn how to produce an accurate, custom profile for your own camera. This is a must if you want accurate colors and use a camera not made by Canon or […]