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 […]
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 […]
Output resolution is one of the most misunderstood topics in digital photography. What is the correct DPI or PPI to export an image to produce beautiful prints or display on a screen just right? Unfortunately there is no simple answer; resolution, DPI, and PPI all represent different terms and, despite their interrelatedness, they stand as […]
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 […]
I’m constantly on the search for the smoothest and quickest way to process images. That’s it, nothing fancy about it. I like speed, accuracy, and quality. Can they all be wrapped into one workflow that can take care of the majority of my shoots? – I certainly think so! This little gem of a workflow […]
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 […]
Adobe Camera Profiles Have you ever taken a shot that looks awesome on the back of your camera, but looks a little lacking when you import it into Lightroom? Many people have run into this issue, and more than a few have been discouraged from utilizing their cameras RAW settings. Short of creating a preset […]