For an overview of how we’re leveraging dual monitors in our Lightroom workflow, head on over to the Digital Photography School. We’ve uncovered the parts that matter, along with some best practices for using the Loupe View to put your workflow on steroids and improve your productivity by 25% or more!
Alright, so everyone has read the Sharpening In Lightroom Part I of our series and is now an expert with sharpening in the Develop Module, right? I hope so, because we are about to explore another sharpening feature offered in Lightroom. Export Sharpening works in tandem with Develop Module Sharpening to prepare an image for […]
Do you use sharpening in Lightroom? It’s alright if you said no. It’s one of those photography tips that isn’t talked about a lot. As I browsed the internet I have discovered than not many people actually utilize Lightroom to sharpen their images, even if the image was processed in Lightroom. There seems to be […]
Options are good, especially when said options are free. Lightroom users have the option to use a multitude of presets to enhance their images – and most Lightroom users also have the option to use Photoshop and its native RAW processor, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). However, not many Lightroom users are aware that they can […]
Sticking to my promise to expose more complete details on my workflow for select projects, we’re going to look at a detailed workflow leveraging Lightroom’s localized correction toolset. This post roots itself in my previous tutorial on faking depth of field in your images. The one caveat to that technique is the round trip journey […]
In this post, we’ll be creating what we like to call a contextual preset – a preset that is used in a particular context to enhance your image based on lighting, weather, time of day, season, etc. This particular type of preset is no different technically than any other preset in Lightroom, with the exception […]
Wedding photographers shoot a lot of photos … not just a few hundred – I’m talking thousands of photos per shoot. This has always presented some unique challenges for our studio as we process images or create a gallery for clients to proof our work. One technique that we have found to work exceedingly well […]
I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it. I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but I never really thought of Quick Develop as a valuable part of my workflow … until […]
While preparing a series of images for print on a high resolution printer, I found myself obsessing about removing any residual sensor noise or image imperfections from my collection. Normally, I’m pushing images to 72ppi for proofing on the web, which will often downsample out any irritable noise, dust, or imperfections. Not this time – […]
While processing another massive batch of images, I boasted with pride to my team how Auto Sync is streamlining my workflow. All the while, I flicked my Alt, Ctrl, and Command keys like Beethoven as I waxed prophetic on my mastery of all things quick and tricky. Then I noticed her. She had been my […]