This workflow is by far the shortest and easiest path to fixing the Leaning Tower of Pisa effect that often happens when shooting architectural photos without fancy equipment like a View Camera or a Tilt Shift Lens. Let’s start out by by looking at our final image: Check out those nice sweet STRAIGHT lines! But […]
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 […]
Once upon a time if you wanted to take a photo, if had to be shot on film. You would buy a roll, load you camera and take you pictures. Afterwards you would take the roll to the photo lab to get developed and you would finally see your photos. The rise of digital photography […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you’ve never heard of a Holga, trust me when I tell you it can quickly become an obsession! That’s why we developed this Lightroom preset download for you! Being a digital photographer at heart, I still love to shoot a roll of 120 in my Holga. It’s not cheap shooting, developing, and printing images […]
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 […]