Lightroom Preset – Summer Rain

Contextual Presets Rock! 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, […]

FTP for you and me

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is an amazingly simple and powerful technology that can be leveraged within Lightroom. I personally use this feature for every client project as a means to deliver a gallery of work for proofing and selection. The ability to customize the look-and-feel of the gallery adds a nice touch as well. We’ll […]

The Adobe DNG Format: Why Photographers Should Switch

Adobe DNG rules! At least that’s what we think. We are big fans of Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) camera raw archival file format. Unlike proprietary formats (Nikon NEF, Canon CR2/CRW, etc.), we prefer a format that is openly documented, and supported by Adobe. While I have engaged in many a debate on the issue of […]