In June 2022, Adobe Lightroom Classic had a pretty big update. In this tutorial I’ll show you my four favorite new features. The biggest and most important changes are with Presets and Masks, and I think you’re going to love these new features. Watch my video tutorial below or continue reading to […]
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The key with portrait editing in Lightroom is to keep it subtle for natural looking portraits. What I love about editing in Lightroom Classic is that everything is non-destructive. This makes it easy to change your adjustments simply by moving the sliders if you don't like your initial result. In my new […]
When you're working with the Adjustment Brush in Adobe Lightroom Classic, you'll find that the how you've set the feather, flow, and density controls for the brush will make a huge difference in your editing. These settings can be confusing, though. Just what is flow vs density? It kind of sounds […]
A few months ago Adobe made a huge Lightroom Classic update. It was the biggest update in years, and the new AI-assisted masking tools they added in the Develop panel are wonderful. The Develop panel interface does look a little different now, because the local adjustment tools Adjustment Brush, Radial Filter […]
The Vibrance and Saturation sliders are probably two of the most often used color adjustments in Lightroom. How you use them and what the difference is, is important to understand so you know how making changes will affect the colors in your photo. Both Vibrance and Saturation enhance colors and their intensity […]
Lightroom Classic 8.4 (August 2019 update) has some welcome new features. Now you can batch-process HDR and Panorama stacks, there are new GPU Acceleration and performance improvements, and you can export PNG files. Adobe has also fixed some bugs and added new camera/lens support. GPU/Performance Improvements GPU Acceleration for Image Editing […]
If you’re taking any travel photos of monuments or cityscapes this summer, or just enjoy taking architectural photos, chances are you’ll run into a few images that need some perspective correction, especially if you’re using a very wide angle lens or a point and shoot. I know I’ll likely run into […]
Sometimes you just want to get it done. Most of us want to spend more time taking photos than sitting at our computer editing them. Or maybe you enjoy the editing process but sometimes…maybe often…you just don’t have tons of time to spend. That’s where Batch Processing comes in handy. Not […]
One thing that can be challenging to photographers is how to organize images in Lightroom, what file structure to use and how to keep your catalog in good shape. It’s easy to simply download photos and put them in a randomly named folder, but then you get to a point where […]
I’m happy to report that this morning Adobe released a new Lightroom update for version 6 and CC that restores the “old” Import Dialog. It is called Lightroom 6.3 if you have the standalone version or CC 2015.3 if you have Creative Cloud. Thankfully, Adobe has brought back the old Import […]
Some people love Lightroom develop presets and use them all the time while others wouldn’t even consider applying one to their image. I’m somewhere in the middle. I find they can be a huge time-saver for certain tasks, but I also found that I had ended up with dozens of presets […]
I’m happy to report that Adobe has listened to all the Lightroom users who have been setting the forums on fire with complaints about changes to the Import Dialog plus crashes and bugs after the updates earlier this month. These were updates called Lightroom CC 2015.2/Lightroom 6.2 and then CC 2015.2.1/6.2.1 […]
Adobe has released another Lightroom update, called CC 2015.2.1 and 6.2.1, to deal with the crashes and slow performance problems that many users were experiencing. The new update is supposed to fix the Mac crashing bug and performance problems on both Mac and Windows that were apparently caused by the new […]
Adobe has released new updates to Lightroom desktop, mobile and web features. The biggest updates were to Lightroom 6 and CC for Desktop, which are what I will cover in this post. Normally I encourage people to update right away to take advantage of the new features, but this time it’s […]
Lightroom is fun and powerful software and we photographers love to play around with it and try different things. It’s a great tool for adjusting contrast, exposure and white balance and a lot more. You can take an average-looking image out of the camera and turn it into a stunner with […]