Library & Catalog Management is about maintenance. This workflow involves moving files to permanent storage or on separate hard disk media and maintaining the image and keyword data in the Library. This is part of my Digital Image Workflow. Use the steps below as needed: Moving Image Files Periodic Keyword…
There are so many panels available to open in each of the Lightroom modules that your screen can easily begin to resemble the aftermath of a tornado. Keeping too many panels open can also reduce the efficiency of using Lightroom. This Lightroom tip will show you how to use your…
After careful ratings, the best images should be prepared before the correction stage. The Pre-Correction Image workflow applies necessary crops and any touchup required. This is part of my Digital Image Workflow. Follow the steps below: Cropping an Image for future use Dust and speck removal Large scratches and object…
Tweaking development settings in Lightroom is certainly and art and not a science. Somedays certain settings look great and other days the creative part of the brain takes over and we want to adjust an image differently. How do we set all the many sliders back to their default position?…
Lightroom’s programming language for web galleries has it’s limitations and one we have found is with the autoplay function in the monoslideshow. The Turning Gate has a spectacular template for monoslideshow. Here’s the problem and the workaround. If a monoslide show is playing in the preview window of Lightroom, then…
The Turning Gate has released new versions of several of the Lightroom Templates with some great improvements. The first and most favorite addition of mine is the addition of a footer. Matt beat me to this one as I was working on creating a footer for several of his templates…
Adobe Lightroom uses an automatic placement when removing spots in an image. The placement of the sampled area in the image can be adjusted, but for images with a large amount of work, this is very tedious and inefficient. This idea would make spot removal as easy as it is…
This is part of my Image Conversion Workflow. Printing a contact sheet is important to help identify the link between the negatvive or slide in storage with the digital image usedy by the computer. If disaster ever strikes, or you are looking for a negative or image, using a properly…
Creating a custom contact sheet like this one is easy to do in Adobe Lightroom. This type of contact sheet is especially important when using our film scanning workflows. We use this contact sheet to easily see what negatives are stored in specific binders allowing easy location of the originals….
Adobe has made significant advancements in the Beta version of Lightroom 2. One weak area of the program is the Slideshow module which has received a lot of attention during this beta test. The discussion has centered around ways to create better slideshows outside of Lightroom so that they can…