Typing the copyright symbol, or ©, in Lightroom is simple! Hold down the ‘Alt’ key on the keyboard and type 0, 1, 6 and 9 on the numberpad. Voila! The copyright symbol appears. If it doesn’t work, be sure you are keeping the ‘Alt’ key pressed the entire time and…
Lightroom has redefined the way photographers can work with their images in one software package. This is primarily by separating the physical image file from how it is indexed or cataloged in the software. This has long been done by asset management software, but until now not done in the…
When you open Adobe Lightroom, you should see the dialog below before the main window opens. The purpose of this well placed dialog is to ask if you want to backup your catalog. Do not skip this dialog box! Your catalog is the lifeblood of Lightroom. All of your thumbnails…
Cades Cove is located in the northwest corner of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Cades Cove is also my favorite spot to watch and photograph deer. I have spent many an evening there watching herds of deer go by. By herds I mean groups of deer numbering in the…
In case you don’t already know, the images on this blog are stored at higher resolutions. You can click on any picture and see it larger. For example, see the image below. It is of a dialog box and may be difficult to read on your screen. However, if you…
Backing up RAW files using the export and burn to cd functions in Lightroom should have a slight modification from backing up TIFFs or JPEGs. The RAW format from digital cameras is different between many of the manufacturers. Adobe created an open source standard called a Digital Negative format or…
When exporting images in Microsoft Windows, which can take a considerable amount of time depending on size and volume, the screen saver will probably kick in. If you are burning these images to CD or DVD, then a dialog box comes up for each disk asking about burn information and…
This is part of my Image Conversion Workflow. Backup is a dreaded word because it doesn’t seem to do anything except take time. However, backup is a most important word because without, your image is like carrying tissue paper beneath an umbrella in the rain – it will most likely…
On monday a large storm front moved through the Charlott, NC region. The wind was blowing hard and the clounds kept coming in waves. They would string out in a long line and you could see where the change in temperature was in the atmosphere. The hot and cold spots…
Exporting greyscale images from Adobe Lightroom can at first seem to make the file larger. For example, I use TIFF images that come from scanning my black and white negatives. If I do a simple export from Lightroom and burn them to CD or DVD, my imaages are larger. How…