I specialize in black and white photography and the corresponding workflow in Adobe Lightroom and other products. However, color digital photography may eventually takeover film, so I have created a set of Lightroom Development Presets that emulate existing popular black and white filters. You can download the presets in this…
I keep running across posts where someone wants to crop an image in Adobe Lightroom to a certain pixel size but doesn’t know how to do it or believes it cannot be done within Lightroom. It can be done and you can crop an image to a certain pixel size….
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?…
I was working on some portraits I took of my boys in Lightroom and after I edited them using NeatImage to remove some grain noise, I found extra files. Here’s what happened. I had been using my standard workflow, scanning some freshly developed negatives, importing them into Lightroom and burning…
Adobe didn’t make many large enhancements to their just released Update to version 1.4 outside of continuing to enhance the compatibility of RAW cameras and updates in Adobe RAW (now version 4.4). However, they did make one very welcomed change to those of us that like black and white photography…
Tonal adjustments are one of the most important tasks in photography. Before digital work it was slow and painful at best; photographers used various grades of paper and filters developing the picture to see the results one at a time. We are getting used to instant gratification with tools like…
Lightroom has a tremendous tool to easily see which areas of an image are clipped. Thankfully they have one each for hightlight clipping and shadow clipping. The tool adds bright colors in an area of the image to highlight the type of clipping. See the example below for an image…
In Lightroom, pressing the compare button or using the View, Before / After menu item, will compare the currently modified image with the import image. However, sometimes you would rather compare two different types of adjusted images. The image above shows the standard before and after view. Notice how we…
This is the first of a shortcuts series that will describe the most common keyboard shortcuts I use for various tasks. This is certainly not all inclusive, but is my personal preference. Don’t forget to view the shortcuts with the fantastic help system in Lightroom. While these shortcuts are noted…