I wrote a workflow article on backing up Lightroom templates and I felt it was so important, I wanted to create a tip here as well. Do not forget to make this most important backup. See the full article here: Backing Up Lightroom.
Because Adobe Lightroom works so well on laptops for field or trip work, keeping a tight reign on screen space is important. Even with larger laptop screens, the develop tools and other areas in Lightroom can take up a lot of space needed for image work. Here is a tip…
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta included a new feature called Smart Collections. These collections are created automatically after setting some rules. The rules are very customizable and can filter based on certain data from your images. There is a trick to filtering for some words though that are contained within other…
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….
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…
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 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…
Imports take a significant amount of time for large raw files or tiff files in any volume. This is especially true through a usb cable and a camera. There are a few steps you can take to increase the speed of the import if you are sitting and waiting to…
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…