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…
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…
UPDATE for WordPress 2.5 is at the bottom of this post. If you are looking for a way to put a SlideShowPro presentation in a WordPress web site, this tutorial is for you. See an example of this working below: SlideShowPro is a fantastic plugin for Lightroom which provides the…
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…
The Adobe Lightroom Update to version 1.4 is here and available for download. The windows version is about 48 megabytes, which is the same as the full install. Perform these steps to upgrade your version of Lightroom. Download the Windows Update or the Mac Update and save it to your…
When you discuss printing in Adobe Lightroom you are liable to be met with a frown and an immediate discussion of how it doesn’t work the way it should. There are many articles on the web and in publications that deal with printing. These articles give you step by step…
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…
Be sure to see the overview on Image Sharpening and resources on more information. This article discusses the sharpening tools available in Adobe Lightroom and how to use them effectively. The sharpening tools are found on the Detail panel in the Developing module. You can see on the left they…