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…
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…
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…
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…
Image sharpening is one of the most important image enhancements in the digial world. This is especially true of scanned negatives or slides. However, the importance of sharpening is due to fuzzy images, but rather due to noise. Noise Causes a Need for Sharpening Noise is found in all digital…
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…
After scanning our images, importing the images into lightroom is the next step in our Image Conversion Workflow. Fortunately, Lightroom has a powerful and easy to use interface to accomplish our import. By pressing the Import button at the bottom of the Library view or by using the File, Import…
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…
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…