Sharpening your images is another step from capture to output. Just like exposure, clarity, cropping, and other adjustments, sharpening plays an important role in the creative process. But when should you apply sharpening? How much should you sharpen? What does sharpening do? Let’s take a look at sharpening and how Lightroom handles the process. Even Continue Reading »

Seán McCormack over at Lightroom Blog presents another creative use of the new Publish Services feature in Lightroom 3 Beta. Check out his article on Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos. Already Publish Services is proving to be a flexible and useful addition to Lightroom’s feature set. As this feature matures and third party developers Continue Reading »

Collections were a great idea in version 1 of Lightroom. It was so good, in fact, that Adobe decided to expand collections in Lightroom 2. Now you can access your collections in all of the modules via the Collections panel that appears in the left panel set in every module. But did you know that collections come in different flavors? We’re all familiar now with collections, collection sets, and smart collections. But you can also create slideshow collections, print collections, and web gallery collections. They even have their own distinct icons so you can tell them apart!

Mark Wilson over at rusticolus images has a new article that shows you how to use Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services to publish your images directly from Lightroom to the cloud. It’s a creative use of the Hard Drive connection to link to Dropbox. Take a minute to read Lightroom 3 Beta – Save photos Continue Reading »