Adobe has released an update for Lightroom to version 2.5. This is a maintenance upgrade and fixes the following issues: Lightroom 2.4 on Windows continued to display the import dialog when a memory card was detected regardless of the preference setting “Show import dialog when a memory card is detected.” Lightroom 2.5 includes a correction Continue Reading »

Welcome to a new feature at Lightroom Secrets called Spotlight. My intent is to introduce you to members of the Lightroom community who help us all get the most out of Lightroom. Photographers. Developers. Authors. I’ll put them in the Spotlight so you can learn more about them and what they are up to! Mark Continue Reading »

Lightroom is rich with presets. There are metadata presets. Keywords sets. Web templates. Print layouts. The list goes on and on. However, one of the features of Lightroom that gives it such power and makes your workflow much more efficient is the ability to create, save, and reuse Develop Presets. To start on your Develop Continue Reading »

Sometimes thumbnails are just too small to let you see all the details in an image. If you don’t have a second display and you would like to apply a group of keywords while looking at the Loupe view of an image here’s an easy way. Begin by setting up your Keyword Shortcut. You find Continue Reading »

Well almost! Snow Leopard, the latest iteration of Mac OS X, is set to arrive on August 28th. Whenever a new operating system arrives we have to research our applications before upgrading. (Don’t forget that Windows 7 is coming at the end of October so our Windows colleagues will be facing this very soon as Continue Reading »

Classic Black & White Infrared photography used film that was sensitive to wavelengths in the 700 to 900 nm range. These wavelengths are not normally visible to human eyes. This is part of what creates a fascination with the eerie beauty of infrared photography. Modern digital cameras have filters over the sensor to block infrared Continue Reading »

Here’s a quick and easy way to move an image to the top of a stack. When a stack is collapsed, clicking on the stack icon in the top left of the image will expand the stack. As you hover over each image in the stack an icon will appear in the upper left. For Continue Reading »

I’ll answer the question right up front. Technically, a keyword is always a keyword. Well, I hope you enjoyed this article! Until next time… If only it was that easy. Lightroom has a very powerful keywording system. With power comes both flexibility and complication. There are types of keywords. Some will not appear in Lightroom’s Continue Reading »

In a previous article (I Have Lightroom. Do I Need Photoshop?) I discussed whether or not a Lightroom user needs the extra power that Photoshop affords. A few readers asked if Photoshop Elements was enough or is Photoshop the way to go. So, let’s take a look at what the differences are and whether you Continue Reading »