As photographers we can easily fall into the deep well of creative pursuits and forget about the practical side to creating images. While the rights to your image are set the moment you press the shutter release, proving that is another matter. And that is where the value of registering your copyright becomes important. Most, Continue Reading »

Adjustment brushes are a really nice feature in Lightroom. Since they made their appearance localized adjustments became easy within Lightroom and I have found less of a reason to roundtrip images to Photoshop for these kinds of edits. A few months ago we took an in-depth look at the adjustment brush, Adjustment Brush Basics – Continue Reading »

Is Lightroom acting a bit sluggish? Well, like any other application, Lightroom can benefit from some simple tweaks and changes to the OS, your system, and its settings. Anita Dennis has posted an excellent article over on the Adobe support site, Optimize Performance | Lightroom. She covers things like: Optimizing you hardware and OS Making Continue Reading »

May has been quite a month! I’ve had quite a few outside projects that all seemed to coalesce in May. Before you know it…it’s almost June! So, my apology for seeming to disappear. Now, to the topic at hand. As photographers we tend to be visual people. When we get stuck creatively we try to Continue Reading »

There are quite a few features in Lightroom to help you automate your workflow. In every module you will find things to make your life easier! Well, workflow-wise anyway. Publish Services offer a streamlined way to keep your catalog and remote sites in synch. Develop presets let you quickly apply settings you have honed over Continue Reading »

Lightroom by its nature helps us be more efficient when working with our images. There are numerous features to speed us along the way when cataloging and processing. Presets, templates, keyword suggestions and so on, cut little bits of time off the tasks at hand. This makes our imaging life a little easier. However, let’s Continue Reading »

The decorations are all put away. The fog of the New Year’s Eve party has lifted. Life has returned to something resembling a normal schedule. 2011 is now with us and poised to be a great year for you. That is, if you choose to make it a great year. Rather than let the year Continue Reading »

Happy holidays everyone! Good to be back posting at Lightroom Secrets. One of my favorite features in Lightroom 3 is the ability to straighten out architectural images with help from the new Lens Corrections panel. While it’s no substitute for a real perspective correction lens, it can go a long way towards improving distorted images. Continue Reading »

Lightroom 3 has been out in the wild now for just about a month now. If you have questions or need a little training assistance here are a few places to look. A.J. Wood at Media Cats is posting some great video tutorials for Lightroom 3 at http://media-cats.com/learning/. Worth a look! The National Association of Continue Reading »