In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection. There’s another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream Continue Reading »

Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. Jeffrey Friedl provided several excellent plugins for the Export dialog making it easy to export to these online services. He is hard at work turning those into Publish Services. By the Continue Reading »

Any well developed and flexible image processing application will allow users to approach a workflow and adapt it to what works best for them. Lightroom is no exception. Many users are well familiar with renaming image files during import and applying a sequence number to each file. The Import dialog allows us to choose to 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 »

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 »

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is still in its early stages. Photoshop, among others applications, gives us the tools to deal with all the information in an HDR image. With those tools and a little planning we can create some stunning images that better capture what we saw when we captured the scene. Or, with Continue Reading »

Many digital cameras have a feature known as Auto-Bracketing. This allows you to set the camera to take multiple exposures with a single press of the shutter release. By choosing a certain over and under exposure range you can increase your chances of nailing that perfect shot. If you are shooting for HDR, setting your Continue Reading »

The introduction of localized adjustments via the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2 is just beginning to reveal many creative uses. One possibility that may not be readily apparent is the ability to colorize or hand paint old black and white photos. We’ve all seen many Photoshop tutorials on how to apply this classic and nostalgic technique. But now, it’s possible to do directly in Lightroom.

Earlier versions of Apple’s iPhoto stored its library information in a regular folder structure. Around version 7 Apple changed that approach and iPhoto began hiding its folder structure inside a package file. While this makes the applications presence on the drive neater and theoretically more portable, it does hide the images in iPhoto’s library from Lightroom.

If you want to migrate your iPhoto library to Lightroom I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that it is relatively easy to import the files. The bad news? Your edits will not migrate easily. Unlike Lightroom, files that you edit in iPhoto are saved as a separate file. You can import these edited files but you will have both an original and the edit without any connection between them. Essentially, you wind up with two separate images. If you’re still game here is how you do it.