Pin It This is the written article for our Weekly Lightroom Edit – Episode 1 that was released on November 18, 2011 on SLR Lounge. To view this tutorial in video form, click here. The nice thing about doing written tutorials is that I get to include a bit more explanation as to why we are goi

Are you looking for a quick and easy way to create time-lapse videos and already own Lightroom 3.0? Thanks to the hard work of Sean McCormack, your search is over. Being budget minded and already owning Lightroom, I came across Sean’s plugin and was pleasantly surprised at the price tag (free

This is the written article for our Weekly Lightroom Edit – Episode 2 that was released on November 25, 2011 on SLR Lounge. To view this tutorial in video form, click here. Hey guys, welcome to Episode 2 of our Weekly Lightroom Edit. Last week, we had a few questions regarding black and whit

Venice. It is one of the most enchanting places in the world. There is an old-world charm to this city that endears you to it like no other destination you’ve traveled to. I spent only 1.5 days in Venice, but took hundreds of photos there. When I came back and started my sorting and editing,

One hidden feature of the Lightroom print module is the ability to add a frame to an image. In this post I’ll show you how to add a frame to an image before exporting it as a JPEG image ready for uploading to the web or printing. In Lightroom 3 you can create an image and export it as a JPG

At Halloween last year I was asked to photograph some kids I’ve shot from time to time since they were born. Basically their mum likes to have some up to date photos of the kids and Halloween seemed like as good a time as any to get some shots. When I’m shooting like this, my aim is to

Historically a contact sheet was a page of images each printed at the same size as the film negative – they were used as a reference for the images on the film roll. They were called contact sheets because the film was placed in close contact with the paper when printing them. These days the

If you’re like me, you have some presets that you’ve created in Lightroom that you would like to use in Adobe Camera Raw. Unfortunately the format of the preset files in each program is different so you can’t just install a Lightroom preset in ACR. However you can make an ACR pres

While the official version of Lightroom 4 is not out yet, I feel comfortable pointing out one change that is sure to make it in the final product; the ability to change white balance while using the Gradient Filter or Adjustment Brush.  I have been waiting for this feature for a while to help b

Introduction This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom. As we all know, dust spots on our images can be quite a annoying little pests to deal with. Just when you think you have them all corre

Introduction This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom. If you own your own studio, or are heading in that direction, it is nice to have your Lightroom customized to your own studio. Thi

A Guest Post by Nick Rains Once you have added more and more images to your Lightroom catalogue it becomes less easy to find a particular image from the many thousands you have imported. Fortunately, being a digital asset manager Lightroom includes some powerful tools for searching. You could start

Many of the features in the Lightroom 3 Develop module have targeted adjustment tools available to help you make the adjustment. Here’s where to find and how to use these on image adjustment tools. Tone curve When you select the Tone Curve panel you can adjust an area of the image by clickin

A Guest post by Christopher HC Brown First off I should come right out and say that I think Lightroom is an amazing tool for photographers. Before I got my first copy of this application I was using Photoshop to do all of my image editing. Don’t get me wrong, I know Photoshop is also a great a

Lightroom has tools for correcting color not just across the entire image but also for correcting individual colors. This image was captured in New York’s Time Square where the light is unpredictable at best especially at night because of the bright advertisements and neon signs. Because the

With the introduction of version 1.1, Lightroom has had a slider titled “Clarity”. In the beginning the slider went from zero to one hundred. Now, in version 3.3, the slider has a range from -100 to +100. I often use the slider for my photo work and am happy with the results.  Helen

One feature that I (along with a lot of other users) would like to see built into Lightroom is a calendar template. Unfortunately, there is not one available but thanks to Jerry Courvoisier of www.lightroomworkshops.com, for 2011 at least, you can download and create CD jewel case calendars for 201

Sometimes the odds are against you. White balance with one light source, while shooting in RAW, is pretty easy to deal with in post production in the case that your camera didn’t get it right the first time. Lightroom, and many other programs, offer some preset situations and settings (dayligh

Most of us know we can convert and image to black and white in Lightroom by simply pressing the letter V. However, for the exact same image, your version of Lightroom might give a very different result to my version of Lightroom. The explanation is that there are two settings available for black an

In Lightroom 3 the Import dialog was updated and there are heaps of cool tools here to speed up and make the import process more efficient. Here are five things that you should know about the import dialog. 1. Back up as you import In the Import dialog’s File Handling panel you can select to