IIn this article, you’ll learn how to edit a Metadata Preset, and how to use it when importing your photos into Lightroom. If you want to get paid (or at least get recognition) for your photos, it’s a really great idea to include your name and contact details in your photos. You might f

#1 – Visualize Spots Has this happened to you? You published online or printed a picture just to find out that you missed some dust or spots (be it from the camera sensor or on the photographed subject)? Lightroom has a great tool which will help you visualize and find those spots. Make sure

It’s a new year and Imagely has released a great new Lightroom gallery plugin to make our lives easier. If you run your own photography website on WordPress, like countless other photographers, then you have probably come across Imagely and NextGEN Gallery. Imagely provides WordPress themes a

Lightroom CC subscribers can access Lightroom in three places; on a computer using the desktop app, on a tablet or phone using Lightroom Mobile, or through an internet browser, using Lightroom Web (go to the url https://lightroom.adobe.com/ to check it out for yourself). Lightroom web is probably t

Back in 2013, which is about two thousand years as far as digital photography is concerned, the folks at Adobe introduced a brand new tool into the kit of Lightroom 5. That tool is the Radial Filter and it has become not only one of my favorite tools in Lightroom but is one of the most versatile and

There are some photographers who use Photoshop or plugins such as Portrait Pro to do portrait retouching. There is nothing wrong with this and these programs can do an excellent job, especially if you retouch portraits at a high level. But you may be surprised at just what an excellent job Lightroom

The tones and organic nature of analog film are things many of us have began to long for in our digital age. Don’t worry, though, this will not be an article about the merits or disadvantages of digital photography or whether film is better or worse than digital. The purpose of this tutorial i

You’ve probably seen images floating around because it’s popular these days, you know, the ones with the retro faded look. It’s pretty popular with the instagram and wedding photography crowd. It’s not my fancy but I am all about empowering photographers to shoot what they ha

It’s day 2 of our Summer Sale and today we have a special Adobe Lightroom Presets Travel pack* for you with a 72% Saving. This “system” normally sells for $176, but it’s being offered to dPS readers for the special price of $49 USD – a massive 72% saving. One of the be

Although even lighting, and perfect exposure are your biggest allies when it comes to making people look their best in headshots, there are many small adjustments you can make in the editing process, that will make your shots (and your clients) look that much more professional. To begin, a lot of t

Over the years, Lightroom has become the most important tool for my photography. I use it for organizing and editing my photos, as well as publishing them to various channels. But, this hasn’t always been the case. When Adobe introduced Lightroom years ago, 100% of my editing was done in Phot

This is the promised follow-up to my article on Creating Compelling Wide-Angle Portraits Using One Off-Camera Flash. While part one discussed equipment, composition, lighting and posing, this article focuses exclusively on post-processing. Let me start by stating the obvious. Everyone has their own

In their release of Lightroom 6.6 (or CC 2015.6 if you are using the Creative Cloud subscription package), Adobe added a feature, allowing us photographers to straighten our images even easier than before. The image above is a typical example of a photo that can use some straightening. A tall build

Everybody loves to get it right in camera. But if you don’t, you have plenty of tools to help you make it right. Lightroom is one of the best available, and the easiest to use. In this article I’ll show you how you can use Lightroom’s Transform and Crop Tools to improve your compos

Today we launched a brand new dPS course to help you get total control over Adobe Lightroom. For a short time you can grab it with a 50% off early bird discount. Are you frustrated with the time you’re spending perfecting your photos in Lightroom? Perhaps you’re a beginner and just don

If there is one thing I wish I would have spent more time learning early on in my time with Lightroom, it’s the adjustment brush. Lightroom is an incredible editing tool, arguably the easiest one to use, and the quickest to learn. The one thing that took me a while to wrap my head around

One of the most confusing features of Adobe Lightroom for many users, is how to get your final results out of the software, to show them to friends or to send to customers. Different from other programs, there is only one way to “save” thing out of Lightroom – that is to an Export

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Adobe Lightroom, now’s your chance to do it with our brand new Lightroom Mastery Course – and if you act fast you can save 50%! Over the last few years here at dPS we’ve noticed that the most common tool that our readers use to proce

The process of converting a color landscape photo into a black and white image using Lightroom goes beyond changing the treatment to black and white. That’s just the start. From there you have to tweak and refine, using all tools that Lightroom gives you, to craft an image that matches th

Lightroom can be an intimidating program. Even longtime users sometimes find themselves confused at all the options or unsure of exactly what to do to achieve a specific type of look for their pictures. Fortunately much of this can be mitigated by learning new things slowly and carefully, and t