Here’s a second take on Michael Clark’s earlier article on post-shoot work flow, where my event photography processing leads me to a different approach….

I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all...

Slideshows are a great way to study a shoot/folder. You can then edit the slideshow by either putting your "picks" into a collection or by selecting your picks from a rating or color label. When you're done, there are now...

Last night at exactly midnight NY time, I was able to download the very first version of the Lightroom 2.0 beta. I did this after I'd attended Adobe's on-line meeting and listened to everything Tom Hogarty had to say about...

While speaking with Steve Yadzinski, a colleague of mine lately, who also happens to be a top Photoshop retoucher, it became clear just how important folder naming conventions are in Lightroom. I cannot stress enough how important it is to...

Ever since its arrival, my team and I have become big fans of Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) file format. Unlike proprietary formats (Nikon NEF, Canon CR2/CRW, etc.), we prefer a format that is openly documented, and supported by Adobe. We’ll...

In my previous post: Plugins to Piglets, we explored some unique ways to extend Lightroom’s plugin architecture to automate the online delivery and post-processing of any select number of images. This week we’re going to dig deeper into the flickr...

You probably already know this, but Lightroom has many shortcuts that I haven’t listed here. If you know them all, you’ll save even more time. There’s a really easy way to see what they are for any given module you...

I expanded on this idea from a blog of Matt Koslowski's on creating "presets" for Christmas slide shows. All he had to do was create a couple of images that would make good backgrounds, put those images into any of...

Ideally, most of us preach that you should organize your Lightroom workflow along the lines of the order in which the Lightroom modules appear. So you should start in the by adding the metadata and keywords, delete the images that...

I've discovered myself forgetting to make settings in my files that I have discovered need making for virtually every image I shoot with my current ca'mera. All I have to do to set those settings without changing the settings that...

There have been a few posts recently that cover the benefits of traveling with Lightroom while on assignment, and I recently discussed the benefits of using presets to do some of your editing and cataloging dirty work. This post...

This series of my blogs is all about how I make use of Lightroom's workflow. I have to confess that I've left out one logical step in the overall workflow, camera calibration, because I simply haven't found a strong enough...

In the past couple of years of specializing in the workflow of digital photography and processing, there are two lessons I've learned above all others: (1) Any organized plan for a regular working procedure will save you hours of time...

I'm sure many of you may already know this trick, but I was thrilled when I heard about it. I'll call it the F2 trick. Did you know that you can rename virtually any group of files you've pre-selected in...

As artists, we all have a perfect right to re-interpret the world to match our fondest dreams or wildest ideas...as long as we don't misrepresent the final result as the truth (my opinion, anyway). Lightroom's amazing adjustment tools can make...

In my recent private workshops and tutorials with fellow photographers, I have noticed that organization is a key issue. This not only relates to Lightroom but also to an overall Digital Asset Management system that you should institute right away...

I loved Mikkel Aaland's piece on how to create a QuickTime movie with the Slideshow module. First, I'd been looking for a way to do that because I'd like to narrate and add music to some slideshows that talk about...well,...