The other day someone told me that Lightroom 2's 16-bit print capability is the holy grail of printing. Up to now I've been perfectly happy with the standard 8-bit printing. But fearing I was missing out on something special I...

Adobe first released Lightroom in 2006 as a public beta, asking photographers to participate in the design through the associated discussion forum. While that forum is now closed, the opportunity to influence the direction of Lightroom still exists.

It's been a full day here at the granddaddy of all photo shows, Photokina, held every two years in Cologne, Germany. The day started with a nice surprise: A double page spread in the Photokina Show Daily.pdf on the Adobe...

Adobe has been kind enough to feature my Lightroom workflow eBook Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographers Workflow on the Adobe website. It is a great honor to be included with other excellent Lightroom books by such well known authors...

A couple weeks ago, at the Adobe summer school here in Europe I hinted that Lightroom Beta 2 users would be pleasantly surprised at some of the new features coming out in Lightroom 2. Well... LR 2 is now out...

This has been kind of a trying week for me, I am in the middle of moving house, so my time is very limited and I am still trying to get the telephone (and ADSL) installed at the new house....

I've been playing with the Lightroom 2 public beta (free here) and finding some things I really like. Take the new Clarity, for example. Clarity controls are found under the Basic pane in the right panel of the Develop module. Traditionally, Lightroom's Clarity has been used for local contrast enhancement and gives dull images a "punch".

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This is a very short article in words, but it did take some time to put together the accompanying illustrations. Basically I have been holding off on attempting a major retouching job with Lightroom until it had enough retouching tools....

Sorry for being late again with this post, but it is the Songkran (Thai New Year) holiday season in Thailand. A lot of people also call this the water festival, which quite literally means that you can not step out...

Well they said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a non-destructive dodge and burn in Adobe Lightroom. And it isn't your grandfather's dodge and burn either. It is essentially a paint brush tool that has the ability to generate masks over your image which can affect the Exposure, Brightness, Saturation, Clarity and Tint of the selected area.

As most of you probably know by now, a few days ago Adobe released ACR 4.3.1. In the release notes it mentioned that there was an update for the new Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 cameras (among other things). I...

This is now part three in a series of Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3 comparisons, some of you are probably getting tired of these posts, but if you either have or are thinking about buying one of the new...

This has been a week full of Nikon anxiety for me and little less. The big question for the last week has been, will I get one of the first batch of the new Nikon D300? And the answer is,...

Since we now have two brand new versions of the RAW image processor from Nikon and Adobe, I thought that today would be a good day to do a quick comparison test of a Nikon NEF file from a Nikon...

Like Michah over on the Inside Aperture blog, I was surprised to see the InfoTrends RAW workflow tool survey numbers that John Nack of Adobe published last week. If you haven't seen them yet, they basically indicate that about 2/3rds...

For those of us, including myself, who are major Lightroom fanatics, it’s easy to think that it’s everyone’s holy grail. I was recently lucky enough to be included in an email conversation between to very professional photographer friends and ASMP...

Several days ago I spent an afternoon talking about digital workflow with a few fellow professional photographers here in Santa Fe: Nevada Wier and Jamey Stillings. Both are incredible, world-class photographers. During the course of our workflow discussion I started...

You are in for a treat! Lightroom 1.1 is available today and I think you'll be amazed at what Adobe has done in the short time since the original release of 1.0. I still can't believe they are calling it...

My favorite thing about the release of Lightroom 1.1? We're going to press this week with Mikkel's beautiful book, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure. And we're doing so knowing that it will be the most up-to-date Lightroom book out there. Over...