Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate is now available at Adobe Labs! Go to http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Lightroom_2.3 for more information and to download the files.

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 have been somewhat reluctant to keep demonstrating new features in Lightroom 2 Beta, because some of you like to remind me that the "new" features I am demonstrating were already there in the later versions of Lightroom 1. To...

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".

More often than not, we end up with a washed out sky when we would like something really dramatic. There are of course some really complicated methods for dealing with this in Photoshop CS but in Lightroom we have been given a very simple way of dealing with the problem in just a couple of very easy steps.

The new Photoshop Merge features in Lightroom 2 Beta let you easily work with multiple images directly from Lightroom.

Sometimes the solution is so simple that it takes forever to find it. If you have been reading my recent posts you know that I have been looking for a way to illustrate the second monitor in this blog. I...

One of the wild new features of Lightroom 2 Beta that I overlooked until now is that one can go negative with the Clarity slider. You'll notice that the default position of the Clarity slider is now in the...

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...

In last week's blog I was looking over the fence at Apple's Aperture 2.0 and noted that it might give us a glimpse of things to come with Lightroom - and well, it did. The good news is that Lightroom...

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.

It seems as though history has repeated itself. Not long after Apple released the first version of Aperture (just over two years ago), Adobe released a public beta of Lightroom to tide people over. And now, not long after Apple...

It may be the end of April Fool's day, but this is no joke. Today marks the start of the public beta of Lightroom 2.0 which introduces localized corrections as well as the ability to run on multiple monitors. As...