The Develop Presets in Lightroom can be of great value when processing an image by helping you quickly achieve the particular 'look' you have in mind. But your collection of Presets can quickly grow, so you may want to bring some order to the evolving chaos

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...

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...

On a recent project, I was preparing a series of images for print on a high resolution press (Fuji Frontier 590 to be exact) and I found myself obsessing about removing any residual sensor noise or image imperfections from my...

In the Lightroom 2.0 Develop module, there are some very useful shortcut keys you can used for the Treatment panels sliders. You can rotate through the use of the different sliders by pressing . When you do, the slider you’ve...

Another tidbit I found in Julieanne Kost’s recent Lightroom seminar here in Santa Fe is a method to control the multiple dialog panels in any module of Lightroom. Especially if you are working on a laptop it can sometimes...

Continuing on with my exploration of time-saving keyboard tricks, I have become a huge fan of using the {Alt} key (mac or PC) to quickly access two functions I use daily: Tone Control and Export as Catalog. During my...

Auto Sync has changed my life. I have easily squeezed an hour out of my workflow by making Auto Sync a primary tool in my arsenal. I won’t go so far as to say Auto Sync is a ‘hidden’ control,...

Masking in Lightroom 2.0 Beta is reducing my trips to Photoshop, even for images where a hand-colored look is desired.

I don't recall any other bloggers posting here about the incredible usefulness of the option key in conjunction with several sliders in the Develop Module of Lightroom. This is a well known "trick" of the trade and a huge reason...

In continuing with my theme of sharing in last weeks post, I want to delve into the topic of virtual copies and how my team and I have been leveraging them in our collaborative workflow. We’ll look at how we...

The histogram panel in Lightroom is a jewel that you should keep your eye on at all times while developing your photo (hence why Adobe made it possible to “dock” it in place while the other modules in the...

Got one of those "old fashioned" digital cameras that doesn't have dust removal? It's time you thought about Lightroom's instant dust-removal. That's not so much a named feature as something you can easily do by using a combination of the...

It's easy to learn the basic image adjustment controls in Lightroom, and experimenting is a great way to see how these controls work.

We all know how easy Lightroom makes it to sort through the “rejects”, “maybes”, and “keepers” in your catalog. But be sure to pay extra attention when filing through your shots before heaving them into the trash, as you...