One of the best features about Lightroom, perhaps even the best feature is how Lightroom allows us to edit our images quickly and painlessly. I have touched on my editing process with Lightroom in several posts but never actually explained...

Working an assignment as a team has many perks, not the least being that you have two angles to work shots with and twice as many chances to capture fleeting moments. Another perk is that you have two sets of...

Last week a few readers said it would be nice to see a few examples of Chromatic Aberration and how it was removed. I didn't include any with the last post because chromatic aberration is different in every image. But...

One of the greatest ironies of the power of Lightroom is you’re more or less forced to keep your original image unsullied by your adjustments. I’m always preaching the blessing of that…even to those who are working strictly in Photoshop....

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...

Yet another great feature of Lightroom is that you can use a more advanced external image editor to work on your images if Lightroom can't do what you need it to do. Now don't get me wrong, Lightroom is incredibly...

This week I have been shooting rock climbing in Devils Tower National Monument in the hinterlands of Wyoming. It has been a long week of heavy packs and hard work. But I also had the chance to photograph an incredible...

Did you ever sit down to diligently apply keywords to your images in Lightroom's Library module, only to be distracted by a particular shot that you just know could really be made fabulous with just a few tweaks in the...

Being a frequent user of Lightroom on the road, I have to use my laptop screen much more often than I'd like for color critical work. Of course, one of the secrets to effectively using Lightroom—or any other photo editing...

Lightoom remembers just about everything you do while image editing, but if you're tinkering a lot, the History pane can get quite tedious. In addition to History, I've started using the Snapshots function. When ever I get to a...

The Cross-Roads Restaurant & Motel, Pembroke, Maine I was going to write about some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1 again, but then I remembered one of the first rules of Lightroom, to enjoy the program and have...

I have as usual been surfing the digital photography forums for a suitable topic for this week's blog posting and the winner by a clear mile is the new Clarity adjustment in Lightroom 1.1. As an easy image enhancement addition...

I was working on an article for my Lightroom eBook this week on dust spot removal and could not find any images in my Lightroom Library that had any dust spots. Strange as it may seem in the last couple...

In my most recent Newsletter - sent out just a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about digital and color. Mostly the article spoke about how my sense of color has changed in the last few years, since...

Many of us that have now been using Adobe Lightroom for over a year, have forgotten that most photographers in the world have not even tried it yet, or even know what all the fuss is about. So I searched...

In an earlier blog I wrote about Lightroom's contextual menus, which are like hidden Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the user interface, revealed with a right/click of the mouse. But, hey, there are more surprises! Try this and you'll see what...

Lightroom has plenty of hidden contextual menus, and like Easter eggs, they are fun to find. To reveal one of these menus simply place your cursor over a thumbnail, panel pane, or work area and right-click. On a Mac hold...

A recent trend in photography is the de-saturated image. You see them everywhere now. With the acceptance of digital photography there seems to be a backlash against the saturated film colors of Velvia - instead of super saturated colors you...

Editing my images, especially sports images, has always been a time consuming task with my prior workflows. When I photograph rock climbers, mountain bikers or kayakers for example I am always shooting at high framing rates - at 5 frames...

I had seen these Lightroom Develop Presets by Jack Davis earlier last month but only got around to installing them today and I have to say, wow why did I wait so long? It isn't that these presets can do...