When bought my first digital SLR in April 2006, moving from scanned film, I gave up Photoshop completely. Quit cold turkey. At that time Lightroom was at public beta #2, and it certainly wasn't capable of doing everything Photoshop could (and still isn't). But even then there was considerable overlap in their capabilities, and rather than allowing myself to fall back on what I knew, I forced myself to learn the new ways of thinking.

A few years ago I made a decision in Photoshop that is affecting me greatly today. I chose to save my Photoshop (PSD) files with Maximize Compatibility (MC) turned off. MC saves a flattened version of your file along with...

I think it is obvious that we will see both Lightroom and Photoshop CS flourishing in the photography world for some years to come.

Most of the features that I wanted to see in Lightroom 2 are in, including multiple monitor support, metadata based localized corrections, and tons of improvements in the Library. There is one significant missing piece to me, however,and that's soft...

More than any other recent time I have really had trouble writing this blog posting. Not because I did not know what I was going to write about but mainly because the topic is currently in constant flux and the...

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

Lightroom has made it easier than ever to pull detail from drab images. I had a series of images shot with an older digital camera that, until now, weren't worth the work required to enhance them. Lightroom changes all that.

As a workflow consultant, I get a backstage pass to analyze and dissect what our clients are doing to streamline and perfect their workflows. What amazes me time and time again is how small inefficiencies add up to make processing...

In my previous post I discussed my love affair with Lightroom presets as a way to extend my workflow and in turn automate post-processing. This week we’re going to visit the bleeding egde of Lightroom’s plugin architecture to look at...

As the photographer for O'Reilly conferences the last three years, I've had lots of opportunities to make photographs of Tim O'Reilly. Most of these photographs are standard stage fare with front lighting and general stage props. They get the job...

It’s frustrating getting simple questions I can’t answer. The other night, at the Apple store in San Francisco, I talked about the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, and then demonstrated Lightroom. When I was finished with my song and dance a...

For the last year I've been pretty much Lightroom-centric but now I'm updating my Photoshop RAW book to CS3 and I'm straying back into the world of Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. It's giving me a chance to write about...

In my last blog, I talked about the workflow for using the Develop module. For most of us, that's all you need to know for processing about eighty-percent of your images. Furthermore, the speed and beautiful and intuitive interface of...

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...

Last week I was taken to task by a reader because of a statement I made about switching to Photoshop CS3 Extended because of it's advanced High Dynamic Range capability. Basically the question was, why should I spend another US...

It is easy to see how both Photoshop old timers and new Photoshop users may be confused as to which of the new Photoshop products to buy, or to upgrade to at this time. 1. Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 - The...