Inside Lightroom

I’m not advocating violence here. In tradespeak, creating a knockout means removing the subject of a photo from its background…hopefully with all the transitional edges, such as flying hair, semi transparent areas, and surface reflections intact. The idea is to...

George Jardine has said farewell to Adobe and his position as an evangelist for Lightroom. Over the last few years, he’s been a welcome voice on his series of Lightroom podcasts, a library of content from which I’ve learned quite...

One of the confusing topics I get a lot of questions about is metadata - what is really needed and where do I put what? The answer to that question is it depends. It depends on if you are a...

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...

Canon's new Rebel XSi ad is making its way around the Internet and probably out onto the TV airwaves as well. It's a really nicely crafted ad and one that will hopefully inspire budding photographers everywhere to pick up a...

Lightroom’s Print Module, believe it or not, is a great vehicle for putting together a photo collection for a quick email. All you do is make rows and columns and space them so that when you capture the screen, they’re...

Today, Adobe posted a release candidate of the Camera Raw 4.5 plug-in via the Adobe Labs website. By release candidate, Adobe means that the software is well tested, but they would like to see additional community testing before it is...

One of the great features of Lightroom is that it can work with tiff and jpeg files as well as raw files. Because of this feature, a few years ago I thought I'd try working up film scans I made...

Wedding photographers shoot a lot of photos … not just a few hundred - I’m talking thousands of photos per shoot. This has always presented some unique challenges for our studio as we process images and create galleries for clients...

I really started realizing how important it was to do keywording, titles, and captions as soon as possible, and with a plan in mind, when I started writing classes on using Lightroom’s Slideshow and Web modules. These are both incredibly...