Inside Lightroom

In this age of digital media it is even more critical that we keep track of our digital assets. Lightroom has many features to help you organize your images. The best website I can recommend to you to delve deeply into industry standard organization practice is dpBestFlow.org from the American Society of Media Photographers and funded by the Library of Congress. The site is full of suggestions and videos. Get ready to spend some time there! There are many websites and books devoted to this topic. You should do a little research before embarking on this adventure.

Can you believe it? 2009 is over! Where does the time go? Are you satisfied with your photography this year? Do you have photographic plans for 2010? Lightroom is an excellent program but it still needs you to feed it images. If you find yourself in a creative slump or the shooting doldrums don't despair! Leave all that in 2009 and look to the new year with fresh eyes! Here are ten suggestions to help you rekindle that passion for photography!

There is an interesting, but sometimes confusing, issue when you create a virtual copy while you are working in the Develop module. Here's the scenario: You are working on an image and before you travel down an alternate creative path you decide to make a virtual copy before proceeding. So you use the menu command or the keyboard shortcut and... poof ...a different image is sitting there instead of your virtual copy! You go back to the Library module or look in the filmstrip and notice your virtual copy did get created. You've done this before and it worked. So what's going on?

Recently, I had some trouble synchronizing images shot from with three different digital cameras when I imported them into Lightroom. As it turned out one of my cameras was not set to the correct time or time zone and this...

It’s easy to develop a routine of doing something the same way over and over again without considering how effective it is. Using Lightroom is definitely no exception. How you choose to handle initial previews has a direct impact on...

Pop quiz: Which of these describes an unprocessed raw image?
1. The initial preview created by the camera, seen briefly in Lightroom
2. The initial preview generated by Lightroom
3. The state after applying the General - Zeroed Develop Preset
4. None of the above

I decided to compile a list of my wishes for where I’d like Lightroom to develop in the new year.

The other day someone told me that Lightroom 2's 16-bit print capability is the holy grail of printing. Up to now I've been perfectly happy with the standard 8-bit printing. But fearing I was missing out on something special I...

Often we can get too involved with the mechanics of photography and forget about the magic of just being there, seeing, and snapping pictures.

A quick Holiday Post, the time for shopping is getting short… Recently a photographer switching to Lightroom [LR] asked if he could print on a black background with a white border as he did in Photoshop [PS]. Well, the answer...

Adobe first released Lightroom in 2006 as a public beta, asking photographers to participate in the design through the associated discussion forum. While that forum is now closed, the opportunity to influence the direction of Lightroom still exists.

Stacks are pretty cool … I use them quite a bit while I shuffle around images in Library mode. There’s a very nice shortcut for creating and collapsing stacks that I’m totally digging lately … it’s ultra-simple: Select the images...

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.