I love it when the real world meets the book-writing world, as it did last week when I was finishing up the slideshow chapter for my O'Reilly Lightroom Adventure book Derrick Story was down from Sebastopol and we were in...

It's a big decision when you decide on an application and platform to manage your pictures. In a few years time, your picture library might reach thousands upon thousands of images, and if the pictures are all tagged with keywords...

While reading one of the comments on Micah's Aperture vs. Lightroom post last week on the Inside Aperture website I came across a sweet trick to Auto Synch the develop module adjustments in Lightroom. I had never heard about this...

I have long admired the Loupe tool in Aperture. The first time I ever saw Aperture demonstrated the first thing that caught my eye was the Loupe tool and I was practically drooling when I saw it. As you can...

The many ways to organize photos in Lightroom include not only folders and keywords, which I covered in Part 1 of this post. Take things a step further and try out collections, Quick Collections, and stacks. Here's a quick guide...

I am a life long Nikon photographer and I believe in using Nikon products whenever possible. I don't really feel like I'm cheating on Nikon by using Adobe products like Photoshop CS and Photoshop Lightroom though, because Nikon does not...

Do you ever wish that you could just quickly look through Library's Grid view for photos of a particular subject at a particular angle... or even just photos of a particular subject? Then you wouldn't have to go through dozens...

Lightroom 1.0 shipped on Monday. Yeah! Now everyone can finally see first-hand the great features I've been writing about. Almost equally exciting to me: on Tuesday we finally settled on a cover image for my O'Reilly Lightroom Adventure book. If...

While working these last few days with Lightroom and Aperture side by side I've been playing with Stacking as well as Versions (in Aperture), which are called Virtual Copies (in Lightroom). The Virtual Copy tool in Lightroom is a very...

Do you feel great when your papers are stacked into neat piles, your transparencies tucked into slide pages, and your books arranged on the shelf? If so, you'll appreciate the variety of photo-organizing features in Lightroom. The Library module offers...

A powerful addition to Lightroom is the ability to change saturation, lightness, and hue for different colors. Until now, this feature wasn't in Camera Raw, and the need to go into Photoshop to alter each color channel made the workflow...

With all of the recent buzz about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and its release today, the big question is how it compares to Apple Aperture. In tandem with Micah Walter on the Inside Aperture website I will be conducting a comparison...

In the late 1960s when I was wandering around the New York City area with a Nikon F over my shoulder, a slice of 42nd street pizza in one hand and a Miller Highlight in the other, I was most...

Next week is going to be an exciting one for Adobe. The long awaited release of their much talked about Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 will take place on Monday following a public beta testing period that has spanned an entire year....

Lightroom is such a rich program with such an apparently simple interface that, at first, you may not appreciate how powerful it really is. Wonderful as it is to be able to process one's images non-destructively, the further you can...

In the old days, when I needed a break from working on a book, I'd make a social phone call, or tidy up my desk, or go for a walk. Now I poke around the internet and spend way too...

Vibrance is a new addition to the Lightroom Beta and is inspired from a similar control with the same name in Pixmantec Rawshooter which Adobe bought last year. I used RawShooter before I decided to switch to Photoshop CS2 Camera...

Digital "workflow" has been a buzz-word for a number of years now ever since digital took the photography world by storm. Photographers from all over the globe talk about it seemingly non-stop. They chat on forums, take digital workflow workshops...

Now that we have finally made it to the "final" version of Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom, I think it is about time to say a few words about the all important graphic user interface and what it means to the end...

One of the features on our new Inside Lightroom site will be excerpts from the upcoming book Photoshop Lightroom Adventure by Mikkel Aaland. Each self-contained piece will give you handy insight into a specific area of Lightroom to help get...

About five years ago, when I first started flirting with digital image capture I quickly realized that the cameras, while not perfect worked quite well. In comparison, it was the software side of the equation that needed a lot of...

One of the most daunting steps in most photographers' workflow is to go through the pictures after a shot and select and rate photos. Often photographers take few dozens or hundreds of photographs in a shoot and just go quickly...

Do you ever wish that you could just quickly look through Library's Grid view for photos of a particular subject at a particular angle...or even just photos of a particular subject? Then you wouldn't have to go through dozens or...