Since the new CS3 software collection was announced a few days ago and the smooching at the Photoshop Love Fest (Photoshop World Conference & Expo) will commence in a few more days, I thought this might be the appropriate...

One of the most time-saving features of Lightroom is Presets. Presets are very much like Macros or Actions in Photoshop. Lightroom lets you create two different kinds of Presets: Develop Presets and Metadata Presets. I'll do an upcoming blog about...

Ruth Knoll is presenting a Soup2Nuts session on Adobe Lightroom at next week's Photoshop World. Ruth has put together a fairly amazing group of gurus for this four-hour session, including a hands-on workshop conducted Adobe Evangelist and Lightroom Iceland Adventurer,...

I've been happily downloading different versions of Lightroom from the Adobe site for the last year and a half. But then last week a friend told me he had actually purchased the software and IT CAME IN A BOX!...

Probably most readers know about how RSS feeds can save time and make it easier to follow a blog like this. For those who don't read on: Web pages which frequently publish new content usually support RSS feeds (Really Simple...

This past week I have participated in several forums and speed issues with Adobe Lightroom was a hot topic. It seems many are finding Lightroom to be very slow which I found rather curious since I have had the opposite...

I have to admit that until recently I was not much of a fan of the Quick Develop panel in the Library module. I figured, what the heck if I want to develop an image I will go to the...

I'm always leaving my polarizing filter in the wrong camera bag. Yet I live in West Marin County...one of the nicest places on Earth for taking nature pictures. Given all the lovely sunny days we've been having lately, however, with...

Like any new application, Lightroom 1.0 is going through the "introduction" phase, and there are some misunderstandings about what it can and cannot do. Here is my ever-growing list:...

I think it's important to give pictures unique file names at the beginning of the workflow to avoid possible confusion up the road. A typical file name from digital camera looks something like this: IMG_1700.JPG. The number used in the...

In my last newsletter (Winter 2007) I wrote an editorial on "Getting back to Photography". After three or more years of trying to stay on top of the latest workflows, new software releases and digital techniques I feel like I...

This is probably the biggest question I get from Lightroom users. How do I create multiple Libraries on different external hard disk drives? And how do I move from one library to another on different hard disk drives, while using...

What I love about the Lightroom's Print module is you are not limited to sending one image at a time to your printer. With a click of the print button you can send your entire Library to the printer, or...

I was lucky enough to be present last night at the Northern California Chapter of ASMP's (American Society of Media Photographer's) meeting at which Tom Hogan of Adobe and Joseph Schorr from Apple each presented their views of Lightroom and...

If you've just discovered Lightroom or you just haven't had a chance to get in there and start working with it, check out the Getting Started section of Inside Lightroom (over there on the right). We've put a bunch...

Let's face it - organizing photos today by location, subject, keywords, people etc. can be a cumbersome task. A photographer must be a very organized to stay on top of these tasks, especially when assignments include different locations, subjects and...

One of the most useful new features in Adobe Lightroom Version 1.0 is the Targeted Adjustment tool. While they have a whacky name, they are very easy to use. The Targeted Adjustment tool lives in the Develop module in the...

Because Adobe Lightroom marketing has so far only been targeted at professional and enthusiast level photographers, the consumer can be forgiven for thinking that Lightroom is useful as an organizing, editing and presentation tool for photographers only. The slideshow and...

Last week in San Jose, I felt like a kid in a candy store. I had lunch with Lightroom's father, Mark Hamburg, and three others from the LR engineering team: Kevin Tieskoetter, Donna Powell, and Bill Stotzner. LR marketing manager...

One thing I'm re-discovering as Lightroom makes maintenance chores easier, is the power of keywords when it comes to assembling candidates for a project-type, such as one-off books, greeting cards, calendars, and stock photo categories is the power of keywords....

Well, after a few weeks of comparing Lightroom and Aperture my final field test report is up on the Inside Lightroom website. For the last few weeks Micah Walter, on the Inside Aperture site, and myself have been conducting parallel...

One of the annoyances of digital cameras with interchangeable lenses is dust on the sensor. The sensor can be like a magnet for dust when changing lenses and it needs to be cleaned from time to time. Some modern cameras...

Don't miss a spot when you're cleaning up a large photo with the Remove Spots tool in the Develop module. Rather than scrolling around randomly looking for dust spots, use this trick to make sure you've examined every bit of...

When I say all of us, I am of course referring to all of us photographers. I remember that even as far back as my early teens, I would anxiously await the latest copies of Popular Photography and Modern Photography...

I loved Mikkel Aaland's piece on how to create a QuickTime movie with the Slideshow module. First, I'd been looking for a way to do that because I'd like to narrate and add music to some slideshows that talk about...well,...