May 31, 2007 Tom Hogarty, Adobe Lighroom's product manager said today in his blog "Lightroom will be updated in the near future". I invite everyone to check out his exact words, and then, to all of you who have been...

I'm sure many of you may already know this trick, but I was thrilled when I heard about it. I'll call it the F2 trick. Did you know that you can rename virtually any group of files you've pre-selected in...

One of the first features that I played with in Lightroom was the "Lights Out" feature. Press the L key once and the interface around the photograph you are looking at fades out. Press again and the interface fades completely...

In my most recent Newsletter - sent out just a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about digital and color. Mostly the article spoke about how my sense of color has changed in the last few years, since...

Not all photographers are dependent on printing their images or having their image files reproduced in magazines and books (at least not all the time). And all current indicators say that in the future more and more photography will remain...

Mikkel's wonderful book titled, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure is nearing completion. What makes this effort so unique is that it combines an expert guide with gorgeous images from Iceland, all captured by the Iceland Adventure Team. It's coffee table meets workstation....

Many digital camera manufacturers offer custom image effects that are sometimes quite compelling. The Canon 5D, for example, offers you a choice of electronic filters and toning effects to create a specific black and white look. But if you are...

As artists, we all have a perfect right to re-interpret the world to match our fondest dreams or wildest ideas...as long as we don't misrepresent the final result as the truth (my opinion, anyway). Lightroom's amazing adjustment tools can make...

Quite a few people I know are using external drives to hold their Lightroom databases and images on. I'm one of them. With many of my shoots pushing the 50GB of data mark, and with over half a TB of...

I love learning things in the books I'm editing that even the uber-gurus around me didn't know yet. Here's one I got to spring on Derrick, who was contemplating his new-found respect for Bridge 2.0 and wishing out loud...

My last week's post about using Lightroom on multiple computers has received some excellent comments, and not everyone agrees about the need for this. My challenge is that both my girlfriend and I share the same camera in many situations,...

Ok, maybe bliss was overstating it in that header but keyboard short cuts are key in just about every software application and Lightroom has a few that I find super useful. I'll list my most favorite and most used keyboard...

My Lightroom Adventure book tech editor, Doug Nelson, and I got in an argument the other day about the value of placing certain camera EXIF data under the Library module Histogram....

I ran across this question today from someone who says that he does not print that many of his images or do anything specific with them, but he would like to just simply be able to view them at maximum...

One of the biggest blessings in Lightroom is the Web module...at least, to my way of thinking. There are plenty of easy ways to crank out a quick web photo gallery. Most every application that processes photos has some sort...

The metadata browser in Lightroom offers an informative hierarchical tree of information based on the various bits and bobs of metadata that are associated with your images. From the moment I saw this, I became fascinated with the way that...

My girlfriend and I both have Macs at our home, and we are very much into photography and use both machines for working on our pictures. The problem we run in to is that Lightroom is a single user application...

One of the tricks I learned very early on when I started shooting digital was to use custom white balance settings while shooting. Every DSLR that I know of will let you set a "Custom" or "Preset" white balance. How...

Many of us that have now been using Adobe Lightroom for over a year, have forgotten that most photographers in the world have not even tried it yet, or even know what all the fuss is about. So I searched...

In an earlier blog I wrote about Lightroom's contextual menus, which are like hidden Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the user interface, revealed with a right/click of the mouse. But, hey, there are more surprises! Try this and you'll see what...

One of the Lightroom Print module's strengths is the ease with which you can adjust the print margins so that you can place the image pretty much anywhere on a page that you like. Like most everything else in Lightroom,...

Without a doubt, the most tedious activity for me in processing a shoot is applying keywords and writing captions. There's magic in the develop module when you make a photo the best it can be. And the process of ranking...

Synonyms are a very powerful feature of Lightroom Keyword system. It allows you to define for each keyword in you keyword list synonyms that save time, especially when keywording for stock agencies, Lightroom, Photosharing sites etc. to maximize changes of...

In my last blog post about XMP sidecar files and Lightroom, there were quite a few comments and questions. In the course of answering some of those questions, I realized that there are a few tricks to using the XMP...

Sometimes some things seem very simple on the surface but are actually a little more complicated under the skin. For instance you would assume that the default setting for a RAW image file in the Develop Module of Lightgroom would...

Lightroom has plenty of hidden contextual menus, and like Easter eggs, they are fun to find. To reveal one of these menus simply place your cursor over a thumbnail, panel pane, or work area and right-click. On a Mac hold...

Picking what tools to use in the digital darkroom is hard. For a while, it was difficult because all the tools were apparently built by people who weren't talking to photographers. For a long time, we all suffered through using...

One of the reasons I fell in love with Lightroom when I first saw it was because it seemed to have so much promise when it came to keeping my photographs organized and easy-to-retreive when I needed them. Now that...