I have as usual been surfing the digital photography forums for a suitable topic for this week's blog posting and the winner by a clear mile is the new Clarity adjustment in Lightroom 1.1. As an easy image enhancement addition...

First, lest I be left out, let me tell you that Lightroom 1.1 is available as a free download to anyone who already has a copy of Lightroom 1.0. More importantly, you'll be very glad you downloaded and installed it....

You are in for a treat! Lightroom 1.1 is available today and I think you'll be amazed at what Adobe has done in the short time since the original release of 1.0. I still can't believe they are calling it...

My favorite thing about the release of Lightroom 1.1? We're going to press this week with Mikkel's beautiful book, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure. And we're doing so knowing that it will be the most up-to-date Lightroom book out there. Over...

It's Christmas in Summer. The iPhone arrives in just a few days, along with Pixar's new film, Ratatouille. The new Canon 1D Mark III is slowly starting to ship out to people and I was lucky enough to get mine...

Photographers often ask me how to get the right exposure with night landscapes. It's a tricky topic. My experience is that the light meter in my dSLR is pretty much worthless for anything that is dark enough to need an...

One of the very nice features in Lightroom is the ability to create web galleries directly from RAW images. It is as simple as selecting a group of images in the Library module and clicking on "Web" in the upper...

I was working on an article for my Lightroom eBook this week on dust spot removal and could not find any images in my Lightroom Library that had any dust spots. Strange as it may seem in the last couple...

One of the primary things that makes shooting and processing in RAW such a revolution is the possibility of making multiple "exposures" of the same frame and the same image and then combining in Photoshop to get an end result...

Since January, I've been spending most of my time away from home. This means that while I've got all the hard drive space I need at home, I've been getting a bit creative to keep my images near to me...

I was helping my son make a Father's Day present this past weekend, printing out images of him and his dad playing baseball. My first instinct was to send them to Costco for printing, but it was 105 degrees...

Judging brightness and white balance using any RAW processing software can be a tricky situation. In Lightroom's Develop Module I often use the Lights Out and Lights Dim feature to work with my images especially when I am working with...

Michael Clark posted earlier this week about using templates in Lightroom's print module. I find being able to setup templates in the print module extremely handy as well and have recently taken things a step further. You see, sometimes when...

Last week I was taken to task by a reader because of a statement I made about switching to Photoshop CS3 Extended because of it's advanced High Dynamic Range capability. Basically the question was, why should I spend another US...

Here's a situation that all of us face from time to time: We spend a day shooting as much as we can and doing it as fast as we can, return to home base, download a few hundred images, delete...

A few weeks ago, Mikkel talked about all the handy contextual (right-click) menus in Lightroom. Yesterday, when we met to do final finishing touches for the book, I showed him how the new MacBook and MacBook Pros have a...

One little fancy feature that many miss is the Templates that can be saved in the Print Module and in the Slideshow and Web Modules as well. I'll just cover the Print Module here as the others function in pretty...

It is easy to see how both Photoshop old timers and new Photoshop users may be confused as to which of the new Photoshop products to buy, or to upgrade to at this time. 1. Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 - The...

I just came across a problem with the versatility of Lightroom's print module... and a couple of solutions that work pretty well, for the time-being. The problem: I couldn't initially figure out how to print several instances of the same...

Last week, Mikkel hinted broadly on this blog that he's been holding up the release of his Lightroom book because of the pending Lightroom update. And Tom Hogarty, the product manager of both Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom, has also...

The other really powerful and photographer-friendly DAM non-destructive RAW processing software, after Lightroom and Aperture, is LightZone. Just recently, a new version of LightZone was announced that seems to be much faster than the original. They've also added quite a...

Adobe Lightroom has the best grayscale conversion technique I have ever used. It is so intuitive and easy that I find myself converting a large number of my images to Grayscale. In the Develop Module, at the top of the...

Adobe has just released a new version of Camera RAW and acknowledged that the next version (or update) of Photoshop Lightroom will contain the new features found in Camera RAW 4.1. The main current features that have been improved are...

I work as a developer, and one of my interests is UI (user interface) design. I place so much value on this that I even started using the Mac platform more because I prefer the OS X user interface over...