Being a frequent user of Lightroom on the road, I have to use my laptop screen much more often than I'd like for color critical work. Of course, one of the secrets to effectively using Lightroom—or any other photo editing...

At last, the Photoshop Lightroom Adventure book is here in print. We've been fighting over the copies we have here in Sebastopol. I have a feeling this is one of those books that's going to disappear off the desks of...

A few weeks ago, a photographer called me who was severely frustrated. Somehow her Lightroom catalog had gotten corrupted during an editing session - after she had done many hours of work. Her images were fine as they were backed...

I am still in Siem Reap, Cambodia and I have to say that this experience has taught me that no matter how remote of an area I travel to from now on, I will never again travel without a laptop...

As the rain continues to fall in Ulefoss, Norway where we are summering, and the children brave the cold water in spite of the wettest summer on record--see photo below--I have plenty of time to ruminate about things that may...

Not only does Lightroom make picture-(technically) perfect developing possible in an instant by using the panels in the Basic and Tone Curve sections, you are also given several means of affecting specific regions, colors, and special effects within Lightroom. That's...

This week I'm shooting the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention along with Ubuntu Live 2007. Shooting two overlapping events in one week makes for lots of work. The joy of working these two shows is that they are filled with...

Lightoom remembers just about everything you do while image editing, but if you're tinkering a lot, the History pane can get quite tedious. In addition to History, I've started using the Snapshots function. When ever I get to a...

So, now that we have the fancy new sharpening sliders in Version 1.1 of Lightroom, the big question is what are the magic numbers to dial in for capture sharpening for your camera. The defaults are as in the image...

Well it is official now, Angkor Wat is not one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Here in Siem Reap, the town just down the road from the Angkor Temples, there is of course a lot of disappointment....

I'm visually oriented. Give me a well-designed UI and I'm happy. I have a limited memory for keyboard shortcuts. One keystroke is ok. Two is pushing it. Three or more... forget it. I especially like keyboard commands that follow some...

The Clarity tool is a great addition to Lightroom 1.1. It's become one of my favorite tools to use as it gives just the contrast bump that I'm typically looking for in an image. Most of the time, it gives...

Now we're at the point in the Lightroom workflow where we're ready to move into working in the Develop module. Well, almost, anyway. Just before we do that, it's a good idea to put the Library's Sorting Order to User...

Several days ago I spent an afternoon talking about digital workflow with a few fellow professional photographers here in Santa Fe: Nevada Wier and Jamey Stillings. Both are incredible, world-class photographers. During the course of our workflow discussion I started...

In the past couple of years of specializing in the workflow of digital photography and processing, there are two lessons I've learned above all others: (1) Any organized plan for a regular working procedure will save you hours of time...

Madrid, Spain: My Lightroom Adventure book has been at the printer for almost two weeks now. For me, the time between a book going to the printer and the time when it is bound and shipped and actually in my...

Recently, I acquired a new addition to my photographic tool chest in the form of a new Canon 1D Mark III. This is the first 1-series camera I've owned and I've been spending a lot of time going through all...

The new catalog structure in Lightroom version 1.1 solves a lot of problems many photographers had with Version 1.0. The biggest solution it offers is moving images between computers. I wrote an extended blog post on XMP metadata files a...

The Cross-Roads Restaurant & Motel, Pembroke, Maine I was going to write about some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1 again, but then I remembered one of the first rules of Lightroom, to enjoy the program and have...

It's easy to get excited about Lightroom 1.1's obvious new features such as Clarity, catalogs, and its powerful new sharpening controls. But there are many less sexy yet helpful improvements that all add up to make 1.1 a fantastic upgrade....

It is so easy to add keywords to whole groups of images that I'd be willing to bet that a lot of images have inherited keywords that you never meant them to have. For instance, you can highlight a whole...

One of the things I'm sure many photographers thought when they saw the iPhone for the first time is, "What a wonderful way to take my portfolio with me wherever I go!" With its brilliant screen and easy pocket-ability, it's...

Now that Mikkel Aaland has sent his Photoshop Lightroom Adventure book to the printer, he's had a little time to put together a terrific PDF download titled, The Lightroom 1.1 Library Revealed. It's a quick tour of the key...

Lightroom version 1.1 is finally here. And the good news is there are some major improvements. Check out Mikkel's post about his favorite 1.1 features. The new catalog system will solve the issues a number of pro photographers have been...