Even though I am pretty used to working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom now and it is part of my everyday personal workflow, I still do not leave my entire life's work on Lightroom, at least not all of it at...

Strike the P while any or several images are highlighted in Lightroom to save yourself a lot of time. Striking the P assigns the highlighted image(s) as a Quick Pick. At the bottom of the screen in the Filters...

It's normal this time of year to ask, "What did you do for your vacation?" Yesterday I ran into Adobe's Bill Stotzner and he told me he took Lightroom underwater for his vacation. Let me explain....

Getting copies of your developed & processed images (whether they be JPEGs, PSDs, TIFFs) or your original RAW files out of Lightroom is just as easy as getting your untouched originals in to the application: simply select which files...

One of the things that really surprised me about my last post on the Inside Lightroom blog was how visually effective scrubbing through an image history is. I was amazed at how well it let me see the evolution of...

In my last blog post, talking about the Tom Hogarty interview, I decided to investigate just how well Lightroom would work as a digital asset management tool. I must say that I am reporting the facts as they are here...

For the last year I've been pretty much Lightroom-centric but now I'm updating my Photoshop RAW book to CS3 and I'm straying back into the world of Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. It's giving me a chance to write about...

I was going to write a Lightroom post this week but who are we kidding? Nobody is thinking about Lightroom right now. Everybody is still in shock from the newest camera announcements from Canon and Nikon. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III...

I've already written about the Slideshow module in a general way in an earlier O'Reilly blog. This blog is just to emphasize it's use as a quick way to communicate the results of a shoot to a remote client, fan,...

After playing around with Lightroom you’ll grow familiar with its two faces: the first is that of a management & cataloging application (the Library module), the other is akin to an image editor (the Develop module). While I—and I’m...

The other morning I was up unusually early, thanks to a hungry cat, and was able to photograph a great sunrise over Portland. It's not often that I'm up for sunrise, but whenever I am, I always sort of wish...

Last Friday an interview with Tom Hogarty went live on Inside Lightroom. To check that interview out click on the link below: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2007/08/17/interview-with-tom-hogarty.html In the interview, Tom was gracious enough to speak with me about future improvements to Lightroom, Lightroom's...

I'm back in the US and taking a short break from teaching at the 16th Annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers conference in Corte Madera, California. The attendees are great, and several of them are quite accomplished photographers. It's...

Once you've done all your processing in Lightroom and Photoshop...or at least, all the processing you need to do on your main candidates for presentation to your client...it then becomes time to make that presentation. You could use any or...

When I saw this scene in front of me, I realized that it was going to be very difficult to get what I was seeing. For one it was very dark and I was standing on a very narrow and...

Despite the raised eyebrows, I insisted on taking my portable 4 x 6 dye-sub printer on my trip to Ireland. You know, I never missed that fourth pair of shoes, especially when I was having fun making personalized postcards with...

The other night, my father and I took a day trip out over the mountains and into central Oregon. Our aim was to find a nice dark spot far away from any bright lights so that we could enjoy the...

In Lightroom, as most of us know there are no color spaces to choose until you export an image. I'd like to demystify exactly what is going on in Lightroom and how it deals with color spaces. First, lets talk...

We just closed up the summer house in Norway, and we are enroute back to San Francisco. It's been a memorable week, filled with many positive events. First, on Monday, there was Michael Reichmann's Luminous Landscape piece on the Lightroom...

When you can't decide how you want to process a particular image, the easiest thing to do is to make a number of Virtual Copies and apply various settings or presets to the individual images. At any point you can...

This series of my blogs is all about how I make use of Lightroom's workflow. I have to confess that I've left out one logical step in the overall workflow, camera calibration, because I simply haven't found a strong enough...

iPhoto and Aperture users have nice plug-ins to go from their photo management apps directly to Flickr. While we wait for Lightroom's plug-in architecture, here's a nifty way to streamline your Flickr workflow. First make sure you have a current...

Several months back, I'd picked up the 8 QuickTime movies that composed the Adobe Lightroom Tutorial by Michael Reichmann and Jeff Schewe. At $14.95, it seemed like a great deal and a good way to potentially learn a few things....

A few weeks ago, I was asked to produce a slideshow for our New Mexico chapter of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers). The slideshow would run continuously at the Photo Arts Santa Fe tradeshow in the ASMP-NM booth on...

I have to confess that I'm not the most diligent user of keyword, so when I am looking for specific related images, I have to hunt through a number of folders that I know contain the images I am looking...

On Tuesday, while shooting images at a small iron foundry here in Ulefoss, Norway for my Under the Hood, Working Raw project, I messed up. What followed is both a testimonial for Lightroom and shooting in the RAW mode....

In my last blog, I talked about the workflow for using the Develop module. For most of us, that's all you need to know for processing about eighty-percent of your images. Furthermore, the speed and beautiful and intuitive interface of...

Did you ever sit down to diligently apply keywords to your images in Lightroom's Library module, only to be distracted by a particular shot that you just know could really be made fabulous with just a few tweaks in the...