The one thing that the Print Module doesn't do that I wish it did is make it easy to send proofs to clients...especially those who don't know much about computers. You see, being out of the country has a cruel...

This is a rather extreme example of digital camera noise reduction, but the camera used for this image is the fairly popular and affordable Nikon D40, so it is a valid example of a situation that many photographers find themselves...

The problems I blogged about last week with my Lightroom library were mostly—but not completely—fixed by rebuilding my preview database. My library of around 2800 images was useable, but there were still some irritating things happening that hadn't been cleared...

There have been a few posts recently that cover the benefits of traveling with Lightroom while on assignment, and I recently discussed the benefits of using presets to do some of your editing and cataloging dirty work. This post...

I just read Scott Kelby's blog post about having to remove his DSLR from his camera bag when going through airport security in Minneapolis. Got me thinking about the security line dance performance I already do and have worked hard...

Yet another great feature of Lightroom is that you can use a more advanced external image editor to work on your images if Lightroom can't do what you need it to do. Now don't get me wrong, Lightroom is incredibly...

For lots of people, the upgrade to Lightroom 1.2 seems to have gone smoothly. Mikkel describes it as a maintenance upgrade. For me, however, it wasn't quite as smooth. After upgrading, I'd run into spinning beachballs that required a force...

On the surface this image was fairly difficult to process in Lightroom and I will for sure have to take it into Photoshop CS3, to get the best results. The foreground of the image is in a very deep...

Going from Lightroom 1.0 to 1.1 was a major upgrade, with considerable changes to both features and performance. Last week Adobe announced Lightroom 1.2 and while there are no new features, there have been some under the hood changes that...

Well, being in a foreign location certainly can force one to take one's Lightroom thinking a step further. Here in Costa Rica, at this time of year, it rains every afternoon, sometimes, in sheets. The result is a lot of...

There are three adjustment sliders in the “Presence” section of the “Basic” panel in the Development module (whew, did you get all of that?): Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation. There have been a few posts here on Inside Lightroom about...

A few weeks ago I discussed using Lightroom as a Digital Asset Management tool and while answering some questions posed by readers I had the idea that giving each project its own catalog might be an interesting concept. The pros...

Last Tuesday night, at an ASMPNorCal event led by Bill Atkinson and Joseph Holmes titled, The Color of Nature: From High-End Digital Capture to Fine Art, I watched an entire room of professional photographers experience an epiphany....

I know it often seems like several of us on this blog site are talking about the same thing, but I assure you that it is pure coincidence and I hope all the readers get as much out of...

Well, I’m headed to another country to do a bit of babysitting. Some old friends have a ranch in Costa Rica in a stunning location just south of one of Costa Rica’s national parks. After a couple of weeks of...

Cropping and/or straightening your photos can be initiated in one of three ways: tapping the “r” key, selecting “View” and then “Crop” from the menu, or clicking the “Crop Overlay” button displayed in the command bar underneath your photos...

Some images simply pop in color and can stand a healthy dose of vibrance. Others just work better in black and white. Luckily, with digital RAW capture, you can postpone the decision of whether to finish an image in color...

This week I have been shooting rock climbing in Devils Tower National Monument in the hinterlands of Wyoming. It has been a long week of heavy packs and hard work. But I also had the chance to photograph an incredible...

Photoshop Lightroom Adventure is going into reprint, which means it's selling very well AND I have a chance to fix any small errors or typos in the book… So, dear readers and owners of my book, I’m asking for your...

I hadn't checked the digital workflow forums in a while and thought I better check to see what is giving Lightroom users problems these days. To my surprise I saw that the biggest issue still seems to be performance related,...

Well, they're not so much hidden as easily forgotten. In this blog, I'm going to remind you of some of my favorite features that are so subtly presented in the interface that, if you're not careful, you can easily forget...

Lightroom’s Develop module has 7 groups of adjustment tools: Basic, Tone Curve, HSL / Color / Grayscale, Split Toning, Detail, Lens Corrections, and Camera Calibration. These groups appear in the image below, and on all but the first group...

Last week, I was Wiesbaden, Deutschland, hanging out with fellow photo geek Patrick Lenz. We ran about, took lots of pictures, and traded notes about both photography and Lightroom. Wiesbaden was a lot of fun, especially since it's off the...

A nice feature of the new Lightroom catalogs is that you can have multiple catalogs. I have been playing around lately with exporting and saving catalogs for individual photo shoots which I then archive along with the raw images. It...