There are currently a lot of Mac users of Lightroom who are counting down the hours until Adobe releases a fix to get Lightroom working properly on Apple’s latest operating system, Leopard. From the recent announcements made, it sounds...

According to the official Lightroom team blog, we've got a few weeks to wait before we'll be able to run Lightroom seamlessly on Leopard: The good news is that we’ll be releasing an update in mid-November that will address key...

One of the keys to accurate color in the digital age is white balance - both in the camera and in the processing this is perhaps the most important tool we work with to assure consistent and accurate colors, especially...

For those of you wondering about Lightroom compatibility with Leopard, the answer is in Adobe's Support for Mac OS X Leopard PDF. In this document, they state Lightroom 1.2 is not fully certified for Mac OS X Leopard and that...

Oct. 27 update: If you are using the latest Mac OSX Safari browser you will probably not see much difference in any of the images below. If you switch to another browser the article should make more sense. I am...

I thought it might be fun to throw my personal wish list for features to be seen in the next version. For all I know, Adobe may be working on everything on this list and much, much more. On the...

Ok, here’s a question that has me stumped. Maybe someone out there has an answer, The question comes from Eric Charles, directed to me on the ASMPNorCal Lightroom forum. He wonders if there is a way to set a specific...

No matter how many times I take my camera with me to new destinations—whether it is across an ocean or just one timezone away—there is a common thread from one trip to the next: I can never remember to...

As the photographer for O'Reilly conferences the last three years, I've had lots of opportunities to make photographs of Tim O'Reilly. Most of these photographs are standard stage fare with front lighting and general stage props. They get the job...

Monitor Calibration is one of those rare topics that isn't really talked about that often, but it is the cornerstone of any digital workflow. If you don't have a calibrated and profiled monitor then any work you do in the...

While photographing the giant heads of the Bayon temple of Angkor Thom a few days ago, I remembered that I had recently found and put a few of my old special effects filters from the 1970s into my camera...

Suppose you could do an entirely different processing interpretation of the same photo for different end uses, keep them all in you Library where you could reference them easily, and even create a slide show, printed portfolio, contact sheet, or...

While this entry is not specific to Lightroom per se — it is just as applicable to other imaging applications such as Aperture or even the duo of Camera Raw & Photoshop — it crystallized while sorting through a...

Starting tomorrow, I'll be shooting the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It's the 3rd year in a row I've shot this show, and I know from experience that a very challenging conference to shoot. Web 2.0 Summit is a...

I’m developing a real respect for the people who make their living in tech support. They are the ones on the front lines who constantly have to figure out if a problem is a bug, a user-error, or simply an...

One of the best features about Lightroom, perhaps even the best feature is how Lightroom allows us to edit our images quickly and painlessly. I have touched on my editing process with Lightroom in several posts but never actually explained...

I wasn't really meaning to post another article on white balance this week, but I had a similar experience to the one David Miller related in his posting, just two days ago. On a trip to the Rayong Aquarium (located...

For those of us, including myself, who are major Lightroom fanatics, it’s easy to think that it’s everyone’s holy grail. I was recently lucky enough to be included in an email conversation between to very professional photographer friends and ASMP...

George Mann’s previous post illustrated the effects of Lightroom’s white balance presets. In the event that one of the presets don’t fill your needs, you are, of course, free to set your own balance, either with the eyedropper (as...

Working an assignment as a team has many perks, not the least being that you have two angles to work shots with and twice as many chances to capture fleeting moments. Another perk is that you have two sets of...

I'm finally getting up to speed with Photoshop CS3 and I'm really excited about the new Photomerge. The old one was ok, but the new one really rocks and does a great job of merging and blending multiple images shot...

Last week a few readers said it would be nice to see a few examples of Chromatic Aberration and how it was removed. I didn't include any with the last post because chromatic aberration is different in every image. But...

I have been to Georgetown, Penang Island, Malaysia many times over the last three decades but it has been close to ten years since my last visit and I had expected a lot of changes. To my very pleasant surprise...

One of the greatest ironies of the power of Lightroom is you’re more or less forced to keep your original image unsullied by your adjustments. I’m always preaching the blessing of that…even to those who are working strictly in Photoshop....

Adobe’s given Lightroom users a few options to customize the application’s interface to their liking: the abilitity to create an “identity plate” immediately comes to mind. There’s at least one more purely visual preference: the “end marks” that appear...

While in Barcelona a few weeks ago and visiting Antoni Gaudí's Casa Batlló, I found myself taking pictures in a room with a very interesting balance of sunlight and tungsten light sources. In most situations, setting proper white balance means...

It’s frustrating getting simple questions I can’t answer. The other night, at the Apple store in San Francisco, I talked about the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, and then demonstrated Lightroom. When I was finished with my song and dance a...

Chromatic Aberration is one of those topics that rarely gets discussed but is a huge concern when processing digital images. Chromatic Aberration is caused by a differing refractive index for each wavelength of light - hence red refracts at a...