As a pro photographer I am sometimes called to upload images the same day they are shot - it isn't often that this is required but every once in a while a few assignments require it. One of the very...

I hope 2007 was a great year for everyone! Remember to put the camera down for a little while over the holiday and enjoy your time with friends and family, and I hope the New Year brings in everything...

I expanded on this idea from a blog of Matt Koslowski's on creating "presets" for Christmas slide shows. All he had to do was create a couple of images that would make good backgrounds, put those images into any of...

The snowy landscape is a staple of Christmas imagery, even for those that live in otherwise snowless climes. One year, I was in Hawaii in mid-December and was amazed at all the holiday decorations that involved snow and Santas wearing...

While hanging out with my good friend Nevada Wier last week, we talked about Lightroom and some tricks she learned while teaching her last photo workshop in India with George Jardine, the Adobe Lightroom evangelist. One of the options she...

I'm writing this piece as part of my own journey of discovery while looking for ways to improve on my keywords. There are three reasons I want to do this: (1) I want to build a list of keywords that...

Ever since Lightroom 1.3 was released with support for export plugins, I've been looking forward to being able to export directly to Flickr from inside Lightroom. Today, while searching around on the net, I found that fellow O'Reilly author Jeffrey...

For those photographers out there that are running Lightroom on Leopard and are still struggling with Lightroom's print quality (or lack thereof), be sure to keep tabs on [this post](http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/12/printing_on_leopard_with_light.html) from Adobe's Tom Hogarty over at the [Lightroom Journal](http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/).

I’ve already done a blog on the advantages of using presets to “preview” effects and processing so that you can immediately see a direction you might want to go in for a given image. If you’re in Develop mode and...

I might be opening a huge can of worms here and I am sure this will generate quite a bit of user comments but with Lightroom I think this is very applicable. In a previous post I talked about what...

In my quest to track my photos out in the wild, I’ve settled upon an efficient but slightly–less–than–ideal solution: drag the photos in question from Lightroom (both the filmstrip and grid will work as drag sources) to my destination of...

Last week, over on the Inside Aperture blog, Micah Walter mused on what would happen if his RAW workflow tool went away. What would happen to the metadata and the image adjustments? I have to admit, it's a thought that...

Last week, Dominey Design, the makers of SlideShowPro, announced that they have created a new version of the popular slideshow software that works within Lightroom. Ever curious to find new ways of using Lightroom I downloaded a copy of the...

As most of you probably know by now, a few days ago Adobe released ACR 4.3.1. In the release notes it mentioned that there was an update for the new Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 cameras (among other things). I...

Lightroom has a new "feature" in release 1.3 that I've not yet heard anyone mention: When you ship your image over to Photoshop to do the things that Lightroom can't, then bring the image back into Lightroom, it's no longer...

Ideally, most of us preach that you should organize your Lightroom workflow along the lines of the order in which the Lightroom modules appear. So you should start in the by adding the metadata and keywords, delete the images that...

My last post describes how I started (loosely) keeping track of where my photos end up. For example, my photos published in Fast Forward have the “Fast Forward” keyword applied to them through my “Exported” keyword set. However, I’d like...

Sometimes when you're out making photos, things don't always go just as you'd like. You can be in the most stunning scenery, but the light won't cooperate. This happened to me a few days ago while traveling through the Big...

This week I was reminded of my old workflow when I first started shooting with digital SLR cameras. I was late to jump into the digital game - starting with a Nikon D70 back in 2003. I dipped my toes...