Got one of those "old fashioned" digital cameras that doesn't have dust removal? It's time you thought about Lightroom's instant dust-removal. That's not so much a named feature as something you can easily do by using a combination of the...

In my previous post I discussed my love affair with Lightroom presets as a way to extend my workflow and in turn automate post-processing. This week we’re going to visit the bleeding egde of Lightroom’s plugin architecture to look at...

Shortly after reading the last post from fellow Inside Lightroom blogger, I was browsing through my catalog of images and came across an image that I had given a little more “attention” to than others. Generally speaking, I don’t...

In the comments to my previous posts about storing a photo library, quite a few people have mentioned using an online backup solution like Amazon S3 or Mozy. I've looked into this many times and keep running the two sets...

Several weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the new SlideShowPro plug-in for Lightroom. Since that blog post I have gotten a chance to play around with SlideShowPro quite a bit and I have completely revamped my photography website...

I'm not a big beleiver in the idea that a photograph's purpose is to be a record of what's there...particularly when it comes to fine-art photography. If what you do in Photoshop creates a favorable emotional response from an audience,...

It all started with Photoshop actions, which I still use daily in my workflow. Yet, my biggest gripe has always been the ability (or lack thereof) to preview the result of an action before applying it to my image. When...

Looking through my catalog in Lightroom, I’ve noticed that almost all of my favourite shots taken in the past few months full under the “Architecture” category (er, keyword). I’m sure there’s some sort of explanation for this, but I’m not...

In last week's blog post, I mentioned that I was done talking about storage of photo libraries. I lied. Over the course of the last seven days, I've had dozens of conversations with photographers about storage. Even at the end...

Using standard keywords helps you and potential buyers find your images faster. Lightroom makes it easy to add structured keywords such as the Controlled Vocabulary list.

Now that Lightroom has been on the market for almost a year, I find myself taking it for granted. My digital workflow has been solidly established with Lightroom as the centerpiece. And with the addition of a new zippy Apple...

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is an amazingly simple and powerful technology that can be leveraged within Lightroom to quickly and easily upload a selection of images directly to any server that supports the FTP standard. I use this feature for...

If you shot a whole series of wedding or event photos using natural light at high ISO settings, this could be a very useful tip. Use Lightroom's Auto Import feature to add a pre-set to all the images as they're...

On a recent getaway to San Francisco I realized that I had left my polarizing filter behind after heading out to hoof around the city for a day. I was kicking myself for being so thoughtless as the early...

Starting out on New Year's Day, I've been writing about storage here on the Inside Lightroom and evidently it's hit a nerve as my fellow blogger Micheal Clark has also chimed in on storage solutions. What with all these posts...

It's easy to learn the basic image adjustment controls in Lightroom, and experimenting is a great way to see how these controls work.

In last weeks blog I asked for feedback and the topic with the most requests was storage solutions. So I thought this week I would cover my storage solution for my images and business files. Back in November 2007 I...

When I am out of ideas for this blog and looking for inspiration, I often find myself surfing the web forums and seeing what the photo hobbyists are up to. Since they are doing it for the love of photography...

You probably already know this, but Lightroom has many shortcuts that I haven’t listed here. If you know them all, you’ll save even more time. There’s a really easy way to see what they are for any given module you...

We all know how easy Lightroom makes it to sort through the “rejects”, “maybes”, and “keepers” in your catalog. But be sure to pay extra attention when filing through your shots before heaving them into the trash, as you...

It's been interesting reading people's views and suggestions about how to handle storage for a large photo library. The feedback I've seen on this topic in the comments to my last Inside Lightroom post has spanned quite an impressive range...

Once a week when I sit down to write a blog post for the Inside Lightroom site I struggle to come up with interesting topics - after all in the last year I have written over 50 blog posts and...

I'm not going to pretend that any of these are original ideas. In fact, if they were, most of them wouldn't be in Lightroom because I didn't suggest them. Thank heavens, others did, however. Ever since I arrived in Costa...

Only one thing is a “for sure” in 2008: the Date category in your metadata browser will have another entry added to it. Apart from that, what else will happen? It safe to say that 2008 will surely be another...

New Year's is always a good time for resolutions. Sometimes, the best resolutions are the small approachable ones that solve big problems in your life. For example, one of my big problems right now is storage for my photo library....