I have spent several hours playing with Apple Aperture 2.0 this past weekend and I have to say I am impressed with all of the improvements Apple has made to the Lightroom competitor. I am also glad to see that...

The other day a friend of mine asked me to come to his house and help him create a simple website slide show. About a year ago he had bought Lightroom (at my suggestion), so I told him to just...

If you're using Lightroom to manage your photos, you are probably serious about your photographs. And if you are indeed serious, then practicing good color management is essential to getting the most out of your work. I recommend that everyone...

Lately, I've been experimenting with using the Clipping Indicators and dragging the Histogram to insure a full dynamic range in an image. For the most part, it's a very effective way to make an image look it's best with minimum...

With the release of Adobe’s Lightroom Export SDK, developers and users alike can take advantage of Lightroom’s image processing and format conversion engine to do some very cool things. During my search for a Lightroom RAW export plugin I have...

I’m not sure at what point this snuck into Lightroom’s preferences (it could very well have been there since the initial release), but somewhere along the way it managed to become unchecked: the “Show photos in navigator on mouse-over”...

Until Lightroom came along, I always did my sharpening as the last step in the workflow. I still prefer that in general, but I have found that Lightroom's Sharpening tools work very well.

Exporting images out of Lightroom is one of the simplest tasks imaginable. But what you may not realize or have thought about is what happens when you export images in a color space other than ProPhoto RGB. I bring this...

Have you ever noticed that almost every online discussion on Photoshop and Lightroom color management ends ups with an "expert" becoming extremely belligerent and insulting? The discussion usually revolves around exporting a JPEG image out of Lightroom and then discovering...

I’ve been trying out submitting my photos to Picture Stock. Picture Stock (http:www.picturestock.com) is an “agency” for Stock Photo agencies. When you submit your photos to them, they make sure they’re “punchy”, keyword them, copy them to CDs, and submit...

Here at our studio, we began providing RAW processing services for wedding, portrait, and editorial photographers in early 2008. Since then we have processed thousands of photos for clients and have spent countless hours delivering them via client supplied hard...

I don't recall any other bloggers posting here about the incredible usefulness of the option key in conjunction with several sliders in the Develop Module of Lightroom. This is a well known "trick" of the trade and a huge reason...

Lightroom 1.4 and Adobe Camera Raw 4.4 were released last week. However, it has come to Adobe's attention that things aren't all happy with these updates and that if you've installed it, you should rollback to previous versions. If you're...

As powerful as shooting with digital cameras and using software applications like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to process the images are, it is becoming obvious to me that a perfect exposure and dead accurate focusing is still as important as it...

Hot off the press is Lightroom 1.4 (and its companion, Camera Raw 4.4). Check out Adobe’s Lightroom Journal to see what’s new (or cut straight to the release notes); the short and sweet of it includes: support for recently introduced...

Ever since Adobe announced an SDK for making Lightroom plug-ins I've been curious to see how third parties might expand the program's capabilities and efficiency. So I've been keeping a list of the plug-ins I've been hearing about. I haven't...

In continuing with my theme of sharing in last weeks post, I want to delve into the topic of virtual copies and how my team and I have been leveraging them in our collaborative workflow. We’ll look at how we...

Multiple catalogs can be a good way to segment large image libraries, especially with diverse content.

When Mac OS X Leopard was released, it came with a cautionary note about Time Machine compatibility with Aperture databases. Soon after, Adobe released information that the interaction between Lightroom and Time Machine was unknown. Of course, we all presumed...

I am finally back from Patagonia (southern Chile) and it seems there are a lot of comments on my last four blog posts which were written over a month ago before I left. I'll be responding to those comments as...

Lightroom’s interface is strongly segregated among the tasks the application is designed to tackle: organizing, developing, and exporting your photos to various media. Accordingly, only the relevant tools and information are presented to you, depending on where you happen...

For quite a few years now I have been in search of the perfect portable image storage device. I have experimented with storage devices from Archos, Epson and a number of not so well known Taiwanese manufacturers. Some of these...

One of the biggest problems with keywords is that there are so many synonyms in the English language. So how do you know that one specific keyword for one specific thing will always be the case? After all, if it's...

In a previous posting, David Miller punctuated some great points regarding traveling with presets and templates This topic goes hand-in-hand with James Davison’s tips for keeping things straight using multiple catalogs. When working in collaboration with other editors, our team...

While speaking with Steve Yadzinski, a colleague of mine lately, who also happens to be a top Photoshop retoucher, it became clear just how important folder naming conventions are in Lightroom. I cannot stress enough how important it is to...

For many people, putting all of their images into a single Lightroom catalog works just fine. When everything is in a single catalog, things are easy. All of your keywords are in one place and you can search among all...