Auto Sync has changed my life. I have easily squeezed an hour out of my workflow by making Auto Sync a primary tool in my arsenal. I won’t go so far as to say Auto Sync is a ‘hidden’ control,...

Sometimes the solution is so simple that it takes forever to find it. If you have been reading my recent posts you know that I have been looking for a way to illustrate the second monitor in this blog. I...

I often work with Lightroom in Full screen mode and also have either the right or left panel hidden to maximize the view of the image and one of the annoying things with the panels is that they inadvertently pop...

One of the many things that Lightroom 2.0 does to revolutionize the efficiency of your workflow is to make it much easier to keyword your images. It then goes another big step further by making it much easier to instantly...

Masking in Lightroom 2.0 Beta is reducing my trips to Photoshop, even for images where a hand-colored look is desired.

One of the wild new features of Lightroom 2 Beta that I overlooked until now is that one can go negative with the Clarity slider. You'll notice that the default position of the Clarity slider is now in the...

Because of the fact that I spend so much time working with digital assets, or maybe despite it depending on your point of view, I'm always quite curious to see how other people deal with the problems of managing large...

This is a very short article in words, but it did take some time to put together the accompanying illustrations. Basically I have been holding off on attempting a major retouching job with Lightroom until it had enough retouching tools....

Our team process a lot of photos, i mean A LOT of photos. 10 Terabytes (TB) worth of images have been know to fly through our studio on a weekly basis as we process and deliver a myriad of jobs...

When the Lightroom 2.0 beta came out, there was much mention of the improved auto-adjust setting. It seems a small thing, but when it comes to being able to deliver quick proofs of a big shoot, could turn out to...

After last weeks post on my five favorite new features in Lightroom 2 Beta, I thought I would spend a little more time on the new web sharpening feature. While this is a small upgrade for the web module -...

Sorry for being late again with this post, but it is the Songkran (Thai New Year) holiday season in Thailand. A lot of people also call this the water festival, which quite literally means that you can not step out...

During a recent panel discussion, I sat across from a room of photographers that worked in a wide cross-section of our industry. Despite the multitude of great tips and techniques we wished to bestow upon our audience, they all wanted...

On March 16th, Lightroom 1.4 was pulled from Adobe's servers because of some rather nasty bugs that slipped out into the world. This was a disappointment to many because Lightroom 1.4 contained support for lots of new cameras, including the...

Lightroom 2.0 makes it easy to open multiple images in a single file in Photoshop CS 3 (and, one of these days, in older versions and in Photoshop Elements). You can right click a selected image and the, under Open...

There are a number of great additions to the Lightroom 2 beta that some of the other Bloggers have written about. One group that has me excited are the new Print module features. Specifically, Picture Package and 16 bit output.

In last week's blog I was looking over the fence at Apple's Aperture 2.0 and noted that it might give us a glimpse of things to come with Lightroom - and well, it did. The good news is that Lightroom...

Well they said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a non-destructive dodge and burn in Adobe Lightroom. And it isn't your grandfather's dodge and burn either. It is essentially a paint brush tool that has the ability to generate masks over your image which can affect the Exposure, Brightness, Saturation, Clarity and Tint of the selected area.

As a self diagnosed preset addict, I have spent a great deal of time and energy gathering what I feel to be a great set of presets that my team and I use on a daily basis in our workflow(s)....

Last night at exactly midnight NY time, I was able to download the very first version of the Lightroom 2.0 beta. I did this after I'd attended Adobe's on-line meeting and listened to everything Tom Hogarty had to say about...

It seems as though history has repeated itself. Not long after Apple released the first version of Aperture (just over two years ago), Adobe released a public beta of Lightroom to tide people over. And now, not long after Apple...

It may be the end of April Fool's day, but this is no joke. Today marks the start of the public beta of Lightroom 2.0 which introduces localized corrections as well as the ability to run on multiple monitors. As...