May 2008 Archives
Brandon Oelling has been extolling the virtues of AutoSync on this blog, and for good reason. It can make quick work of adjusting dozens or hundreds of images at once, especially for simple adjustments like exposure and contrast. There's one...
Continue reading Auto Sync and White Balance.
While processing another massive batch of images, I boasted with pride to my team how Auto Sync is streamlining my workflow. All the while, I flicked my Alt, Ctrl, and Command keys like Beethoven as I waxed prophetic on my...
Continue reading Lazy Man's Auto Sync.
In the Lightroom 2.0 Develop module, there are some very useful shortcut keys you can used for the Treatment panels sliders. You can rotate through the use of the different sliders by pressing . When you do, the slider you’ve...
Continue reading Making Basic Develop Adjustments Fast and Precise.
Another tidbit I found in Julieanne Kost’s recent Lightroom seminar here in Santa Fe is a method to control the multiple dialog panels in any module of Lightroom. Especially if you are working on a laptop it can sometimes...
Continue reading Controlling Dialog Panels.
More often than not, we end up with a washed out sky when we would like something really dramatic. There are of course some really complicated methods for dealing with this in Photoshop CS but in Lightroom we have been given a very simple way of dealing with the problem in just a couple of very easy steps.
Continue reading Lightroom 2 Beta - Creating a Bluer Sky with Selective Color Control.
The new Photoshop Merge features in Lightroom 2 Beta let you easily work with multiple images directly from Lightroom.
Continue reading Creating Panoramas in Lightroom 2.0 Beta.
Continuing on with my exploration of time-saving keyboard tricks, I have become a huge fan of using the {Alt} key (mac or PC) to quickly access two functions I use daily: Tone Control and Export as Catalog. During my...
Continue reading Alt-ered States.
The Print Module in Lightroom 2.0 has added one of the most time and money-saving features I’ve yet seen in an image editing package. Seldom is there a time in a portrait or product shoot when either the subject, the...
Continue reading Lightroom 2.0 Print Promise.

