One of the confusing topics I get a lot of questions about is metadata - what is really needed and where do I put what? The answer to that question is it depends. It depends on if you are a...

I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all...

Canon's new Rebel XSi ad is making its way around the Internet and probably out onto the TV airwaves as well. It's a really nicely crafted ad and one that will hopefully inspire budding photographers everywhere to pick up a...

Lightroom’s Print Module, believe it or not, is a great vehicle for putting together a photo collection for a quick email. All you do is make rows and columns and space them so that when you capture the screen, they’re...

Today, Adobe posted a release candidate of the Camera Raw 4.5 plug-in via the Adobe Labs website. By release candidate, Adobe means that the software is well tested, but they would like to see additional community testing before it is...

One of the great features of Lightroom is that it can work with tiff and jpeg files as well as raw files. Because of this feature, a few years ago I thought I'd try working up film scans I made...

Wedding photographers shoot a lot of photos … not just a few hundred - I’m talking thousands of photos per shoot. This has always presented some unique challenges for our studio as we process images and create galleries for clients...

I really started realizing how important it was to do keywording, titles, and captions as soon as possible, and with a plan in mind, when I started writing classes on using Lightroom’s Slideshow and Web modules. These are both incredibly...

Over the last few months, I’ve been extensively using the latest versions of both Aperture and Lightroom in gigs large and small. I’ve long been comfortable using both, but with the 2.0 versions of both, I’ve really wanted to dig...

Over the years as I have worked with film scans, then raw images captured with DSLR cameras one of the interesting things I have found to be true is that the more you "tweak" or adjust an image in Photoshop...

Lightroom does some things that are very useful in a processing routine, even if you do a lot of your processing (such as retouching, using filters, making composites, or correcting perspective) in another image editing program. First of all, you...

I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it … I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but...

This has been kind of a trying week for me, I am in the middle of moving house, so my time is very limited and I am still trying to get the telephone (and ADSL) installed at the new house....

The Saturation and its cousin the Vibrancy slider are the two main tools one would use to saturate the colors in an image. The Vibrancy slider was one of those revolutionary tools that helped make Lightroom an indispensable tool for...

Vignetting in Lightroom 2 is much more useful now that we can retouch and apply vignettes post crop

Ever since I started working with image management programs I’ve been trying to find the system by which I could consistently use a specific rating to mean specific things. I still am not so sure I’ve done that, so I...

This weeks post is going to be brief as I am TOTALLY addicted to my new toy - RPG KEYS from Riley Photographic This is one of those products that leaves us all saying “why didn’t I think of that?”...

After using modern workflow tools, like Adobe Lightroom, for the last few years, I'm finding myself approaching a crisis point with keywords. When I first started really adding keywords to image metadata years back, I took the same approach many...

As professional photographers who are always in need of a good cataloging and archival strategy - we continually strive for one setup that is scalable and would work for our needs. And I think, speaking for many, we would love...