Adobe has been kind enough to feature my Lightroom workflow eBook Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographers Workflow on the Adobe website. It is a great honor to be included with other excellent Lightroom books by such well known authors...

One of the few things I’ve rarely heard mentioned about the advantages of the localized corrections Brush in Lightroom 2 is the fact that you can use them to “undo” portions of an image that you’ve used the Develop Modules...

While the Web module in Lightroom 1.4.1 was useful, it lacked any output sharpening which would have made the large preview images a bit snappier. Many folks didn't seem to miss this feature but as a photographer who wants to...

Much as many of us “hip gurus” have written about the importance of keywording in our workflow, some of us sometimes forget to add a keyword that might be important in the process of gathering a whole collection of all...

I have talked to several photographers that have asked if there is a way to preserve the look of their images as they appeared on the back of their camera once they are loaded into Lightroom. In the past, this...

Earlier this year, I wrote quite a bit on this blog about storage and backing up. Starting with a New Years Storage Resolution, I worked my way up to The Simplest Storage Solution. In short, I keep multiple copies of...

One of the problems with Lightroom 2 that I’ve been having to deal with may be unique to my situation because I’m currently doing all my work in Costa Rica. So even though Adobe has shipped the shrink-wrapped and “official”...

In my last post I talked about the new camera profiles available for Lightroom 2.0 and Camera Raw 4.5 (available here). Along with the new profiles, Adobe is providing a Profile Editor, making it possible to create new profiles, or...

Yet another great little shortcut trick is switching from one folder to another by right clicking on the Filmstrip. As in the image at right I wanted to move to a folder that I had worked in recently and...

Best workflow for getting rid of the useless: Make sure Lightroom is in Full Screen mode. Go to Grid mode and, in the Command Bar, drag the Thumbnails slider until you get only about 6 thumbs filling the screen. Slowly...

When applying localized corrections in Lightroom 2, it can be sometimes difficult to see the bounds of the mask you are working with. This is especially true if you are using a very subtle correction, such as just a bit...

For a number of years I have been looking for a complete Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool. A DAM tool is a piece of software that helps download, rename, backup, rate, group, catalog, filter, archive and keep track of all...

One of the new features in Lightroom 2.0 that will probably go unnoticed by many users is a major change to the way camera calibration can be used. With 2.0 (and Camera Raw 4.5), Adobe is introducing a new DNG...