Let’s say you’ve had Lightroom and Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 working happily side by side on your Windows machine, and you decide to upgrade to CS5. Now Lightroom sees CS5 as the primary external editor and you proceed happily on your way.
Also known as trashing the prefs, this is the act of forcing Lightroom to create a clean preference file in the hopes that it fixes whatever strange Lightroom problem you might be having.
Hello from Pre-con day here at Photoshop World! Just wanted to pass along a quick tip to anyone on their way here from another time zone. Set your camera’s clock to Vegas time http://bit.ly/OcHHq or fix it in Lightroom later http://bit.ly/3ujmb
I was recently asked if it were possible to assign photos to a collection during import. It would make a good feature request, but it is not currently possible. Here are the alternatives I came up with that could be used once the import is… Read More »Using Lightroom 2’s Target Collection
There is an aspect of the Lightroom crop tool that is not as intuitive as it could be (based on how often the question gets asked), and that is how to change the orientation of the crop rectangle.
There’s a handy feature in the Filmstrip that gives you access to a wide range of info about your photos no matter where you are in Lightroom. First you need to enable Show Image Info Tooltips in the Filmstrip. Just right-click (Ctrl-click) a photo in… Read More »Lightroom’s Image Info Tooltips
Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your photos are going in and then out of Lightroom,… Read More »Tutorial: Understanding the Lightroom Export Process
Even if you only shoot raw the reality is that we all still have a lot of rendered files on our systems too. What are rendered files? These are the photos rendered in pixels as opposed to the raw capture data produced by our cameras.… Read More »Tutorial: Rendered vs. Raw in Lightroom
Lightroom is often referred to as a “metadata editor,” meaning that the work you do in Lightroom isn’t applied to the pixels in the source photo, but rather is saved as a set of metadata instructions (inside the catalog file) that are only applied to copies of the source photo during any type of output. Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file.