First, the only change from Lightroom 1 to Lightroom 2 in regards to the crop tool is its new home. It moved from the Develop module’s Toolbar to the new Toolstrip under the Histogram. You can still jump to the Crop Tool from anywhere in… Read More »Tutorial: Advanced Cropping
While there is a Vignette panel in Lightroom 1 it was intended to be a correction tool for fixing the slightly dark edges around a photo that can result from using certain combinations of filters and lenses. It worked OK for that purpose, but many… Read More »Tutorial: Working with the Vignette Panel
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
The Graduated Filter is one of my favorite new features of Lightroom 2, and it has considerably reduced my need to send photos to Photoshop for additional local adjustments. It is worth noting that like any software adjustment, you can only work on data that… Read More »Tutorial: Making Adjustments with the Graduated Filter Tool
The types of tasks performed in the Library module generally fall under file management, such as separating the keepers from the clunkers, applying keywords, organizing into collections, renaming, applying metadata, etc., and each of these views are designed to help make those tasks a little… Read More »Tutorial: The Many Views of the Library Module
This update provides a few bug fixes as well as support for new cameras from Nikon, Olympus and Panasonic. Read all the details at Lightroom Journal.
I had the opportunity to write a guest blog post as a sort of follow up to my Layers Magazine article. Head on over to x-equals.com to read my post about watermarking in Lightroom with LR2Mogrify.
A nice feature of Lightroom 2’s Export dialog is the ability to automatically add exported copies into the Lightroom catalog. Among other uses, I find it to be a very handy way to add a custom watermark using theLR2Mogrify export plugin to copies of photos… Read More »How I Watermark Photos with Lightroom 2
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.