Check out my guest post on photofocus.com to learn how to get better skies with Lightroom’s Graduated Filter tool.

Check out my guest post on photofocus.com to learn my top tips for working in Lightroom’s Grid view.
Check out my guest post on photofocus.com about how to customize your camera raw defaults in Lightroom.
New guest post up on Photofocus.com on Two Fast Ways to Apply Develop Settings to Multiple Photos in Lightroom. Here’s the steps I use for applying the same crop to multiple photos …
My latest guest post is live on photofocus.com. Learn how to bring developed raw photos from Lightroom 2 into the Lightroom 3 beta for test driving.
Ever since writing Lightroom for Dummies I’ve had the idea to teach a class based on the most common topics people are asking about. Topics they are either not finding covered in books or seminars or are just not covered in a format that allows them to ask questions and learn while doing. To that end I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity to teach that exact course in an online format through the Perfect Picture School of Photography (PPSOP)!
One of my goals has been to develop my blog enough to get listed on Lightroom.Alltop.com alongside many of my Lightroom heroes, so it was an awesome sight on Tuesday when I spotted my own post in the Alltop widget on my blog!
Some regular maintenance and a little TLC from you will go a long way toward improving your Lightroom experience and boosting its performance. Here are five things to get you moving faster right now.
I had the highest honor ever bestowed upon me since I started blogging about Lightroom. One of my biggest Photoshop/Lightroom heroes thought one of my blog posts was good enough to use as a starting point for his own blog! One more thing I can cross off my bucket list.
Want to take your Lightroom experience to the next level? Sign up for my online Lightroomers Guide to Lightroom class. Thanks for visiting!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 …
Here’s a simple tip that may just keep you from pulling out your hair when trying to export from Lightroom 2.+ and stack the copy back with the source photo.
Lightroom is built upon a database. Inside this database, commonly referred to as the catalog, is all the data about your photos. This includes all the metadata created by the camera at the time the photo is taken (shutter speed, f-stop, ISO, etc.) as well as all the data you …
I know how exciting it is when you first get Lightroom and you can’t wait to start importing photos and putting Lightroom through its paces! If you are like most people you keep the Lightroom catalog in the default location and never look back. Time goes by and your catalog …
One of Lightroom’s greatest strengths is the database (known as the catalog file) that records everything you do when working in Lightroom. When you import photos all the information contained in the metadata gets added to the catalog, such as exposure, ISO, time and date of capture, f-stop, camera model, …