Rob Sylvan is a photographer, educator, and aspiring beekeeper. He is the author of many Lightroom and photography related books, eBooks, and videos. Rob also answers all of the Lightroom questions on the KelbyOne Help Desk. Follow along on Instagram @sylvanworks.
Here’s a positive thing I’ve been working on this week … I’m honored to be included among these 20 talented educators (and really good people) for the upcoming Photoshop Summit! It starts April 13 and runs through the 17th. This entire event is ONLINE so… Read More »Don’t Miss the Photoshop Summit!
Lightroom Classic’s catalog is simply a database of information about our photos. Learning how to edit and add to that information can help us manage, find, and organize our photos over time. Metadata is information about your photos. Some metadata is created and applied to… Read More »The Role of Metadata
Forget everything you knew about how to create a custom default setting for your raw photos, and let’s get up to speed on the new system. Once you install the 9.2 update your old custom default settings will not work on newly imported photos or when… Read More »Customizing Camera Raw Defaults in Lightroom Classic
This post is following up from last week’s look at the cloud-based Lightroom desktop app. Today I want to explore the editing workflow to see how similar, yet different it is from Lightroom Classic. I’m also super excited to announce that the update to my Lightroom Classic… Read More »Editing with Lightroom Desktop (and a Book Giveaway!)
If you haven’t checked out the cloud-based version of Lightroom for Mac and Windows recently, it might be worth taking another look. Before going any further, you may want to read through my blog post on the May 2019 updates to Lightroom to better understand the most… Read More »Taking a Closer Look at the Cloud-based Lightroom for Desktop App
I’ve pulled together some of the recent questions (and answers) on Lightroom Classic that people have sent into me recently in the hopes that it may help others in the future. Change Size of Filmstrip The height of the Filmstrip that appears along the bottom… Read More »Lightroom Help Desk Roundup
My Lightroom hangout for Photofocus about Lightroom Mobile was yesterday and by sheer luck it coincided with the release of Lightroom 5.7. If you missed the live hangout you can catch the archive embedded below, but I also wanted to round up a few resources… Read More »Lightroom Mobile Roundup (and Lightroom 5.7 is out)
Our November Lightroom hangout is scheduled for November 19th at 1 pm Eastern (the time localizes to your time zone on the event page). Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win a Creative Cloud… Read More »Lightroom Hangout: Deep Dive into Lr Mobile
In this Photofocus blog post I share my experience with an app designed to calculate exposure time when using a neutral density filter. I love long exposure photography because it has the power to make even the most mundane scenes a bit more interesting visually. When… Read More »Photofocus: Calculating Exposure with Slower Shutter
This is an excerpt from our eBook, “Develop Great Images in Lightroom”. Download it over at iTunes and Scribd! In the Mastering Exposure and Tone chapter we looked at ways to make global tonal adjustments to your photo using the Basic and Tone Curve panels. We also discussed how… Read More »Photofocus: The Flexible HSL and Color Adjustments