The Folders panel may be one of the most used panels in all of Lightroom, but it may also be one of the least understood. There’s actually quite a bit of functionality in this little panel, and with the addition of the Volume Browser in… Read More »Tutorial: Managing Photos with the Folders Panel
In Lightroom 2 Adobe combined the Find and Metadata Browser panels from Lightroom 1, added some new functionality, moved them to center stage in Grid view and named it the Library Filter bar. The result is a tremendous boost in usefulness when you want to… Read More »Tutorial: Finding Photos with the Library Filter Bar
The Slideshow module was a recipient of a number of new features in Lightroom 2. The basic functionality of the Slideshow module remains the same as in Lightroom 1, however this set of new features take its usefulness up a few notches. Let’s take a… Read More »Tutorial: New Lightroom Slideshow Features and Functionality
Lightroom’s interface is primarily comprised of panels. While they can’t be separated from the interface like the panels within Photoshop there are a number of cool things you can do with them. Knowing how to configure Lightroom’s panels to fit your needs can both speed… Read More »Tutorial: Working with Lightroom 2’s Panels
I’ve been surprised to find that a good number of Lightroom users are unaware of some of the functionality built into the Lightroom interface that is designed to help you get the most from your screen real estate and enhance your ability to work with… Read More »Tutorial: Lightroom Screen Modes and Lights Out
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.
I came across an interesting alternative for sharing slideshows exported from Lightroom called slideshare. I blogged about it over at peachpit.com, but I couldn’t embed the slideshow in their blogging software, so I put it here to demo: | View | Upload your own
I’ve seen a couple of folks report this problem lately, so I thought I’d put out a general warning against performing this operation in Lightroom 1+. Here’s the scenario … You imported some JPGs. You brought them into Develop and made some adjustments. So far so good.… Read More »Don’t Try This at Home
Adobe has just released Lightroom 1.4.1. I’ve been testing it and so far so good!
Adobe temporarily removed 1.4 and recommends rolling back to 1.3.1. For more information see the explanation on Lightroom Journal.