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 was sad to learn that George Jardine is leaving Adobe, but I am very grateful for what he has left behind. I’ve been hooked on George Jardine’s Lightroom Podcasts from the start. I know I’ve mentioned them everywhere. His 53 podcasts span the arc… Read More »Thanks to George Jardine
While there are a growing number of Lightroom blogs and podcasts offering excellent free video tutorials (which is great!), but you may be one of those people who just want to go through a soup-to-nuts video course on using Lightroom, well there are three sources… Read More »Lightroom Video Training
I don’t know how I’d get by without the Internet. There is such a wealth of information on any subject just waiting to be found. Lightroom is no exception. Like anything on the Internet sometimes it is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff,… Read More »Lightroom Blogs
My “Under the Loupe” tutorial on using an export action to create a custom watermark for the web galleries is finally out in Photoshop User magazine (Sept 07, pg 84). Here’s the nutshell version: Create watermark action in Photoshop Turn action into a droplet and… Read More »Lightroom Custom Watermark Tutorial