Photoshoot and Beyond
Category: Outdoors Photographer: Amy Brooks “Weekend wave action in SW Washington” Photographer of the Day, Amy Brooks, did a wonderful job of capturing the feeling of a stormy day on the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Freezing the motion of the crashing wave shows the power of the sea as well as creates a wonderful parallel to…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’d like to welcome a new POTD curator for nature – Rob Sylvan. Category: Nature Photographer: Don Komarechka “Snowflake-a-Day #28” Photographer of the Day, Don Komarechka, has developed an incredible talent and workflow for capturing those amazing bits of natural wonder called snowflakes. For me, living in New Hampshire, and looking out my window on a snowy January…
Lightroom has three different print layout styles and each is designed for a different type of use case. However it isn’t always clear to all users which layout style will best suit their needs for a given project. In the top right corner of the Print module you will find the Layout Style panel, and…
More and more I hear from people who want to be able to use a single Lightroom catalog of the same photos on more than one computer (not surprising in 2016). While there isn’t a perfect solution (that I am aware of), there are some techniques worth investigating. Now, before I go further I have…
One of the main reasons we use Lightroom is that it makes our entire digital workflow so much more efficient than using a combination of other tools. A key to getting the most out of Lightroom is to gain mastery over all of the various types of templates that you can employ at different points…
Cropping is one of those fundamental tasks that everyone should know and is fairly intuitive, but I still get questions about it. I want to give you the essential skills to make your crop workflow as efficient and effective as possible. One of the most frequent questions I see in this regard is how to quickly…
The Library module is really the hub of your Lightroom experience as file management tasks, such as making selects, deleting rejects, batch processing, applying keywords, organizing into collections, renaming, applying metadata, and so on, take up a lot of our workflow. The Library module has four (not counting People, which is for another day) different views—Grid,…
As you develop your Lightroom workflow there are few things that will make you more efficient than incorporating more keyboard shortcuts. I wanted to share a few of my favorite tips for speeding up the process of separating the wheat from the chaff. Clear the Screen The first part of the tip is about maximizing […]
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