Photoshoot and Beyond
After a massive outcry from frustrated users, Adobe’s Tom Hogarty announced yesterday that the next dot release of Lightroom 6 would restore the previous import experience. Lightroom 6.2 took away several features that many photographers (including me) used on a regular basis as a critical part of their workflow. Removed the Move feature during import, leaving […]
Lightroom, being the versatile software it is, has several creative effect options available for us to test. Perhaps one of the easiest effects to accomplish – and the most stunning in appearance – is the Split Toning effect, which consists of an image in which the tonal values on Highlights and Shadows are replaced by […]
Do you like Lightroom’s new import screen? That’s what I thought. It turns out that in addition to the import being over simplified for some and too complicated for others, it is the slowest (by far) from the competing photo management applications out there. How much slower? Jim Harmer of improve photography took Lightroom for a spin […]
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Wes Maggio from Wacom joins us to share a quick tip on processing a portrait of Skylar he shot in the desert in Las Vegas during Photoshop World last month. Starting in Lightroom, Wes works through the develop module, but then jumps into Photoshop for a window replacement made easy by using a Wacom pen tablet.
Join us for a free webinar to learn more about the Perfectly Clear Plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom. This amazing tool offers one-click corrections to perfection to bring out the best in your photos. Getting Started with Perfectly Clear for Photoshop and Lightroom (with Rich Harrington) This webinar will walk you through all of the […]
If you’re one of the more wide-eyed people who updated to Adobe Lightroom 6.2 right after it was launched a few days ago, you have likely come to rue that decision. Between the “Fisher Price”-ification of the Import flow to the ridiculous crashes caused due to bugs in the software, this update left much to […]
Adobe updated Lightroom last week with Lightroom CC 2015.2 and Lightroom 6.2. In the update, Adobe provided a totally revamped import screen and process. The changes, according to Adobe, we implemented to make it easier for new users to import photos into Lightroom. Unfortunately, in dumbing down the import dialog, Adobe has taken away some […]
Lightroom is generally good at maintaining itself, but sometimes you have to manually tweak a few adjustments. Here are a few quick tips to speed up Lightroom.
Editor’s Note: Please welcome David J. Crewe to the Photofocus team. He’s a professional photographer from Chicago and we’re super happy to have him here. Please post a welcome message in the comments or drop him a line. As a professional photographer in the digital age, protecting your data is one of the most important things […]
Adobe has updated Lightroom to version 6.2 for perpetual users and CC 2015.2 for Creative Cloud users. Lightroom CC 2015.2 adds Dehaze as a Local Adjustment, which allows you to use it with the Radial Filter, Graduated Filter and Local Adjustment Brush. Note that Lightroom 6.2 does not get this new feature. It is only […]