Photography Bay Giveaway: Replichrome Presets from Totally Rad!

This week Photography Bay has teamed up with Totally Rad! to giveaway a set of all three of the Replichrome preset packs for Lightroom and Camera Raw to one lucky reader. Totally Rad! Replichrome presets consist of the Replichrome I: Icon pack (152 presets based on the most iconic, modern films ever made, such as Fuji 400H, Kodak Portra […]

VSCO Drops the Price on All Seven of Its Film Packs to Honor Its 4 Year Anniversary

It’s been exactly four years since Visual Supply Co. (VSCO) launched its very first VSCO Film® film emulation preset pack. Since then, they’ve added six more, created a collection of smartphone apps and even developed an artist grant ‘that provides artists the resources to pursue their creative vision, no matter what the medium.’ To honor […]

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Batch-Applying Presets in Lightroom

When processing photos in Lightroom’s Develop module, if you want to apply a preset you are only able to apply the preset to one file at a time. Sure, you can sync the files, but that one extra step can be a nuisance if you would like to simply use a preset. Thankfully, there is […]

Making a HDR file in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop

Let night, I got into a quick discussion last night with Tom Hogarty from Adobe about HDR. Yesterday I made a small note in Mason Marsh’s article about Lightroom using a 16-bit HDR file while Aurora, Photomatix, and Photoshop use 32-bit images. Turns out that’s not a completely fair comparison.  Lightroom uses a 16-bit floating […]

How to Fix Too Much Red on Faces Using Only Lightroom

Here’s a quick video in which I walk through a very simple technique for correcting too much red in faces using just Lightroom. I picked this tip up from Aaron Nace’s tutorial on a similar technique in Photoshop. I generally try to avoid going to Photoshop if it is something I can deal with in […]

Lightroom Hangout: Demystifying Import

You gotta join us live for our next, totally free, Google+ Lightroom Hangout! Not only will you learn terrific tips and techniques, but if you tune in live you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of […]

Creating a Lightroom Folder Structure

The first rule in creating a Lightroom catalog is to develop a folder structure that makes sense to you. Following these simple tips will ensure your Lightroom catalog will be organized and efficient.

Merging Lightroom Catalogs in 5 Easy Steps

I have two computers – a beautiful 5K iMac at my studio, and a MacBook Pro that I travel with. My schedule can get crazy, especially when I’m traveling 2-3 weeks in a given month. It’s not practical to take my entire photo library with me when I travel, so I often find myself creating a temporary catalog on my laptop and merging it with my main catalog back at the studio.