Create a Lightroom Copyright Preset for 2015
At last week's NYC Lightroom Meetup I did a short presentation on how to create a Lightroom copyright preset. Once this metadata (metadata is quite literally, information about other information) is ...
Radial Filter and Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
Here's a subtle, yet simple approach to gently pull your subject of interest visually forward while maintaining an "honest" result that doesn't look manipulated using the Radial Filter and Post ...
Resetting Lightroom Sliders and Switches
Working in the Lightroom 5 Develop Module can often be an involved "give and take" process of trial and error. To speed your Lightroom workflow along it's good to know ...
Using The Radial Filter For Snapshots
A little while back I wrote about the Radial Filter being backwards and the importance of having the Invert Mask check box selected before starting any work. Otherwise the effect of your slider changes ...
First NYC Lightroom Meetup Group Scheduled
On November 5th, the first NYC Lightroom Meetup Group will be held from 6-8PM at Tekserve (closed as of August 2016 and no longer in business), located at 119 West ...
Creating A Target Collection in Lightroom
Here’s a little known feature of Lightroom: The Target Collection. As explained in my earlier post, making a Quick Collection and saving it as a Collection is an effective way to ...
Lightroom Guy Is Now An Adobe Certified Expert!
Skeleton Man ©2014 D.A.Wagner After waffling for a year, I finally took the challenge to demonstrate my Lightroom skills by taking the Adobe certification exam. I studied hard ...
Clearing Up The Confusion Of The Lightroom Quick Collection (Or Not)
The Lightroom Quick Collection is a smart way to gather together a group images from any of your folders in a Catalog without changing the location of the original images. It is essential to the ...
3 Ways to Speed Up Lightroom 5 That You May Not Know
Sure, most computer users know adding RAM or a Solid State Drive (SSD) can work wonders to speed up Lightroom. However, here are three suggestions I recently gleaned from comments ...
Lightroom Layering Techniques with Radial and Gradient Filters
Before Lightroom, back in the olden days of dinosaurs and darkrooms, I would contort my hands into various shapes to manipulate the amount of projected light coming through a negative ...