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 ...
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 ...
The Lightroom Spot Removal Tool
If you’ve ever attempted to use the Spot Removal Tool to clone out anything bigger than a piece of sensor dust, you already know Lightroom does a lousy job cloning big ...
My Approach to Lightroom
Developing the image in Lightroom is a process. A little of this, then a little of that, undo this, redo that. It’s not unlike the black and white darkroom printing I did for nearly two decades.