One thing I come across on my tutoring sessions is confusion over catalogs. What are they, were are my photos, do I need them, how many do I need or how should I organise my photo in them. Catalogs are fundamental to Lightroom and also the most import file related to Lightroom (photos aside), but…
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you’ll see I talk about the importance of backing up your files and photos on a regular basis. Well, this is a scenario I had over the weekend… Lee, can you help, I’ve dropped my photo drive on the floor and now it doesn’t work. I’ve…
If you’ve ever wanted to improve your photos or learn how to do composites, but couldn’t afford the cost of Photoshop or didn’t want to do a monthly subscription, then Affinity Photo is for you. Affinity Photo is a low cost single price photo editing software package that offers very comparable features to Photoshop and…
An issue I’ve been encountering recently for beginners with Lightroom, is an issue with installing the software. The issue, is more of a confusion. People are getting confused which Lightroom to install and the problem arises from the name and the fact there are 2 versions that can be installed. Lightroom, is an app version…
We all have a love hate relationship with watermarks. They are necessary to show the work is yours, or to show your website address, but they can detract to the beauty of your photo. So, you can simply add your name to the photo, use a nice font and your are done. However, you may…
With the current issue with covid19, 1-2-1 tutoring is now trickier than before. However, I do offer face to face online tutoring! If you are a Mac User, this is very easy and can be offered using the built in software on your Mac. FaceTime or Screen Sharing can be used to great effect to…
My Own Scenario : New Catalogs. I started using Lightroom, many many years ago. I created my main catalog probably 9 or 10 years ago. This catalog has evolved, I’ve added Keywords to nearly all the 100,00 photos, I’ve created collections for gathering all sorts of information. Then, about 6 years ago, I started portrait…
With every release of Lightroom, there are always new features, some are subtle and take time to find others can sort of hit you full on. One of these feature that hit me full on was in the export dialogue box, a small change, but so obvious you can’t miss it. Introduced in Lightroom v9,…
Do you shoot RAW? If not, I’ll give you an example of just powerful it can be. We’ve all done it, we go out to take a great sunset, take a load of photos, come home and look at them on the computer and are instantly disappointed. I’ve done it, I took this photo and…
Ever wanted to pick a colour for use outside of Photoshop or Lightroom. You can do it in without any mucking around with screen captures. Just click and hold from the colour platte picker!
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