Colour Picking Outside the Program
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!
Category: Lightroom
Using Virtual Copies
If you haven’t already, you should take a look at using the Virtual Copy function in Lightroom. This function allows you to create different version on your photos, but without taking up valuable disk space. The examples here are 3 images I created for an Instagram post and only physically existed when I exported them….
Photo Overload
As time goes by we find that we have accumulated more and more digital photos, sometimes in to the thousands
Confused by Lightroom?
Lots of people are confused by Lightroom. Some people wonder where Lightroom stores its photos. Some wonder what the catalog is about, some people don’t understand why their photos look ‘normal’ outside of Lightroom, what are the exclamation marks, and why is there no save option! One simple answer to all of these questions, is…
Finding Photos
In the digital age of photography, you are no longer restricted to 24 of 36 photos to a roll of film. Flash cards now store hundreds of photos on them at a time. This means when you are out taking photos, you may comeback with several hundred photos. Over time, you end up with 1000’s…
Lightroom CC 7.2
So, Lightroom 7.2 has just been released and it contains some interesting updates. Again, it has more speed performance scaling on computers that have multiple cores and at least 12GB of RAM. This results in faster importing and preview generation, improved speed for things like adjustments rendering in Develop, HDR/Panos rendering and more. 7.2 contains…
Straightening Photos
Its great to go out and take photos, then come home and look at them on the computer. But now many times have you taken a photo, only to notice the horizon is crooked? I know I have! Fixing it these day is easy though. You can fix it in Photoshop, or my preference method…
Lightroom Mobile (Now Lightroom cc in iOS/Android)
Ok, now firstly, Lightroom Mobile, seems now to be called Lightroom CC on iOS and Android devices. However this is not to be confused with Lightroom CC on desktops which is different. Lightroom mobile allow you to Sync photos from your desktop Lightroom to a mobile device. You can then make edits to these photos…
Why Lightroom?
I was recently asked by someone, why use Lightroom over Photoshop? This is a very good question and I’m sure that are lots of answers that can be given by different people. My answer was, that they actually compliment each other. If you take 1000’s of photos then you need a way to catalogue them….
Learning Lightroom
With my photography I use Lightroom software. I use it to manage and edit all my photos and for good reason. It is an excellent piece of software. I shoot using the RAW setting on the camera and this gives me great editing power over my photos. As I am a tutor by trade, I…
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