Adobe Lightroom Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

The funny thing about photography is that many of us really only take photos of a few genres, for lack of a better word. What I’m trying to say is that while we think we’re out there everyday, snapping photos of anything and everything, in reality, we’re either people, animal, nature, landscape or portrait people. […]

If you’re interested in adding keywords to photos, please take a look at my previous Lightroom post. I discussed a few good topics surrounding this idea. I actually even talked about one method of how to filter photos by keyword there as well. In this post though, I’d like to go a bit further. Not […]

I’ve already talked a bit about keywords in both Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Bridge. Basically, the “keyword” feature allows users to identify their images by way of characters. If you apply a keyword to an image, you’ll ultimately have the ability to filter though all of your images to locate just the one with that […]

In Adobe Lightroom, collection sets stem from virtually the same idea as folders and sub-folders in your computer operating system do. For example, let’s say that you store all of your photo collections in different folders on your desktop. You’ve got 30 folders, all with different names for different shoots. I think we can all […]

To begin this post, I think it would be helpful to define what both “Targeted” and “Smart” collections are. I’ll be discussing how these types of collections can greatly assist you, organization-wise, while working in Adobe Lightroom, so let’s get some of this housekeeping out of the way. Targeted Collection: When marking a collection as […]

If you’ve ever written on a WordPress blog and have taken advantage of “Tags,” you sort of already know how collections work in Adobe Lightroom. The same is true if you’ve used “Hashtags” in social media. Both of these examples use pretty much the same concept. Both of these ideas transcend categories and random posts […]

Let’s face it, importing, navigating through and rating photographs isn’t all that much fun if we can’t really do anything with them. We can organize our content until the cows come home, but if we don’t filter (search) and act upon previous decisions, Lightroom is fairly useless. Luckily for us, Lightroom has got some great […]

Rating photographs is one of Lightroom’s core features. It gives photographers control over how they feel about each photo they’ve taken during a shoot and it allows for more freedom while filtering and narrowing down collections. Overall, rating and filtering is a huge time saver and, when given the opportunity, should be taken advantage of. […]

While this post will primarily cover how to go about moving and renaming folders and files inside of Adobe Lightroom, I’ll sprinkle some warnings and advice throughout as well. File structures are funny things and when you start changing your mind about where items are located on hard drives, Lightroom can have a tough time […]

If you take tons of photos like I do, you’ve surely dabbled with a few methods for choosing between your best shots. Sometimes it’s a challenge – flipping back and forth among photos that have few distinguishable attributes. In my case, after a while, I oftentimes just pick one, not knowing the real reason why […]