Adobe Lightroom Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

When it comes to transforming a color photo into a black and white photo, Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw are virtually one and the same. As I’ve mentioned in quite a few previous posts, Camera Raw’s processing engine is built into Lightroom. This may be why the two application’s Basic panels look almost identical. So, […]

In Adobe Lightroom, there are a few tools that will help you quickly and easily adjust a photo’s exposure. Each of these tools is designed to assist with gaining as much benefit as possible, but without pushing things too far. If you increase or decrease exposure for a photo, the outcome may look good on […]

A lot of people think that when they edit photo exposure in applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Camera Raw, they’re simply adjusting the photo’s brightness. In a way, they are. But that’s not all they’re doing. Sure they’re reducing the brightness of overexposed areas and increasing the brightness of underexposed areas, but really, […]

When it comes to adjusting white balance in Adobe Lightroom, many of the sliders and controls look remarkably similar to how they look in Camera Raw. I’d even go so far as to say that if you read or watch a tutorial that covers this topic specifically for Camera Raw, you’d be pretty much set […]

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 […]