Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

Create a Trypitch in Lightroom

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Sean McCormack has a short movie showing how to create a Tryptich from 1 photo using Lightroom

Lightroom 2.1

Friday, October 24th, 2008

You may note that the splash screen on Lightroom 2.1 mentions Camera Raw 4.6 as being the compatible version. This is slightly confusing as the latest version of Camera Raw is 5.1. However they are considered equivalent, so if you have Lightroom you are running Camera Raw 5.1!

This confusion was caused because Lightroom 2.0 was released before Photoshop CS4.

Organizing Your Catalog

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Eric Scouten, one of the Lightroom Development team has written about how he organises his Lightroom Catalog, with some sensible advice.

A better IR Preset

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

The new Negative Clarity feature in Lightroom 2 has been trumpeted for its ability to soften skin in portrait retouching, but it can also be used to create a better Infra Red look than version 1.x.

So here are a couple of Dreamy IR Presets, one greyscale and one split-toned.

As usual, with all presets, treat it as a starting point for experimentation

Windows + nVidia? Possible speedups

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There seem to be some potential speedups for Windows users with nVidia graphics cards. Spotted by Flickr user MarkW Photo, via Sean McCormack at Lightroom News.

Anatomy of Web Gallery Part 2

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

The second part of Sean McCormack’s look at the new Web Gallery in Lightroom 2.0

Tethered Shooting

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Following up from my link to the Tethered Shooting Plug-in, here is an article showing how to do tethered shooting by Pixsylated.

Anatomy of a Lightroom Gallery

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Sean McCormack writes about creating Lightroom Galleries with the new Lightroom SDK.

Working with Lightroom and Photoshop

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Martin Evening has an article on using Photoshop with Lightroom

Geocode Workflow Presets

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Geoencode Presets. Two presets to help you find which images have been geoencoded and which haven’t. Place them in the Filter Presets folder.