Learning to See… Again.
Hi Folks: This post has been brewing for a while, but for one reason or another I’ve put it off. Yesterday R.C. Concepcion posted a beautiful poem called ‘Every Moment‘ and I thought maybe it was...
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Snapseed for Cell Phone Photography
Hi Folks: There’s a saying among photographers that the best camera is the one you have with you in the moment. To that end, both Marcia and I prize our Android-based cell phones, and Marcia...
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The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets: The Import and Library Modules
Hi Folks: If you mention the words ‘Lightroom’ and ‘preset’ in the same sentence, odds are pretty good that the person is referring to Lightroom’s ‘Develop presets’. There are a number of sites...
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The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets: The Develop Module
Hi Folks: This is part 2 of a 5-part series on Lightroom presets. The segments are: Import and Library Modules Develop Module (this post) Map and Book Modules Slideshow, Print and Web Modules Export...
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The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets: Map and Book Modules
Hi Folks: This is part 3 of a 5-part series on Lightroom presets. The segments are: Import and Library Modules Develop Module Map and Book Modules (this post) Slideshow, Print and Web Modules Export...
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The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets: Slideshow, Print and Web Modules
Hi Folks: This is part 4 of a 5-part series on Lightroom presets. The segments are: Import and Library Modules Develop Module Map and Book Modules Slideshow, Print and Web Modules (this post) Export...
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The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets: Export Module
Hi Folks: This is part 5 of a 5-part series on Lightroom presets. The segments are: Import and Library Modules Develop Module Map and Book Modules Slideshow, Print and Web Modules Export Module (this...
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Photo of the Month – February
Hi Folks: Here we are, with the first week of March come and gone already and we have yet to do a ‘Photo of the Month’ post for February! Egads!! I do have something to share with you, but it has...
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Using Lightroom’s Filter Bar
Hi Folks: Last month we did a series of posts on “The Many Faces of Lightroom Presets”, but there is one other area in Lightroom where you can create presets that we set aside because it deserves its...
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Adobe DNG Converter
Hi Folks: This was planned as a fairly short blog post (for me), but it didn’t work out that way. It describes an experiment that I thought would work, and it does. Before we get started we need to...
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Photo of the Month: Triptychs Revisited
Hi Folks: For this month’s Photo of the Month’ post I thought I’d combine a Lightroom tutorial as well. In the past we’d done blog posts on making diptychs and triptychs in Lightroom and on creating...
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Essentials of Digital Photography
Hi Folks: A little while back I was asked to give a talk to our local Photography Meetup Group on Lightroom, and so before the talk I asked people to submit questions. My thought was that I could...
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Making Sharp Images
Hi Folks: I was out with a group of people on a photo walk the other day and one of those present – relatively new to digital photography – asked me what exposure settings to use for the location...
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Batch Processing in Lightroom
Hi Folks: I wrote this out the other day in answer to a question on Twitter (thank you, Twitlonger!) and since my answer was over 3000 characters I thought I’d add it in here as well. Batch processing...
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Correcting Portrait ‘Shine’ in Lightroom
Hi Folks: I’m primarily a landscape photographer, and as such I don’t often shoot images of people. However, I’ve seen this question come up a few times and thought I’d take a minute or two to address...
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Lightroom History, Snapshots and Virtual Copies
Hi Folks: I was thinking I should subtitle this post, “Where is the Save button in Lightroom?” because I see that question pop up on social media from time to time and that’s really the basis for this...
View ArticleUploading Phone/ Tablet Images to Lightroom
Hi Folks: This post arose out of an answer I tapped out on my phone this morning in response to a question from another Twitter user. When I got to 2800 characters I thought maybe I should post it...
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Getting Images Out of Lightroom
Hi Folks: This post also started life as a response to a question asked by a friend, and when it got to a couple of thousand characters I thought I should add some images and post it here. This topic...
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Creating ‘Solarized’ Images in Lightroom
Hi Folks: Solarization or the Sabatier Effect is a technique that goes back to the 19th century. While it was likely first discovered accidentally, it came to be used for creative purpose....
View ArticleBasic File/Folder Structure in Lightroom
Hi Folks: I originally wrote this for something else, but thought I’d add it in here as well. As with many of our tutorial posts, this one’s targeted toward beginners but I thought it might be of use...
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