Lightroom Tutorials

Lightroom Presets from MCP – Change the Way You Edit!

October 17, 2011

You all know how great MCP’s actions for Elements are, right? Are you ready to have that same quality and gorgeous look in Lightroom? MCP’s Quick Clicks Collection for Lightroom is here to save you time and create gorgeous edits. Its one click convenience and intuitive organization is going to make your photo edits a [...]

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Free Lightroom Presets from MCP

October 11, 2011

Lightroom users (I know a lot of you are), this is for you! Ice Cream Shoppe and Increase Exposure 1 Stop Jodi from MCP and I have been working very hard on developing a comprehensive and user friendly set of Lightroom presets. I have to tell you, it took some convincing on my part – [...]

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New Photoshop Elements and Lightroom Online Classes

June 29, 2011

The schedule is set for summer classes – Elements and Lightroom both. Save 25% by signing up for all 3 Elements classes at once. Read more here! And you Lightroom lovers (soon-to-be Lightroom lovers, that is) can save 20% by registering for both classes. Here’s the info. I hope to see you in on or [...]

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Workflow Order – Don’t Sweat It!

May 18, 2011

Workflow order is the topic that I get asked about most often in my classes, whether it’s the Lightroom or the Elements class. People worry that there is one and only one order that post processing work should be done in, and that not knowing this order is going to ruin their photos. Put your [...]

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Amazing New Lightroom Tip

March 23, 2011

Ok, so it’s not techncially “undiscovered” material, but it’s new to me and I love it! My Lightroom catalog contains over 30,000 images. And it’s been a bit sluggish lately. For instance, when I am scrolling through a set of images in the Library, it might take a couple of seconds for the scroll to [...]

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Post Processing: Adjusting Lightroom Presets and Processing a Mom’s Emotions

February 16, 2011

How many of you use presets in Lightroom? Like Photoshop actions, Lightroom presets are shortcuts to getting the look you want, especially if you don’t know exactly how to get that look on your own. And presets, just like actions, can be fine-tuned after you apply them to an image. There is no way that [...]

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Lightroom Presets from Pretty Presets

January 26, 2011

This is one of my favorite images. Here’s what it looked like before I applied one simple Lightroom preset from Pretty Presets. Isn’t that a huge difference? I love what the different tones did to the mood of the image. The preset I used was Classy, from Pretty Preset Collection III. I added a vignette [...]

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Lightroom Tutorial: Can this image be saved? Reprise.

January 18, 2011

Lightroom can work wonders on images. Can it save an image that starts out terrible? No. Do you remember my quick edit on a pic that was awful out of camera, but that my girlfriend loved? The picture absolutely wasn’t worth saving, except that I took it on a fun night out with friends. Stu [...]

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Selective Edits without Selecting

January 7, 2010

You guys know that I hate selecting parts of my images in Photoshop. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the magnetic lasso, the Magic Selection Tool, or anything else. I just don’t like it. One of my favorite Lightroom features is the Adjustment Brush. This tool lets you “paint in” the following edits to various parts [...]

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2 Quick Lightroom Tips

September 26, 2009

Edit Multiple Photos at the Same Time in Lightroom A reader asked how to edit more than one photo at the same time in Lightroom. This capability is very handy for many things, especially when you’ve taken lots of pictures in similar lighting conditions and need to make the same white balance or exposure adjustments. [...]

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Selective Color in Lightroom, Plus Another Maternity Photo Idea

September 13, 2009

This is another pose from my maternity session a couple of weeks ago. This mom really liked the pregnancy photos that emphasized her belly rather than her face (which was beautiful!). How long would it take you to selectively color a black and white image in Photoshop? Because it would take me about 30 minutes. [...]

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Lightroom Photography Contest

July 18, 2009

I have never entered a photography contest. Have you? Popular Photography magazine is hosting a contest called Lightroom through Your Lens for photographers who use Lightroom. The grand prize winner will be published in Popular Photography magazine and will receive a trip to NYC! Woohoo! Don’t have Lightroom yet? Download a free trial here by [...]

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Rounded Vignette Tutorial for Lightroom and Photoshop

June 20, 2009

One of Digital Photography for Mom’s wonderful readers asked how I created the vignette in this photograph: This photo was edited using Lightroom only. It didn’t take Photoshop to create that edgy look, believe it or not! Here are the Lightroom settings for the vignette: Post-crop vignette Amount -100 Midpoint 19 Roundness 0 Feather [...]

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Get Lightroom. It's Amazing!

June 5, 2009

Attention Photographers: Spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens, with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. You guys know that I bought Lightroom a few months ago and that I have been learning it and really enjoying it since then. And I don’t usually promote Lightroom unless it’s on sale. But [...]

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