Importing Lightroom Presets

I know most new Lightroom users love the Presets that come installed with Lightroom. Adobe ships LIghtroom with 18 different Presets that are a collection of some basic editing Presets like Black and White, Sepia and are actually quite useful. But for those of you who want to have some unique Lightroom Presets [...]

Editing your photos in Lightroom 3

For anyone getting started in lightroom 3 here is a really great video tutorial that Julieanne Kost put together. She covers a lot of basics on making global and local color and tonal corrections to your images and also the new noise reduction abilities of Lightroom 3 which is a pretty amazing tool compared [...]

Photoshop cheatsheets

As photographers we have now taken a lot of the job that a lab tech used to have. We now do all of our own post production and spend countless hours in Photoshop, Lightroom and other software editing and color correcting images. I know that for every wedding we shoot here in [...]

Tonal and Color Corrections in Lightroom

One of the most common things that I do in Lightroom is Tonal and Color Corrections. For me Lightroom is all about quickly doing some small adjustments to give my images just a little more pop and most of the time I am only doing some pretty basic adjustments in the Develop module to [...]

Filtering and finding your images in Lightroom

Today we are bringing you another Lightroom tutorial from NAPP. When you start to use Lightroom a lot and have thousands of images (or if you shoot weddings like me, hundreds of thousands) being able to quickly find a certain shot can be such a huge timesaver. Watch how to use the filter [...]

Rating and Reviewing your images in Lightroom

Rating your images can be so helpful to be able to quickly find things later on. I always find myself wanting to find some favorite images from my prior years work and having everything tagged in Lightroom can be a quick way to be able to find your best work. Check out this video [...]

Free Lightroom brush presets

As a follow up to yesterdays post on how to install Lightroom brush presets here are a few more free presets to download.
The Darken Brush Presets will give you a few different brushes of various strength to darken a selected part of your image.
The Other Brush Presets includes the following presets:
- Brighten Eyes
- [...]

Installing Lightroom preset brushes

We covered using Lightroom brushes yesterday and how quick and easy they are to retouch your images. With Lightroom Adobe gives you 12 different brush presets to use but you can add your own but you might want to make your own presets or import presets that you get from someone else. Importing [...]

Using brushes in Lightroom

One of the most powerful parts of Lightroom is the brushes tool. With brushes you can edit a specific part of the image without effecting the entire image. This helps to save time for adjustments like burning and dodging and other tasks that you used to have to open Photoshop up for. [...]

How to create Lightroom Presets

Lightroom presets can be used to help speed up your workflow. For those of you who aren’t familiar with presets this article will give you an overview of what they are and how to create them. A preset in Lightroom is basically just a pre-created list of actions to apply to an image. [...]

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