Top 10 Tips on Using Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush
September 29, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
The adjustment brush is such a powerful tool in Lightroom. You can do so much with this tool like soften certain parts of an image, dodge and burn key elements of the photo, and many other local adjustments. Check out our past article on how to soften skin with the adjustment brush. There are lots [...]
Top 10 Ways To Automate Adobe Lightroom 3
September 14, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
I always stress the importance of using shortcuts and ways to save time with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. As digital artists we now spend a huge amount of hours every day working on processing our images. With many of Adobe’s products there are many tips and ways that we can save time. From using Lightroom [...]
Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom 3
September 14, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
When Lightroom 3 came out last year they added a few new features that really made the upgrade worthy like film grain and improved on the post crop vignette. If you use the normal vignette tool thats under the lens correction menu this really only works when you don’t need to crop a photo. When [...]
Creating a Custom Identity Plate For Lightroom
September 1, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Since Adobe Lightroom is one of those applications that you use for hours a day its nice to be able to customize it a bit to fit your style. One thing that you can easily do is replace the Lightroom logo that shows on the top left corner with your own logo. Setting this up [...]
Printing The Perfect Photo In Adobe Lightroom
August 25, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Printing is one thing in Lightroom that we haven’t covered much here. I have spent a lot of time in the past with articles on the Library and Develop modules in Lightroom but haven’t written much on all of the other useful features that Lightroom has once you do develop the photo. I am working [...]
The Importance Of Toning Your Images
July 28, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Before the digital revolution took over the photo world the workflow of photographers was much different. Even thought I still feel like a kid sometimes in my photo journey, and am always trying to continue learning every day I have been shooting professionally over 12 years now. Before digital cameras came along you would make [...]
How to Speed Up Lightroom Loading Times
July 14, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
How to speed up lightroom loading times in develop module. I have to admit it took me a few years to finally move over to Lightroom for my editing. Prior to Lightroom I had used Adobe Bridge and although it didn’t have all of the tools Lightroom had it was much faster. There have been [...]
Using lightroom graduated filter to create tilt shift look
June 27, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Using lightroom to create tilt shift look If you don’t quite have the budget yet for the amazing Canon TS-E 24mm lens don’t worry you can quickly get a tilt shift type effect using Lightroom in just a few minutes. First though if you need a little Tilt-Shift portrait inspiration check out this post: Great [...]
Saving XMP files in Lightroom
May 4, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Today I want to share a quick setting in Lightroom that you may not be aware of but can be a pretty important button. When you are working in Lightroom you can opt to have it automatically create a sidecar XMP file for you as you work. If you aren’t aware of what the XMP [...]
Adding Layers to Lightroom
April 25, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
One of the biggest strengths of Photoshop has always been Layers. Layers were introduced to Photoshop early on in version 3.0 back in 1994 and totally revolutionized what Photoshop can do. Being able to layer parts of images over each other gives you endless creative control over what you can create. One of the limits [...]
