Category: Lightroom

Is Lightroom Compatible with MacOS Big Sur and Apple M1 Processors

Apple this week released its new Big Sur operating system. (Read about it from CNN here.) In advance of this the Adobe Lightroom team worked to make Lightroom Classic 10.0, cloud-based Lightroom 4.0 and Photoshop 22.0 compatible with Big Sur. Lightroom Classic Compatibility with MacOS Big Sur As of Nov. 13, 2020 there are no …

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This Camera Raw Feature Will Change Everything in Lightroom – Lightroom Blog

The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC My latest book for Rocky Nook, looking at Lightroom CC/6 including all the new features. Available in both print and ebook forms. Penny H: A well written and very comprehensive guide that I thoroughly recommend. Stefan47: Even an experienced user will learn a few tips from this book. Piet …

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ISO for Beginners (7 Days to Mastering Manual Mode)

ISO: Understanding Sensitivity in Photography Welcome to Day 5 of Mastering Manual Mode! Yesterday we talked about how shutter speed works.  Today, we will focus on the last of the three essential elements of the exposure triangle: ISO – a very important setting to understand and use properly if you want to take the best possible photos. What is ISO in Photography? …

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Add Border and Share – Lightroom Killer Tips

So, this is a little feature that seems to have slipped in without much fanfare into Lightroom for mobile (only iOS from what I can tell at the moment) earlier this year (Lr 8.2.2). If you’ve got a photo that you want to share to social media (or anywhere really) and you don’t want to …

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What’s New in Lightroom Classic 10.0 – Color Grading, Zoom Tools and More

As a replacement for the Split Toning panel, the Color Grading panel allows one to apply a color tint to shadows, highlights, and/or midtones, as well as globally to the entire image, using industry standard three-way color controls (i.e. with hue, saturation and luminance  controls). Replicating Split Toning To completely replicate the old split toning …

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Getting Started With Lightroom Classic Ep05 Histogram – Lightroom Blog

The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC My latest book for Rocky Nook, looking at Lightroom CC/6 including all the new features. Available in both print and ebook forms. Penny H: A well written and very comprehensive guide that I thoroughly recommend. Stefan47: Even an experienced user will learn a few tips from this book. Piet …

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Editing with the Clean & Colorful Preset Collection

Editing with the Clean & Colorful Millennium Preset Collection Hello Pretty Family!  We are super excited to share with you our BRAND NEW Lightroom Preset Collection!  Just like all our other collections, this one is full of one-click enhancements that transform your photos from dull and ordinary to polished and pretty! The Clean and Colorful …

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5 Great Reasons To Start Using Lightroom Mobile

Lightroom on mobile is what the pros are using today to edit their photos taken on their phones or tablets, and if you’re not using Lightroom mobile yet, here’s five great reasons why you should: (1) You don’t have to sync it to your desktop You can just use it like any other photo editing …

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What’s New in Lightroom Classic 9.4, Lightroom 3.4, Mobile 5.4 – August 2020

If you had previously chosen to auto-update, open Lightroom Classic and go to Help>System Info to verify that you are now using 9.4. If not, or if you hadn’t chosen to auto-update, go to Help>Update, and the Creative Cloud app will open. Click on Update next to Lightroom Classic. If the update is not listed …

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Getting Started With Lightroom Classic Ep03 Renaming – Lightroom Blog

The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC My latest book for Rocky Nook, looking at Lightroom CC/6 including all the new features. Available in both print and ebook forms. Penny H: A well written and very comprehensive guide that I thoroughly recommend. Stefan47: Even an experienced user will learn a few tips from this book. Piet …

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Aperture, Depth of Field & Shutter Speed (4 Days to Sharper Photos)

Aperture, Depth of Field & Shutter Speed Day 2 of “4 Days to Sharper Photos” After reading the previous post in this series, hopefully you have spent some time learning a little more about your camera and how it focuses.  And hopefully you’ve realized that manual focus is NOT the key to sharper photos.   …

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