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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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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 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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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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Now change colors within a local area in your image with the new Hue slider, available in the brush, linear gradient and radial gradient: Paint a local area with the brush or one of the local filters. Then drag from the circular handle on the Hue slider to shift all colors within the area you’ve …

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How to Create a Panorama in Lightroom As photographers, we delight in finding and photographing landscapes all around us.  Unfortunately, sometimes the full beauty of an expansive landscape can’t be captured by and won’t fit within a single image. A great way to capture the full landscape you can see with your eyes is by …

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If you have some free time – maybe because you’re stuck at home during the virus outbreak – consider working on keywording photos. Keywording your photos with terms you want to be able to search for them by will allow you to find those photos almost instantly. As an aside, remember, Lightroom Classic users have …

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Photographing Your Own Kids I believe photographing your own children is mostly about telling a story. We want to remember today. We always want to remember the feelings and beauty of our time together. And we want to have treasured memories of those closest to us for years to come! When all is said and …

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I never knew I needed a centered crop overlay, but the other day it was the perfect crop overlay for the job at hand. While walking around the downtown of nearby Portsmouth, NH, I noticed the drawbridge going up and a very large ship about to pass underneath. Since traffic was stopped (obviously) I walked …

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Issue 62 of Lightroom Magazine is now available for KelbyOne members on the KelbyOne site and on the KelbyOne Mags app for iOS and Android. In this issue, we cover all the new and updated features in the June 2020 release for the Lightroom ecosystem, including a deep dive into the updated Tone Curve panel; we explore the just-announced Nik …

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For those of you who prefer written instructions rather than watching a video, here’s an article from a few years ago explaining how to create and apply a copyright metadata preset. Exporting Copyright and Contact Information: If you want your copyright and contact information to tag along with your photos when you export copies, then …

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