Category: Lightroom

ISO for Beginners (7 Days to Mastering Manual Mode)

[ad_1] 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 …

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Add Border and Share – Lightroom Killer Tips

[ad_1] 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 …

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

[ad_1] 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 …

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Getting Started With Lightroom Classic Ep05 Histogram – Lightroom Blog

[ad_1] 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. …

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Editing with the Clean & Colorful Preset Collection

[ad_1] 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 …

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5 Great Reasons To Start Using Lightroom Mobile

[ad_1] 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 …

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

[ad_1] 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 …

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Getting Started With Lightroom Classic Ep03 Renaming – Lightroom Blog

[ad_1] 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. …

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

[ad_1] 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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Why Lightroom ‘cloud’ Doesn’t Have Printing

[ad_1] Last week during The Wildlife Photography Conference I did a session on “How to print your wildlife photos” and it, of course, centered on Lightroom Classic being your printing tool. Its print module is one of the best parts of Classic, and ever since it was introduced I totally stopped printing from within Photoshop …

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What’s New in Lightroom Classic 9.3 – June 2020 – Local Hue and More

[ad_1] In the last major update to Lightroom Classic, the method for setting new Develop default settings for images was changed – it’s now specified in Preferences, and defaults can be defined by presets. In this Lightroom Classic 9.3 update, the following has been added or changed: There is a new set of Defaults presets …

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