In this section you will find a wide range of tutorials for Lightroom
One of the most engaging effect to achieve in Lightroom is the Selective Colouring effect. This consist in having a Black&White scene with only a coloured element, being the protagonist of the whole scene. Even though there are many approaches about how to get this result in Photoshop, the possibility of getting this done in …
When working with a large bulk of photos, the organization is everything. Lightroom offers us a quite comfortable system for sorting our imported pictures, located in the Library Module. Under this guide, I will give you the essential tools you need for organizing your photos in Lightroom in an efficient way. First start by deciding the …
Knowing our way through Lightroom means to save a considerable amount of time into doing the post production process. As we all know, keyboard shortcuts are part of this process, but without proper knowledge on how to develop your images in a faster way rather than exploring through categories and trying to remember where certain …
Working with RAW files makes this tool one of the most useful things Lightroom has, even though it goes deeply underappreciated by new users. Lens Correction allows us to compensate for the lens common issues: chromatic aberrations, distortion and vignetting. Even though modern lenses used nowadays are designed to prevent those things to happen, distortion …
Taking panoramas is a classic in the photography world, but how to create them is a different scenery. Nowadays smartphones are capable of creating panoramic shots given the improvements made to both software and sensor, resulting in more than acceptable quality panoramas; however, for the professional work, they don’t apply. It won’t be near the …
Backlit photos are one common issue while taking pictures. Either you wanted to shoot a sunset and then you realized the buildings surrounding the area are too dark or you shot people facing you, but you were as well facing the sun. Shooting against the sun can be challenging and also one of the most …
One common problem that may arise when shooting pics is the possibility of ending up with underexposed pictures. Either you were at a moment you had short time to take the shot, so you couldn’t adjust exposure values, or you are brand new to using DSLR cameras. Fortunately, Lightroom offers us a solution for those …
For an efficient workflow within every app made by Adobe, knowing its keyboard shortcuts for every tool is a way of saving perhaps 20-30 mins while working in a 3 hr job. Why? Because you don’t waste time trying to locate at the toolbar “where is that tool that I used once for that job?”. …
Now that Creative Cloud became its own phenomenon, you may consider if it is worth it to update from Lightroom 5 to Lightroom CC. So let’s face some facts that may help between this two versions. Mobile devices The whole idea of the Creative Cloud is being able to work on multiple devices at the …
Presets are one of Lightroom’s most amazing features! A preset is a saved setting that can be used over and over again. They can be created and used in every module of Lightroom and in many other ways too. Creating Export Presets has saved me tons of time when preparing images for social media. To …
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Working with RAW files is one of the richest experiences for every photographer as it resembles the old photographic processing way. Lightroom is a star software for working with RAW files and getting the most out of them, so let’s put our hands on learning how to process a RAW file. RAW vs JPEG The …
At the time of reviewing the job you made while shooting your photographs you may say: “okay, it’s good, do I need to postproduce them?”. The answer is yes. Postproduction actually helps us to fix mistakes done during the shooting process. But which adjustments are actually needed? Let’s take a look at the key points of …
When starting the post processing in Lightroom you may notice elements that perhaps at shooting you didn’t avert. Examples of them are: Dust Unknown elements present at the scenery They are also known as blemishes, although the term applies more to portrait photography into skin retouch. On the other hand, the adjustment brush provides a …
When we talk about Photography, White Balance is one of the key elements we must know for things to work smoothly. Nowadays, most cameras, even compact ones, let us change the White Balance settings. Basically, they will have the following modes: Auto – Where the camera sensor guesses the illumination condition Tungsten – Remember the …
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Taking photos is a nice and challenging hobby. And if you want your photos to look better, then use Lightroom to enhance light and color of your photos. Lightroom can take your photos that look ordinary will become recognizable and outstanding. In this article, I will show you how to make light and color enhancements. …
Is there something called perfect exposure? The straight answer is NO, but if the exposure is beyond what a camera sensor can record can be called as overexposed or underexposed. That being said a typical correct exposure could be checked by the help of Histogram, a digital photographer’s gift. If you would like to know …
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As we all know, Adobe loves the software-plugin interface. In fact, if you start counting how many plugins are available to use with Photoshop, you may be surprised. Well, in a similar way, Lightroom has that same thing to offer. Even though the Plugins are much fewer if we compare it with Photoshop, nowadays some …
Working with presets is an essential element if you want to ace Lightroom. But when time comes you may ask yourself: “How do I import this new presets I acquired?” or even better “How do I export presets I created?”. Well, now it’s time to learn how to do it. The Basics of Working with …
I’ve been using Lightroom since the first version and have loved the additions Adobe has made to the program over the years. Each time an upgrade hits the market I parse through the hype to find if shelling out more money will bring me big gains in my photo processing workflow. Let’s take a look …
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Lightroom presets are a great way to make a sequence of changes to a photo or a whole batch of photos with a click of a button. Sure enough, presets can save you heaps of time and enhance your images, but how exactly do you install them? This step by step list will show you …
As many of you may consider this as an essential part of your workflow in Lightroom, then it’s time to teach how to actually add a watermark to your pictures. But if you are rather new to this fascinating world of digital photography you may ask yourself: “is it really important to add a watermark to …
In this article we will see how to create different types of preset in Adobe Lightroom. So, what is a Lightroom preset anyway? A set of instructions or a instruction stored as a separate file – so that, at a later point, all the instructions can be applied in one single click. The no. of …
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Lightroom is a complex as well as a smart software that has made many of the digital photographer’s life much easier than before. There are many articles in the internet that explains about many of the features in Lightroom. In this article we will see how to use Lightroom workspaces effectively to be more …
