Lightroom Develop Tools Explained

So I keep promising – to you and to myself – to sort out a series of Lightroom tutorials on here. However real life keeps interrupting and as this isn’t my full time job the project keeps getting pushed back. I can only apologise and say thank god for others more committed who I [...]

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DNG Discussion Continues…

I’ve discussed it. Many other sites have discussed it. Today it’s Matt Kloskowski’s turn. He’s just posted an article over on his blog – Lightroom Killer Tips – about whether or not use DNG.
Like many of the other articles (and me!) he recommends converting to DNG and listed a selection of the concerns and comments [...]

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Keyword Sets

As you may know I use Lightroom quite a bit and the keyword lists I created for Lightroom are one of the most popular things on this site. However its not always easy working your way through the hierarchies of keywords to add them to your images. Even typing the start of a keyword and [...]

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10 Things for New Lightroom Users

Scott Kelby has just put up a great post on 10 things he would tell newbie Lightroom users. I’ve listed the ten points below, but would suggest you follow the link to check out the details and further information he provides on each.

Use Solo Mode To Tame All Those Panels
Use Collections instead of Folders
Store all [...]

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Overview of Lightroom Plugins

Things have been a little quite around here as I’ve been working on a new portfolio site (more on that in the future). Something else I’ve been thinking about doing is a series of articles on using Lightroom, so if there’s anything in particular you’d like me to cover let me know!
So in a similar [...]

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New Lightroom Keywords – Weather

I’ve added a new keyword list to my collection of keywords for Lightroom. This time it focuses on terms used to describe weather and associated atmospheric conditions – rain, cloud types, fog/haze, storms, etc.
I’m not 100% happy with the list at the moment but thought I’d post it anyway. So if you’ve any suggestions for [...]

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How to speed up Lightroom

Lightroom is a great way to manage all your images and speed up your workflow but sometimes, especially if you have a very large catalog, things can slow down.
Its already been widely reported (CNET, Scott Kelby) that if you have a large number of exports to do, then breaking them into chunks that run at [...]

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More Lightroom Help

So did you find my link to the Flickr Lightroom Group and the associated list of resources useful?
If so, here’s some more!
The LightroomLab has a post detailing some more official (and not so official – i.e. Twitter) places where you can find help. This includes:

The official Adobe help site
Forums
Twitter resources
Blogs and other LR specific sites

Check [...]

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Keywords and Tagging in Lightroom

The keyword lists that I created and which are available for free are one of the most popular things on my entire site. Its easy to very quickly end up with a Lightroom catalog with a large number of images in it. If you don’t have a methodical and structured approach to managing these you’re [...]

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Lightroom Flickr Group

Well I’m off on my travels again. This time heading to the very north of India to hopefully experience the Phyang Festival in Leh. So whilst I’m gone it might be a little quieter than normal here however I’ve arranged for a variety of posts on Lightroom to be published whilst I’m out and about.
So [...]

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