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Basic Post-Processing Workflow in Lightroom

Mastering Lightroom Basic Post-Processing Workflow

Most of my previous Mastering Lightroom series articles were about specific techniques and features of Adobe's popular post-processing tool for photographers. Of course, learning these techniques is very important, yet for someone who's just started using Lightroom, other questions come to mind first. Where do you start? What do you...

Lightroom vs Photoshop Elements

After my "Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements" article, many of our readers suggested a comparison between Photoshop Elements (PSE) and Lightroom would be more useful. I must admit, I found such requests to be a little strange, because I believe both of these programs to be very different. The difference lies...

Post-Processing Portraits in Lightroom

Many of our previous Mastering Lightroom series articles focused on specific Lightroom 4 features and tools, as well as ways of using them in your everyday workflow. I've explained how to use the Basic Panel and talked about the Tone Curve in great detail. We've also learned how to use...

How to Use External Editors in Lightroom

In every Mastering Lightroom series article, I mention certain strengths of this, in my opinion, superb piece of software. Only every now and then do I find something small to complain about, as I have in my "How to Manage Presets" article. I strongly believe Lightroom offers more or less...

How to Add Film Grain in Lightroom

With mainstream days of film long gone, one would expect all the disadvantages it had on offer to be rid of for all times, as well. Digital is all about clean, high quality images now. Contrary to such an assumption, however, film has not left our everyday lives without a...

How to Tether Your Camera in Lightroom

Lightroom is a very flexible image management and processing software, but apart from powerful tools and settings to enhance your photographs, it also offers features that help you during the actual process of photographing. Have you ever felt that, even with the constant resolution and physical size growth, camera LCD...

How to Use Virtual Copies in Lightroom

Mastering Lightroom: How to Use Virtual Copies

As all previous versions of Adobe's popular photography management and post-processing software, Lightroom 4 offers catalog system. Such a choice has both positives and negatives. One of the positives is non-destructive editing, which basically means the original image file remains intact no matter what you do to it within Lightroom...

How to Enhance Landscape Photos in Lightroom

Mastering Lightroom: How to Quickly Enhance Landscape Photographs

So, you've taken a photograph of a beautiful sunset or a peaceful, fog-covered valley. But something is missing in the picture - it just doesn't look as good straight out of camera as the scene you were seeing at the time. By using simple Lightroom tools, such as Clarity, Graduated...

How to Geotag Photographs in Lightroom

Lightroom has quite a few great features on offer for photographers. With the introduction of Lightroom 4, Adobe added two more modules to the already existing five - Map and Book. In this short and simple Mastering Lightroom series tutorial I will show you how to geotag your photographs in...

Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High-Resolution Images

It seems that the continuous increase of megapixels in our digital cameras is inevitable. Year after year, camera sensors are getting better, image resolution is increasing and file sizes are getting bigger. This increase of resolution and file sizes clearly puts a load on our quickly aging computers. Larger files...