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Lightroom Dodging and Burning Tutorial

finalThis is a simple tutorial on how you can utilize Lightroom tools to Dodge and Burn selective areas of a photograph to your liking without using Photoshop. During the process I will also go through some simple steps to show how you can enhance an image directly in Lightroom. I...

Sharing Lightroom Catalog with Multiple Computers

If you have more than one computer at your home to work on your photos with Lightroom, you might be wondering if there is a way to share your Lightroom catalog, so that you can work on the same images with the same catalog on multiple computers at once. Unfortunately,...

How to Use the Tone Curve Panel in Lightroom

Tone Curve Tool - AfterIn this short tutorial I will show you how to use one of the easiest and most powerful tools found in Lightroom - the Tone Curve. In my previous tutorial about black & white conversions, I briefly showed you how to use the HSL Panel's Luminance section to control the...

Branding and Customization in Lightroom

How Does it Look - GraphicalLightroom is an amazing program with a myriad of great features to improve the look of your photographs. In addition to all the image editing and cataloging tools, Lightroom also has some cool built-in features to make it a little more personal. In this short tutorial, I will show you...

How to Use the Basic Panel in Lightroom

White Balance Settings ComparisonLightroom has many features that can easily confuse those who are new to it. While the program offers plenty of different editing opportunities, in order to achieve the best results and user experience, it is important to understand the very basics of Lightroom. In the series of upcoming short articles,...

How to Convert Portraits to B&W with Lightroom

B&W Result: HSL desaturationIn this tutorial I will show you how to convert a portrait (shot in RAW format) to a black & white image using Lightroom 4. By the end of the tutorial, and with some practice, I hope to teach you how to have full control over the look of your...

Photoshop vs Lightroom – What You Need to Know

Adobe Camera RAWOne question that keeps coming from our readers all the time is about Lightroom vs Photoshop - many beginners do not know differences between Lightroom and Photoshop and have a hard time choosing which one to get first. In this article, I will show the main differences between these two...

How to Fix Blank Images in Lightroom

Lightroom blank imagesHave you ever had a situation when you opened Lightroom and all thumbnails and images appeared blank? After discovering that the memory on our main PC was bad, I switched over my Lightroom catalog to my laptop for temporary access to be able to retrieve images to our clients. I...

How to Properly Sharpen Images in Lightroom

Sharpening Example - BirdAdobe Photoshop Lightroom comes with powerful tools to sharpen images during post-processing. Located in the Develop module of Lightroom, the "Detail" box contains both Sharpening and Noise Reduction tools that allow Photographers to enhance their digital workflows by fine-tuning images and getting them ready to be published and printed in...

Lightroom Process Version Explained

Lightroom Process VersionEvery once in a while, Adobe releases major updates to Lightroom that might drastically change the way RAW images are converted and processed. In order to make sure that photographers can preserve their existing edits within Lightroom, Adobe came up with something called "Process Version", which basically stores the different...