- Open Lightroom Photos as Smart Objects in Photoshop
- Jul 29, 2008
- Martin Evening wanted to merge a couple of images, while still being able to edit their Lightroom Develop settings from Photoshop. He found the solution in the Smart Objects feature as he explains here.
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- Reviewing and Organizing Images in Lightroom 2
- Jul 29, 2008
- Lightroom 2 delivers numerous tools to make finding and organizing your files intuitive and enjoyable. The Adobe Creative Team shows how you can view an impromptu slideshow, create collections, and compare images side by side, so you can make the best use of your image library as it continues to grow.
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- Using the Clarity Slider in Lightroom
- Jul 3, 2008
- The Clarity slider in Lightroom 1.1 has an enthusiastic proponent in Martin Evening. Here he shows how photos can benefit from this contrast-enhancing feature.
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- Lightroom Tips & Tricks: Drool-Worthy Features in the Lightroom 2 Beta
- Jun 24, 2008
- Chris Orwig is excited about some of the new features that will come with Lightroom version 2. This preview from the beta should get your heart pumping.
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- Adding Text to Your Print Layouts in Lightroom
- May 30, 2008
- A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a gorgeous print can be enhanced by including some text. Whether you want to print info about the photo, a romantic saying, or the name of your studio, Scott Kelby's got you covered.
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- Final Print Settings and Color Management in Photoshop Lightroom
- May 30, 2008
- Your photo is beautiful and the layout looks perfect. Printing can be as easy as point-and-click, but Lightroom has some settings that need a bit of attention if you want the best results. Scott Kelby walks us through the options.
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- Quick Metadata Preset Edits for Lightroom 1.1
- May 30, 2008
- Martin Evening likes the way that Lightroom 1.1 handles metadata presets—a great feature for storing metadata information that you apply frequently, such as copyright info, ratings, and captions.
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- Saving and Reading Metadata in Lightroom
- May 30, 2008
- Lightroom 1.1 has metadata options that clarify the whole "What happens to my changes?" issue. Martin Evening points out the relevant features and explains how to use these settings to advantage.
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- How to Edit Metadata and Target Photos in Lightroom
- May 23, 2008
- Often you'll want to edit the metadata for a bunch of images at once. But sometimes you'd like to be able to skim along through a selection and tweak the metadata for individual photos as you go. Martin Evening shows how to use a Lightroom 1.1 feature to edit metadata for individual images within a selection.
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- Printing Made Really, Really Easy in Lightroom
- May 23, 2008
- Scott Kelby is a loving man, but man, he really adores Lightroom's printing capability. By the time you're finished with this article, you'll love it, too.
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- Making Sense of Metadata Settings in Lightroom
- May 16, 2008
- Metadata catalog settings in Lightroom can be very confusing. Martin Evening helps us wades through the murk by clarifying what some of the important settings do.
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- Removing Red Eye in Lightroom
- May 16, 2008
- Is red eye the bane of your existence? Lightroom provides an easy fix to keep you from pulling your hair out over kids who look like demons in your family photos. Scott Kelby shows you how to get the red out.
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- Cropping and Straightening in Lightroom
- May 2, 2008
- A crooked horizon line or an extra person in the image can spoil an otherwise great photo. Scott Kelby shows how to straighten a picture or magically decrease the number of people in the room.
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- How To Back Up And Keep Your Lightroom Images Safe
- May 2, 2008
- Accidents happen. So do viruses. Are you prepared? Martin Evening gives a brief review of the backup options in Lightroom to help you (hopefully) prevent or at least recover from trouble.
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- Using Lightroom's HSL / Color / Grayscale Panel
- May 1, 2008
- Need to make some fine-tuned color adjustments in Lightroom? Martin Evening shows the way with tips for using the HSL / Color / Grayscale panel.
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- Jumping Between Lightroom and Photoshop
- Apr 28, 2008
- Lightroom is pretty darn slick, but sometimes you need to "Photoshop" a photo. There's a reason that Adobe has all of these great tools with different but related features: They work as a family. You can send images back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop, and Scott Kelby explains how and when to do that.
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- Seeing Before/After Versions in Lightroom
- Apr 24, 2008
- Scott Kelby explains how to make the most of Lightroom's before/after views.
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- Color Me Badd: Color Correction for Photographers
- Apr 23, 2008
- Best-selling authors Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski use their shared wit and photo-editing expertise to show you every cool trick in the book for color correcting photos in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.
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- Finding the Photos You Want in Lightroom, Fast!
- Apr 16, 2008
- With just a few steps, Scott Kelby says, you can get set up to find a picture when you're in a rush. (And isn't that most of the time these days?)
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- Using Lightroom’s Tone Curve Controls
- Apr 11, 2008
- Lightroom's Tone Curve controls provide a straightforward way to make tone curve adjustments based on descriptive criteria. They're not as restrictive as they might seem at first, as Martin Evening demonstrates.
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