Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas From Lightroom Fanatic

From the Lightroom Fanatic family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!


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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Finding Virtual Copies In A Library Haystack Using Filters

Finding Virtual Copies In A Library Haystack Using Filters: Virtual copies are a powerful feature inside of Adobe Lightroom. In this tutorial, I ll show you how to find your VC using the Library Filters.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Why And How To Clear Your Lightroom Cache

Why And How To Clear Your Lightroom Cache: Like many applications, Lightroom uses cache to make things run faster. Occasionally, something goes wrong with the management of the cache and it becomes necessary to clear or purge it. This post will explain the different types of cache, why you might want to purge it, and how to do it.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Change An Image’s Capture Time In Adobe Lightroom

Change An Image’s Capture Time In Adobe Lightroom: I’m in the process of adding a batch of scanned images to my Lightroom catalog. I’m doing a longer post about that entire process that you can read next week, but I wanted to lead in to that post with one that focuses on modifying the capture time of an image in Lightroom

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Customizing The Crop Guide Overlays To Cycle in Lightroom

Customizing The Crop Guide Overlays To Cycle in Lightroom: While using the Crop tool, Lightroom provides a number of overlay options that you can cycle through by using the shortcut O. However, there might be overlays that you will never use that you would rather not include in the rotation. Fortunately, Lightroom provides a way to customize which ones get cycled, and this tutorial will show you how!

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Understanding The Different Crop Guide Overlays in Lightroom

Understanding The Different Crop Guide Overlays in Lightroom: Whether it’s to ensure you properly crop for different aspect ratios or to check your image against the various rules of composition, the Crop tool guide overlays help you optimally crop and compose your images.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

What Is Not Included In Lightroom XMP Files

What Is Not Included In Lightroom XMP Files: Sometimes knowing what is NOT in Lightroom XMP sidecar files can help make a decision whether you can rely on them to migrate images between catalogs.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Using A Graphics Tablet With Adobe Lightroom 5

Using A Graphics Tablet With Adobe Lightroom 5: When I set up my new office, I pulled out the old graphics tablet that sat unused in a box for a few years. I have a drawing project that I want to work on, and the pen and tablet will make it easier than using a mouse or trackpad. I also figured that since it was out, I might as well experiment and see what else I could do with it, and eventually

Monday, September 9, 2013

Lightroom vs Aperture – Which One Is Right For You?

Lightroom vs Aperture – Which One Is Right For You?: Probably the most common question that gets asked about Adobe Lightroom is how it compares to Apple Aperture and “Which one should I choose?”

Friday, September 6, 2013

Fix That Pesky Windows Error Exporting Images From Lightroom

Fix That Pesky Windows Error Exporting Images From Lightroom: You’ve processed your images to perfection and it’s time to export them to share them with the world! You select your images, click on Export, and watch as your art is written to digital bits and bytes on your hard drive. As your export completes, you prepare yourself to inspect your creations and then…error!

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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It's August 20, 2013 at 10:17AM

Exporting PNG From Adobe Lightroom 5 with Magic Export

Exporting PNG From Adobe Lightroom 5 with Magic Export: I do some iOS development on the side and like to use PNG images, but hated having to convert from JPG. Using the Magic Export plug-in, I m able to export to PNG without having to open up Photoshop.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Adobe Lightroom Workflow Infographic

I put together this quick infographic to visualize my Lightroom workflow. It covers the high-level edit flow for images from camera through Lightroom to export and beyond.


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Adobe Lightroom Workflow Infographic

Adobe Lightroom Workflow Infographic: I put together this quick infographic to visualize my Lightroom workflow. It covers the high-level edit flow for images from camera through Lightroom to export and beyond.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

HDR with Photomatix Pro and Adobe Lightroom with Coupon Code!

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

How To Add A Plug-In To Adobe Lightroom 5

How To Add A Plug-In To Adobe Lightroom 5: Plug-ins are a great way to extend the capabilities of Adobe Lightroom. This tutorial will show you how to install them.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Coupon code for Photomatix Pro HDR Software

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Going Circular With The Lightroom Radial Filter

Going Circular With The Lightroom Radial Filter: Whether to blur a background or highlight a subject, radial filters have always been a key component to my creative workflow. With radial filters now in Lightroom, there is one less reason to need to switch to another tool to achieve my vision.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Find Out Where Your Adjustment Brush Has Been With Mask Over

Find Out Where Your Adjustment Brush Has Been With Mask Over: Especially when an adjustment is faint or hard to see, the mask overlay will help you see what areas of an image are affected by an adjustment, ensuring that your local adjustments stay local and are applied exactly where you want them. Now, there will be no more secrets between you and your adjustment brush.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Lightroom Fanatic - Hey, Where The Adjustment Pins At?

Lightroom Fanatic - Hey, Where The Adjustment Pins At?: The adjustment brush pins provide the access point for tweaking or deleting localized changes made with the adjustment brush tool in Lightroom. Hopefully, now you can find them!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

High Dynamic Range or High Dynamic Awesomeness? Lightroom an

High Dynamic Range or High Dynamic Awesomeness? Lightroom an: Lightroom and Photomatix make it easy to process your HDR files in to a beautiful, tone mapped image. With the Photomatix plugin for Lightroom, the integration is seamless! Try it out, and share your images with the Lightroom Fanatic community on Twitter by using the hashtag

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

A Way Out Of The Rabbit Hole With Lightroom Snapshots

A Way Out Of The Rabbit Hole With Lightroom Snapshots: Lightroom is so powerful that it’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole, getting lost in the endless creative possibilities. Because Lightroom maintains your history of changes, it’s possible to climb that ladder back up, but if you have made a lot of edits, it can be difficult to find the last good point before a series of experimental failures.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Time Travel With Adobe Lightroom History

Time Travel With Adobe Lightroom History: A seemingly simple but powerful feature of Lightroom is the History panel. The History panel lists all the changes you have made to an image inside of Lightroom. With Lightroom 5, this also includes edits that you made to smart previews on a different computer.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The New Lightroom 5 Workflow – Smart Previews and DropBox

The New Lightroom 5 Workflow – Smart Previews and DropBox: With the release of Adobe Lightroom 5, I’m rethinking my workflow to take advantage of the disconnected editing that is possible with Smart Previews.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Tethering with Adobe Lightroom 5

Tethering with Adobe Lightroom 5: One of the popular posts I did for Lightroom 4 described how to set up Lightroom to shoot tethered from your camera. I wanted to do a quick update to that post to show how tethering works in Lightroom 5.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Dodging The Storm (Creative) Cloud

Dodging The Storm (Creative) Cloud: The backlash caused by Adobe’s announcement that it was moving its Creative Suite to the cloud has been intense. Twitter was abuzz with people ready to jump ship. Online petitions have been created claiming that Adobe is “robbing small business, freelancers, and the average consumer.” Adobe and its champions, such as Scott Kelby, have tried t

Friday, May 10, 2013

Solving Lightroom’s “There is a problem with the video f

Solving Lightroom’s “There is a problem with the video f: Lightroom would display the message “There is a problem with the video file” with a list of all my video files that it was unable to import.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Exporting Lightroom Presets and Templates

Exporting Lightroom Presets and Templates: There are a few different ways to move your presets and templates across computers. Which strategy you use depends on how you use Lightroom and how many presets and templates you have.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

Navigating the Lightroom Import Dialog

Navigating the Lightroom Import Dialog: With your Lightroom Preferences set and Metadata Preset ready to go, it’s time to import some images. In this post, we’ll cover importing images from your camera or memory card.


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Getting Ready For Action – Adobe Lightroom Preferences

Getting Ready For Action – Adobe Lightroom Preferences: Getting Lightroom ready for use by customizing your preferences and presets.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Installing the Adobe Lightroom 5 Beta

Installing the Adobe Lightroom 5 Beta: Tutorial on installing the Adobe Lightroom 5 Beta

Creating A Custom Identity Plate For Adobe Lightroom

Creating A Custom Identity Plate For Adobe Lightroom: Personalize your Adobe Lightroom environment with a Custom Identity Plate