Best Practices for Lightroom performance
It's 2020. If you are a Lightroom user, now is a great time to take some steps to reevaluate and optimize your Lightroom catalog. Here are my 2020 LR performance tips:
01 When buying a new machine, get at least 32GB RAM. 32GB is the new minimum.
02 When buying a new machine, buy a big, fast Solid State Drive (SSD). Having 30-40% of that drive open ensures both its performance and…
A quick introduction to Lightroom 6/CC
When you first install Lightroom 6/CC you may find yourself asking “Wait, how is this different from Lightroom 5?â€, which is to say it’s an easy upgrade and familiar on all counts. But as you use it you’ll notice lots of meaningful new features everywhere - some small and some big. Here are five things in LR6/CC that I find significant:
Photo Merge
The “Merge to Panorama in…
Lightroom for Pros
February 18th, 2013, 9am - 4pm in Houston Texas
with Scott Martin in conjunction with ASMP
This 1 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom. Skipping the basics, we'll focus on the nitty gritty details necessary for professionals in the field. This workshop will be held at a photography studio downtown with lunch at the…
Tips for upgrading to Lightroom 4
Every time we upgrade Lightroom we have a great chance to get a fresh start, shed bad habits, and tweak our workflow. Customizing one's process in Lightroom and reducing dependency upon Photoshop is the key to having a smart, efficient workflow that minimizes our time at the computer and maximizes time spent making images. I've been spending the last few months visiting with pros in their…
Workflow Audit with Lightroom CC Training
I've spent over 20 years traveling internationally visiting with pros in their studios, reviewing their process and getting them started on the right foot with modern workflow procedures. Choosing software, training, calibrating equipment, lighting implementation, paper choice, print presentation, image critique and setting up one's work environment are all a part of this process.
Smart…
Workshop: Precise Photography Workflow with Adobe Lightroom
February 16-18th, 2012, 10am - 4pm in Xalapa, Mexico
with Scott Martin
This 3 day workshop takes an intense look at optimizing photography workflows from capture-to-print using Adobe Lightroom. As a special treat, this workshop will be held at one of Mexico's finest printmaking studios, Izote Editions.
Day 1 - Capture and organize
Optimizing exposure for RAW development
An overview of…
Photoshop vs Lightroom and “Is it real?”
Q: "When I process a RAW file, I use the RAW image processor in Photoshop. I then save it as a TIFF file (and then to a JPEG for clients and stock agencies). Â This already seems like so many steps. Why would I want to use Lightroom?"
A: Photoshop wasn't designed to work with camera RAW files - it was designed to work with film scans. IMO, the Camera RAW plugin and Adobe Bridge represent an…
Lightroom 3 beta 2 released (updated with commentary)
LR3beta2 is out! Here are some noteworthy points:
• Speed is greatly improved.
• Importing has been improved and refined.
• Tethering for popular Nikon and Canon cameras is now supported.
• Watermarking is improved (although still not ideal).
• Luminance Noise Reduction has been added to complement the new demosaicing and color noise algorithms.
• New Vignette styles.…
Lightroom 3 second public beta to be announced today
Adobe is releasing the second public beta of Adobe Lightroom 3 today. LR3beta1 users won't be disappointed as there are a significant number of noteworthy features in the new beta that were not in the first. You will be able to download it from the Adobe Labs Lightroom 3 Beta2 page for details. I'm going to play nice and hold my tongue on the new features until it's officially released.…
12 Pro Suggestions for developing your images in Lightroom / ACR
1 ) Make adjustments in the proper order working from the top down. Set white balance first, then Exposure, etc. Don't skip around.
2 ) Ignore the midtones when adjusting Exposure and consider only the white clipping point. One must ignore the midtones as they will be adjusted via Brightness later in the workflow. If some whites are clipped at 0, option/alt drag the Exposure slider to the left…