Author Archive
Search and Replace’s “Workflow filters”
My plugin Search and Replace’s menu command Plugin Extras > Refresh Workflow Filters analyses the selected photos and copies the results to custom fields. These can be used in Smart Collections or added as Library Filter columns, letting you monitor your metadata as you work: The Date column is standard Lightroom, …read more
Collaborative Proofing – Lightroom CC thinking for a Lightroom Classic task?
A new feature has just gone live in Lightroom Web. Called Collaborative Proofing, and available as a Technology Preview, it is designed to share sets of photos with clients, allowing them to select the items they want.
Lightroom 8.1
Lightroom 8.1 is out. For me the best new new feature is a detail in Book – photos can now snap to a grid. This brings together the other recent changes which provided much more flexibility over book layout.
LUTs to Lightroom
A quick video tutorial on how to make LUT-based profiles to use in Lightroom.
Lightroom 8.0
Adobe have just released Lightroom 8. It’s harmless enough, more a matter of rounding up the numbers.
Lightroom and cloud storage
On a forum I answered a question about how Lightroom uses Adobe’s cloud storage, and then thought I’d cut and paste the reply here. An hour later…. With the Adobe subscription you get a certain amount of cloud storage space. Depending on what you pay, this might be terabytes and you might not care about …read more
Lightroom Web sharing grows up
I’ve always liked Lightroom Web, the browser-based way to access photos synced to Lightroom Mobile. One thing I use it for is to tweak adjustments or add captions to photos when I’m on my laptop. Nothing sophisticated, it’s all about the convenience of making quick changes wherever I happen to be, just like with LrM …read more
Lightroom 7.5
Lightroom 7.5 is out. The big changes are in the Book module with more newer Blurb book formats like trade and magazine, layflat paper, but for me the best thing is much-greater flexibility to move and resize photos around a page without the horrid “cell padding” tricks.
Lightroom 7.4 released
Not a very exciting release, the best thing is that you can hide the inane built-in presets and all the near-useless minor variations on profiles.
Lightroom 7.3 released
Look out for Lightroom 7.3 today – the official announcement is here. Profiles There’s a very big change in the profiles area. Profiles have moved from the Camera Calibration tab up into the Basic panel and they are greatly extended in scope: New Adobe looks New “creative” looks Profiles can now include LUTs. The extension …read more
Lightroom 7.2
Lightroom Classic 7.2 focusses on more performance tuning. I see a 68% improvement generating 1:1 Previews, 58% improvement generating Standard Previews, and 28% improvement in Export speed.
In the press
Adobe have “reached out” to a number of photography sites and let them try Lightroom’s upcoming 7.2
Lightroom 7.1
Lightroom 7.1 came out overnight with updates to all Lightroom apps. The new feature is a completely-rewritten Auto button – the results are so good that you should try it.
“Best photos”
What are the criteria for “best photos” in Lightroom web’s technology preview?
Re-editable Silver Efex files
Although my starting point is LR, I always launch Silver Efex this way, via Photoshop as Smart Object. The flexibility is a big advantage.
Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop
Here’s a nice little feature in Photoshop 2018. Its Welcome page now lets you directly access photos you’ve synced in Lightroom.
Embedded & Sidecar
Lightroom’s 7th incarnation – the so-called Lightroom Classic – introduces a new Embedded & Sidecar workflow which is designed to let you review, compare, and cull reject photos much faster than before.
Sign into Adobe with Google or Facebook IDs
From today people can use a Google or Facebook account to log into Adobe.
CC 2015.12 and Mobile 2.8 updates
New camera support, fixed the serious “map offline” problem in Map caused by Google changing the underlying web service. In Lightroom Mobile, a Brush tool is added, sharpening and noise reduction for iOS, and a new iPad interface which is much more elegant. There’s also a new interface for Android.
How to remove photos from “All Synced Photographs”
After removing pictures from a synced collection or after stopping a collection from syncing, the images remain on Lightroom Mobile and in “All Synced Photographs”. How do I find these photos so I can remove them from Adobe’s server?