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How to Take a Photo from Lightroom to Photoshop. Free Photography Bundle: PS actions, LR presets, photo overlays, & print templates!

How to Take a Photo from Lightroom to Photoshop

Get it here. Lightroom and Photoshop are both excellent tools, but they each have strengths and weaknesses. Even if you typically use Lightroom to organize and process your photos it is likely that there will be times when you want or need to use Photoshop with one of your images. Fortunately, moving between the two is pretty simple once you know how it works.

In Lightroom you can edit the settings that will determine how it handles the interaction with Photoshop. 5 Practical Lightroom Tips for Newbies. One of Lightroom’s most important assets is also its Achilles Heel.

5 Practical Lightroom Tips for Newbies

It is such a powerful program that many of its useful features can take a long time to discover, and are often hidden beneath a blanket of keyboard shortcuts and obscure menus. When I first started learning Lightroom I was already a longtime user of Apple’s image processing program Aperture, and for a while after making the switch I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of options available. With so many menus, buttons, and sliders at my fingertips I thought there was no way I would ever be able to make sense of them all.

After much experimenting, online searching, and good old-fashioned trial and error, I have figured out a workflow that suits my needs; the same holds true for most photographers. DaFont - Download fonts. How to Watermark Your Images Using Lightroom and Photoshop CC. Watermarks, love them or hate them, are a way of protecting your images.

How to Watermark Your Images Using Lightroom and Photoshop CC

Although, just because you have one on your image doesn’t mean it won’t be stolen. If you are like me, I do it as a deterrent. There are many ways to watermark your images. In this article I’m going to show you how to add a watermark to your images using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CC. Lightroom (6) CC Lightroom makes watermarking your images very easy, there are a couple of ways of doing it.

Free Lightroom Preset Collection. Guide to Image Sharpening. Image sharpening is a powerful tool for emphasizing texture and drawing viewer focus.

Guide to Image Sharpening

It's also required of any digital photo at some point — whether you're aware it's been applied or not. Digital camera sensors and lenses always blur an image to some degree, for example, and this requires correction. However, not all sharpening techniques are created equal. When performed too aggressively, unsightly sharpening artifacts may appear. On the other hand, when done correctly, sharpening can often improve apparent image quality even more so than upgrading to a high-end camera lens. sharp cacti at the Huntington Gardens - Pasadena, California Most image sharpening software tools work by applying something called an "unsharp mask," which despite its name, actually acts to sharpen an image. Photo of the letter "T" Original Sharpened Soft Original. Free Lightroom Preset Collection. 30 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tips and Tutorials. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an awesome tool for photographers, professionals and amateurs alike.

30 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tips and Tutorials

One of the biggest benefits to using Lightroom is its ability to help you to organize and manage your photos effectively. If you photograph frequently, you’ll find that your hard drive quickly includes thousands of photos. 50+ Best Lightroom Presets 2015 All Free Adobe Lightroom. Today we are presenting Lightroom Presets.

50+ Best Lightroom Presets 2015 All Free Adobe Lightroom

These are great collections available absolutely for free and you can use them to edit your images quickly and successfully. As you look at each one of them, you should feel free to share with us of any other free Lightroom Presets that you find impressive using our comment section. This list contains free and paid Adobe Lightroom 4/5/6 presets (Only the first three presets in this list are premium Lightroom workflow bundles). 230 Free Lightroom Presets You Will Love. Shortcut for Keyboard shortcuts. Posted By Pete Collins on Thursday, July 23, 2015 in Featured, Lightroom Tips | 0 comments If you are like me, you love keyboard shortcuts but often forget that cool one that you only use every now and then.

Shortcut for Keyboard shortcuts

The good news is that you can press Command -/ (slash) or (PC Ctrl -/) to bring up all of the keyboard shortcuts for that module. Learn Lightroom 6 / CC - Episode 1: Quickstart. How To Get Started With Lightroom 5 - 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do. Adobe Lightroom tutorial: 6 fundamental Develop module edits for your raw files. Adobe Lightroom has quietly become one of the best photo editing software options for photographers thanks to its easy-to-use interface and extensive range of tools and controls.

Adobe Lightroom tutorial: 6 fundamental Develop module edits for your raw files

In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial we show you how to use Lightroom’s Develop module for perfect edits. Lightroom is far more than just an image organiser. Its Develop module houses a set of tonal controls that at least match, and arguably surpass Photoshop stalwarts like Levels and Curves. These tools enable you make a range of useful edits – from basic tonal tweaks to more creative effects. If you’re used to Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin you’ll find a near-identical set of controls on the right of the Develop Module’s interface. Whether you want to make basic exposure tweaks, correct lens distortion, crop in tighter or remove spots, the Develop Module is the place to begin.

Synchronizing Photographs in Lightroom CC « Julieanne Kost's Blog. Lightroom CC – Creating and Saving Presets in the Develop Module « Julieanne Kost's Blog. Master These Five Lightroom Sliders and Your Photos Will Pop. Have you ever opened up Lightroom (or any other professional level editing program) and said, “Oh my – where do I start?”

Master These Five Lightroom Sliders and Your Photos Will Pop

If so then this post is probably right up your alley. Ultimate Cheat Sheets for Photoshop and Lightroom. Want an ultimate single-page cheat sheet for looking up keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC?

Ultimate Cheat Sheets for Photoshop and Lightroom

The design team over at setupablogtoday have created just that: massive sheets that you can study and explore to your hearts content. The Photoshop Cheat Sheet First up is an impressive Photoshop cheat sheet that displays shortcuts both on a 2D keyboard and in chart form: You can find a high-resolution version of the image online here, or you can download a PDF of it through this link or via this embed: Mastering the Mysterious “Multi-Select” in Lightroom « Julieanne Kost's Blog. Here's a Trick for Adjusting Past +/- 100 in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. In this post, I’ll share a trick I use to get some adjustments “beyond” +100 or -100 in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. In the screenshot above, I like how most of the image looks — the bird and the branches are well exposed, at least. But the blue sky got blown out to almost pure white. I already moved the Highlights slider down to -100 and it’s still pretty white. I want to go past -100. So grab the graduated filter tool — the G key or the button that looks like a vertical gradient in the row of buttons along the top.

Right click on the minus icon to the left of the highlights slider. Now I apply the filter by clicking very close to the bottom right corner, and then dragging the gradient diagonally off the bottom right corner of the image. So now you should see the highlights drop a bit more than before. The sky is a realistic blue again!

You can do this same trick to stack up almost anything past 100… clarity, sharpness, shadows, noise reduction, etc. The Photographers Knowledgebase. How to copyright photos in Lightroom: protect your images in 6 easy steps. In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial we’ll show you step-by-step how to copyright photos by adding your contact details to every photo’s metadata. The Ultimate Guide to Workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop. Importing Images Into Lightroom The first step in your workflow will be getting your images from your memory card onto your computer. We prefer to use Lightroom for importing as well as file naming and structure.

We choose to have Lightroom organize everything by date and convert to DNG when importing RAW files. DNG files take up less space on your hard drive and allow cleaner long term storage. Using Photoshop and Lightroom together, free tutorial. Improve Your Images with the Lightroom Graduated Filter Tool. The Lightroom Graduated Filter is a versatile tool for making local adjustments to your photos. Don’t be fooled by the name – it may be named after a type of filter used for making skies darker in landscape photography, but its uses go far beyond that. 230 Free Lightroom Presets You Will Love. How to Easily Create Selective Color Using Lightroom. This is a guest post by: John Davenport Selective color photography has been around for ages. It’s something that has been used in the movies – Schindler’s List and Sin City come to mind – and more recently Chase Freedom and Budweiser have used it in their ad campaigns to highlight their products.

So even if you dislike selective color, or if haven’t given it much thought, you have to admit it’s a great technique to use when you’re trying to draw attention to a certain subject and is something useful to have in your tool belt. Today I’m going to show you how to create simple selective color images using only Lightroom as your processing software. What Makes a Good Selective Color Image? First we need to make sure we know what to look for when we’re out photographing our subjects because selective color photography is not something suited for every situation. 5 Things You Should Know About Lightroom Before Starting.

5 Lightroom mistakes you might make without realizing. Lightroom is a great tool for opening, processing and saving out raw files but it is not without its pitfalls for the unwary or careless. In the context of Lightroom, a lot of photographers talk about ‘workflow,’ but what exactly does this mean? It’s actually pretty simple (in theory at least), being the process of importing, editing and saving or outputting your images. It’s quite an old term but is particular relevant when shooting raw as all files need some ‘work,’ whether it’s editing, sharpening, resizing and cropping, or just saving to a more convenient format for printing or publishing online. What is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom? Post-processing is an unavoidable, inseparable part of professional photography today, be it photojournalism or fashion photography. Because of that, choosing the right software tool for post-processing your work efficiently is as important as having the right camera and lens combination for the job.

It is no surprise that demand for such flexible and powerful software is met with some serious contenders. One of such contenders comes courtesy of Adobe, a software development company best known for its powerful graphics tool Photoshop. Nowadays Photoshop is widely used by photographers (hence the term “to photoshop” applied to almost any sort of image editing), but it is not intended strictly for photographers – it has a much broader user appeal. How to use Lightroom: 8 mistakes every photographer makes (and how to fix them) Implementing a Controlled Vocabulary in Adobe Lightroom - Tuts+ Photo & Video Tutorial. Last month, Dawn Oosterhoff wrote a fantastic article about controlled vocabularies. Dawn's article got me thinking about Lightroom and the importance of building a keyword system that can scale with your collection. The essence of a controlled vocabulary is structuring your keywords in a meaningful and repeatable way.

In her article, Dawn talks specifically about the conflicts that our keyword hierarchies face as they grow. Seven Pieces of Advice for New Lightroom Users. Andrew S. Gibson is the author of Mastering Lightroom: Book 2 – The Develop Module. There’s a special deal on now at Snapndeals, get 40% off for a limited time only. A Digital Photography School poll held earlier this year revealed that the majority of readers carry out their post-processing in Lightroom.