LightroomNews How to Make Your Portraits POP with Lightroom The other day I wrote this Lightroom tutorial on my blog . I thought I'd share it here and see if anyone finds it helpful. I'm using a quick photo I took as an example for importing photos into Lightroom. So I didn't get the exposure right and I didn't find the best direction for the light. When editing a photo, there are a sequence of steps that I follow. In order of execution, there are four key things to adjust: White Balance Highlights (White Point) Shadows (Black Point) Mid Tones Before you do anything else, it is important to set these properly. Here's our original photo: First up: let's set the White Balance. Second thing we'll do is dial in the highlights. I'll bring down the Exposure slider slightly just until I don't see any clipped highlights. To adjust your shadows, or black point, you do the same thing but with the Black slider. Finally, I'm going to lighten the mid-tones slightly by increasing the Brightness slider. OK.
8 Tips For Becoming the Perfect Second Shooter | Lightroom Presets: Pretty Presets Before I photographed a wedding on my own, I worked as a second shooter for a couple of different photographers, just to get a feel for what wedding photography entails. The second-shooter experiences really helped me learn the ropes, and now, I am completely comfortable being the primary photographer for weddings. My husband is also a photographer, so when I shoot a wedding, he is my second shooter, and when he photographs musicians (his specialty) I second shoot for him. If you have been hired for a second shooter job, here are a few tips to make things run smoothly, whether you are photographing a wedding or a different type of special occasion: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Lightroom Journal Today we’re proud to release updates to the entire Lightroom CC ecosystem, including for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the web, as well as updates to Lightroom Classic CC and Adobe Camera Raw. We’ve added support for new cameras and lenses, and added some great new features. Please note that we are moving to a new blog home. Check it out here New Auto Settings, powered by Adobe Sensei Auto has been completely reworked to create better results, every time. The December update includes other great features across the ecosystem: Lightroom CC on Desktop Tone Curve The Tone Curve is one of the most popular tools used by photographers for advanced control over the tonality, contrast, and color balance of an image. Split Toning Split Toning allows you to stylize your photo through color tints in the highlights and shadows of your image. Change Capture Time Full Screen View View your photos in full screen by using either the F key or by navigating to View-> Detail Full Screen. Android iOS Thanks!
Lightroom Secrets | All Things Adobe Lightroom! Photography School adorama.com Adorama Photography TV presents the Canon EOS-6D. Rich is back from Vegas and eager to share his experience with this great new Digital SLR from Canon. Join Rich as he takes you through a more in-depth review of all the functions of this reliable and cost efficient camera. The Canon EOS-6D falls between the Canon EOS-5D Mark III and the Canon EOS-7D in price and features. This is perfect for the photographer who likes a high quality, easy-to-use camera that has high ISO performance, fast auto-focus and great image quality. AdoramaTV features talented hosts including: Mark Wallace, Gavin Hoey, Joe McNally, Joe DiMaggio, Tamara Lackey, Bryan Peterson, and Rich Harrington. Related Products Canon EOS-6D Digital SLR: First Look: Adorama Photography TV youtu.be/g3U5Vp5-o9o Featured items from this episodeadr.ma/review024a AdoramaTV related episodesadr.ma/review024b Learn More from the Adorama Learning Centeradr.ma/review024c Canon EOS-6D Digital SLR Camera Bodyadorama.com/ICA6D.html?
Learn More Nik Photography Cover Photo Selection – April 9, 2014Field of Vision © +Mark Seawell This week's cover photo belongs to +Mark Seawell. Mark is retired from the U.S Air Force. He lives and works in Germany at the Ramstein Air Force base. Mark is a fine art photographer, who specializes in landscape and architecture photography. “Field of Vision” was taken in the hills above Haschbach, Germany on a moody morning in February. Be sure to circle +Mark Seawell on Google+ to see more of his work. If you would like to be considered, please follow these guidelines:- Post an image on your G+ page- Dimensions 2120 x 1192 pixel image (horizontal)- Mention the Nik product/s that you used - Add #nikcoverphoto in your description- Image should not be watermarked If you are selected, we will contact you for the image so that we can post it as a Cover Photo on our Nik Photography G+ page and give you proper credit. Thank you from the Nik Google+ Photos Team
Teaching Lightroom « Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider Blog » Photoshop & Digital Photography Techniques, Tutorials, Books, Reviews & More When I’m teaching my Light it, Shoot it, Retouch it tour, I use Lightroom quite a bit during the day, and in one city one of the attendees came up and told me they had just bought Lightroom, and wanted my recommendations on where to go to learn Lightroom. Of course, I told him that we actually do a ton of Lightroom training, and he was like, “Really? I thought you guys just taught Photoshop.” I gave him some ideas of what we do, but it really got me to thinking: If this guy at my live seminar doesn’t realize how much Lightroom training we actually offer, I wonder how many other people don’t realize all the Lightroom training we have available. (1) Our Lightroom magazine within a magazine! (2) We produce the free “Lightroom Killer Tips,” podcast hosted by Matt Kloskowski. (3) The Lightroom Killer Tips Blog. (4) The Lightroom 3 Tour Live! (5) I’ve written the #1 bestselling book on the topic, “The Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers.” (7) We teach Lightroom on D-Town TV. Whew!!!
50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment Are you a designer on a deadline? If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image? Reevaluate that color palette? The truth is, however, that we designers will always be looking for more time to polish the one pixel that got away. Of course, since our go-to design tool in the office is Photoshop, we thought we’d share with you 50 simple Photoshop tricks and shortcuts we love using that can help trim excess spent time in your workflows. Important Note: The following require Photoshop CS5 and a Mac OS X. The Usual Keyboard Shortcut Suspects Memorize these shortcuts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Keyboard shortcuts for flipping foreground and background (X): Use this to switch between your current foreground and background colors located in your toolbar. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Customized Must-Have Keyboard Shortcuts 11. 12. 13. Photoshop, the Word Processor 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
Free Lightroom photo gallery plugin to showcase your photos Here are some Lightroom web templates to create web photo galleries and slideshows using Adobe Lightroom without any knowledge of Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Use these free templates to showcase your photos and images. This is web publishing for digital photographers made easy; how to create a photo gallery in seconds With Lightroom and one of these templates you can create an attractive web gallery in just a few clicks. Lightroom or Picasa? You may have noticed that I offer also a wide range of free templates for Googles Picasa. Although the galleries created with these templates are (very) similar the differences between Picasa and Lightroom are huge. Are you a serious or pro photographer? Are you a person who just loves to make pictures? Actually I use both LR and Picasa. ImageFlow Gallery where your images line up in iTunes CoverFlow style. Downloads and demo 3D Carousel Flash based template, where the images spin around, casting subtle reflections on a black background.
Julieanne Kost. Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe Lightroom tutorials. Tethered Capture with Lightroom 5 In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne walks through setting up the Tethered Capture setting in Lightroom and demonstrates how to automatically apply develop settings and presets as well as sort by descending order to view the most recently taken photograph. How to Change Capture Time in Lightroom 5 In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates two ways to change the capture time of your images. How to Optimize Lightroom 5 In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne shares several suggestions for hardware, software, and preferences to help optimize the performance of Lightroom. Lightroom 5 Backup Strategies In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne discusses backup strategies for the Lightroom catalog, incremental backup catalogs, photographs, presets, preferences, and additional supporting files. How to Use Lightroom 5 On Location What’s New in Lightroom 5 Lightroom 5 — Radial Filter Lightroom 5 — Smart Previews
25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop Photoshop allows designers with unlimited possibilities when it comes to creative effects, including lighting effects. There are plenty of different ways to create lighting effects in Photoshop, and there are equally as many different possible uses for them. If you’re interested in learning more about how to create awesome lighting effects in your own work, here are 25 tutorials that can help. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting.