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Tutorial: Back Up Your Lightroom Catalog
New: Updated for Lightroom 3! Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file. Therefore, it’s crucial that you take good...
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Tutorial: Rendered vs. Raw in Lightroom
Even if you only shoot raw the reality is that we all still have a lot of rendered files on our systems too. What are rendered files? These are the photos rendered in pixels as opposed to the raw...
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Tutorial: Understanding the Lightroom Export Process
Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your...
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Lightroom’s Image Info Tooltips
There’s a handy feature in the Filmstrip that gives you access to a wide range of info about your photos no matter where you are in Lightroom. First you need to enable Show Image Info Tooltips in the...
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Changing the crop orientation in Lightroom 2
[Note: This post was written for Lightroom 2, so if you are using Lightroom 3 you can now just press the X key to achieve the same end. Thanks to Sas for the nudge to update. -Rob] There is an aspect...
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Using Lightroom 2′s Target Collection
I was recently asked if it were possible to assign photos to a collection during import. It would make a good feature request, but it is not currently possible. Here are the alternatives I came up with...
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Hello from Pre-con day here at Photoshop World! Just wanted to pass along a quick tip to anyone on their way here from another time zone. Set your camera’s clock to Vegas time http://bit.ly/OcHHq or...
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Replacing the Lightroom Preference File
Also known as trashing the prefs, this is the act of forcing Lightroom to create a clean preference file in the hopes that it fixes whatever strange Lightroom problem you might be having. The...
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FYI for Windows users upgrading to Photoshop CS5
Let’s say you’ve had Lightroom and Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 working happily side by side on your Windows machine, and you decide to upgrade to CS5. Now Lightroom sees CS5 as the primary external editor...
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Tutorial: Back Up Your Lightroom Catalog
Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file. Therefore, it’s crucial that you take good care of the catalog file and...
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Tutorial: Rendered vs. Raw in Lightroom
Even if you only shoot raw the reality is that we all still have a lot of rendered files on our systems too. What are rendered files? These are the photos rendered in pixels as opposed to the raw...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tutorial: Understanding the Lightroom Export Process
Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lightroom’s Image Info Tooltips
There’s a handy feature in the Filmstrip that gives you access to a wide range of info about your photos no matter where you are in Lightroom. First you need to enable Show Image Info Tooltips in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Changing the crop orientation in Lightroom 2
[Note: This post was written for Lightroom 2, so if you are using Lightroom 3 you can now just press the X key to achieve the same end. Thanks to Sas for the nudge to update. -Rob] There is an aspect...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using Lightroom 2’s Target Collection
I was recently asked if it were possible to assign photos to a collection during import. It would make a good feature request, but it is not currently possible. Here are the alternatives I came up with...
View ArticleTraveler Tip from Photoshop World
Hello from Pre-con day here at Photoshop World! Just wanted to pass along a quick tip to anyone on their way here from another time zone. Set your camera’s clock to Vegas time http://bit.ly/OcHHq or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Replacing the Lightroom Preference File
Also known as trashing the prefs, this is the act of forcing Lightroom to create a clean preference file in the hopes that it fixes whatever strange Lightroom problem you might be having. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FYI for Windows users upgrading to Photoshop CS5
Let’s say you’ve had Lightroom and Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 working happily side by side on your Windows machine, and you decide to upgrade to CS5. Now Lightroom sees CS5 as the primary external editor...
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