Selective Desaturation in RAW
Selective desaturation is a popular look in some fields of photography. Also referred to as selective color, it’s the type of photograph where one element is in color and the rest, black and white. The technique is a bit of a love-hate thing – some photographers and viewers love it, others hate it. Personally, it’s [...]
Grain Effects in Lightroom 3
Whereas digital noise is usually undesirable in photographs, film grain can give photographs a desired look, particularly with black and white images. The recently released Adobe Photothop Lightroom 3 offers a grain effects feature in the Develop module. Let’s take a look at how it works. With you image open in the Develop module, look [...]
Lightroom 3 Resources
It’s been almost two weeks since Adobe released Lightroom 3 and a number of great resources for it have already appeared, both on the web and in print. Here are a few links to get you going. First off, the books. These are all available for pre-order at the moment with expected release dates between [...]
Lightroom Develop Presets
One of the biggest advantages in working with Adobe Lightroom is the ability to use Develop Presets. These can be found on the left hand side of your screen in the Develop module. Lightroom ships with a handful of basic presets included, but you can easily make your own, or add ones that other people [...]
Lightroom Develop. Crop, Retouch Tools and Adjustment Brushes
Sandwiched between the histogram display and Basic panel are a series of useful tools. From left to right you have Crop, Spot Removal, Red Eye Correct, Graduated Filter and Adjustment Brush. In this post, I’ll take a brief look at each of these. Once Lightroom 3 is completed and fully released, I’ll take a more [...]
Lightroom Develop Tone Curve
Continuing with our look at the Develop module in Lightroom, underneath the Basic panel lives the Tone Curve panel. The tone curve shows the changes made to the tonal scale of the image, with the horizontal scale (black to the left) representing the input and the vertical scale (black to the bottom) the output. Simply [...]
Lightroom Develop Basics
Recently a reader sent me a message asking me to cover the basics of developing images in Adobe Lightroom and what each of the tools is for. I thought I’d take the time today to take a quick look at this, especially as I’m teaching a Lightroom workshop this weekend. These basic controls are the [...]
Getting Gritty in Lightroom
Down and dirty, gritty urban type imagery is pretty popular these days. A lot of examples of this can be seen in the various HDR Flickr groups, as they are often created from multiple photographs that have been run through Photomatix or some other HDR processing software. You don’t actually need multiple exposures though, nor [...]
Contact Sheets
A contact sheet is useful for a photographer to be able to deliver a selection of images to a client for review before a final decision is made on which image to go with. Having the ability to put together a collection of photos from a shoot and quickly email them to a client for [...]
Down and Dirty – Gritty Urban Photography
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Forman posted a new photoessay at his site that feature gritty, urban type post processing. Quite a few people are interested in this type of look, so I decided to create a tutorial that outlines the steps you can take to achieve a similar result.
Adobe Lightroom and Camera RAW Updates, Media Player and TV Launch
The teams at Adobe have been busy over the past few days. First up, we have the Lightroom update to 1.4.1 and Camera RAW update to 4.4.1. They are both available in the downloads section of Adobe’s site. For a complete list of what’s been changed, updated and fixed, visit Tom Hogarty’s blog. Tom is [...]
Lightroom 2.0 beta – looking at what’s new
With the release of the public beta for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, many photographers are eagerly diving in to check out the new features. So lets take a look and some of whats new. All screenshots below are from the Windows version because here in Taiwan, a Windows machine is half the price of a [...]
Lightroom 2.0 beta – looking at what’s new
With the release of the public beta for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, many photographers are eagerly diving in to check out the new features. So lets take a look and some of whats new. All screenshots below are from the Windows version because here in Taiwan, a Windows machine is half the price of a [...]
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