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How to Create a Vintage Look using Lightroom
Before you create a vintage look using Lightroom, you have to decide what characteristics you think that look should have. It may mean different things to other people, but here’s my version. Photos with the vintage look are nostalgic, evoking the look of faded photos taken decades ago. There may be a colour cast or […]
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Lightroom Workflow – from Setup to Finished Sunrise Photo
One of my favorite times of the day to photograph is sunrise. There’s just something about the peacefulness of being up before the sun, before most of the human world, that allows me to clear my head. Sunrise photos have always been high on the list of fan favorites and I know that there are […]
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Comparing Images with Lightroom 5’s Survey View
Andrew S. Gibson is the author of Mastering Lightroom Book One: The Library Module, on offer now at SnapnDeals for a limited time. ‘Working the subject’ is an expression often used in photography to describe the process of taking a series of photos of the same subject. The idea is to work your way closer […]
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Lightroom Tips for the Develop Module – the Magic Alt Key
Lightroom tips for the Develop module – one feature in Lightroom that isn’t obvious or easy to discover is the visualization feedback which you can get in the Develop module. In many cases when you hold the Alt key, (Option on a Mac) and click (and hold it) on a slider, the screen will change […]
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How to Upload Photos to Flickr and 500px using Lightroom 5
The main benefit of Lightroom’s Library module is that it saves you time. It is much quicker, and ultimately simpler, to organize your photos using Lightroom Collections, than it is to search through the folders on your hard drive containing those photos when you need something. The skills you’ve learned so far in this series […]
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Five Minutes to Realistic HDR using Lightroom and a 32-Bit Plugin
Easy Peazy HDR in Adobe Lightroom to make realistic HDR images! HDR photography used to be time consuming, difficult to learn, and required expensive software. Recent new technology now allows anybody, even beginners, to make perfect HDR in less than 5 minutes – while eating a bowl of ice cream. It’s that easy! Using Adobe […]
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A Concise Guide to Lightroom Develop Presets
The Presets panel (found in the left-hand panels in the Develop module) is one of the most useful in Lightroom. The most obvious benefit of Develop Presets is that they can save you time, which is always a good thing. But they do more than that, including help you maintain a consistent approach to post-processing […]
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4 Not-so-Secret Tricks to Speed up Your Lightroom Workflow
Do you want to speed up your Lightroom workflow? You’re not alone – I get countless requests from people to help them optimize their photo processing workflow. However, because it is so commonly asked, it is also frequently answered and this makes it difficult to add a fresh spin on a topic that hasn’t changed […]
