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How to Add an Opacity Slider to Lightroom Develop Presets with The Fader Plug-In
For me, one of the biggest advantages of Lightroom over Photoshop is the ability to use Develop Presets on your images. Here are some of the benefits: You can create several virtual copies of an image and use different Develop Presets to see how they come out. Doing so uses virtually no extra hard drive […]
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Mastering Color in Lightroom using the HSL Tab
Color in Camera Mastering color in Lightroom occurs in two steps. The first is when you take the photo. Successful color photography requires an awareness of the colors in the scene and how they work together. If you read about the topic of color composition you will come across a lot of advice, including articles […]
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Take your Photos from Blah to WOW with Lightroom and Photoshop
Would you like to get started with black and white (or color) fine art photography, but don’t really know how to get the results you want? I will give you some insight in the process to take your photos to the next level and let you see how you can make the most of the […]
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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 […]
