For about as long as I’ve been using Wacom tablets, I’ve encountered a rather rare phenomena where my tablet (which I also use as my mouse) will crash and burn causing my mouse to freeze. Other than this occurring in both Lightroom (2 and now 3) and Photoshop, and with both the pen and mouse, …

I don’t shoot a lot of HDR images, nor am I a big fan of them. However, when they are done well they can add that extra dimension to an otherwise uncaptureable photograph. Here I take a look at what I did to get that in my Blowing Rocks HDR.

When I installed Lightroom 3 over my installation of Lightroom 3 Beta, I ended up with a couple of extraneous entries in my the Autoplay list in Windows 7. I don’t know why they weren’t removed considering the rest of the beta was removed, but that’s just how The following information is technical and involves …

Like CS4 and CS3 before it, Photoshop CS5 comes in two flavors extended and regular. The difference is more than a few features and a partly sum of money; $150 if you’re upgrading, $300 for a new license. What Adobe doesn’t make clear, at least I can’t find anything on it, is the difference in …

Development defaults are the way Lightroom applies baseline development settings to an image on import or reset. Defaults are the best way to apply common settings that apply to all images from a specific camera, like sharpening and noise reduction, and not for creative styling or effects. Unlike presets, development defaults change every development setting …

Photoshop Lightroom offers two mechanisms for quickly applying development settings to images, presets and defaults. In this post, part one of two, covering presets and defaults we’ll look at how to create and apply presets.

Part one of two covering the post production processing I did on my Porject popcorn poster. Including, blending images in Photoshop to address Depth of Field shortcomings and tweaking the image in Lightroom to add punch.

I just finished up helping a fellow photographer and friend setup and calibrate his new Dell 2407WFP LCD display and yet again I am reminded how much I really hate dealing with color and color profiling. What settings should you use to calibrate your display? In Michael Reichmann’s From Camera to Print, Jeff Schewe comments …

This is the third segment in my series of Photoshop Lightroom keywording tips. Last time I covered how to create keyword files that you could import into Lightroom as an easy way to build large keyword databases. This time we’ll cover the last two ways to add keywords from within Lightroom. The final two methods …

In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom there are many places where you might want to expand or collapse multiple items all at once; the Folders list, Collections list, or keywords list for example. If you hold the alt key (option on mac) and click the triangle next to the entry to expand or collapse it, it will …