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 except …

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 that instead …

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 expand …

Last time I talked about what makes good keywords and started talking about how to get keywords into your library software. This time we’re going to cover how to create a keyword import file to get many keywords into Lightroom quickly.
Importing a keyword file saves a significant amount of time and allows for almost all …

At some point, most photographers, even the most casual ones, will have to deal with indexing and locating specific images from the many they’ve taken over the years. Simply sorting them into folders by date or location can quickly become problematic especially when you have 10,000 images, let alone 10s of thousands. What do you …