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 [...]

 June, 2009 Adobe Lightroom Tip: Expanding and Collapsing all Subitems

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 [...]

 July, 2009 Adventures in Color Calibration

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 [...]

 May, 2009 Basic Keywroding Concepts

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.

 July, 2010 Behind Blowing Rocks HDR

Like almost anything, there are dozens of ways to go about getting the “perfect” fireworks photograph. For example, some photographers will shoot in bulb and use a black card to cover the lens until the burst they want to capture. I’ve tried, and quite honestly without a lot of familiarity with the presentation I don’t [...]

 December, 2011 Compositing Firework Photos

Whoever said storage is cheap, never had to buy and manage that storage. I’ve been meaning to write in some depth about the challenges of storing digital photos for quite some time, unfortunately, this article isn’t it. However, with rising camera resolutions, and the respective increase in image file sizes, finding room to store, backup [...]

 March, 2012 First Thoughts on Lossy DNG

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, [...]

 August, 2010 Fixing Frozen Wacom Tablets in Windows

Photoshop since CS4 has had focus stacking built in? Who knew? Apparently, not me, that’s for sure. That’s not to say that I didn’t know about focus stacking. I’ve played with the product Helicon Focus, and while I didn’t ultimately find it worth the money based on my needs, it does have some nifty features. [...]

 May, 2011 Focus Stacking in Photoshop and Lightroom

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 [...]

 May, 2009 Importing Keywords from a File

When in crop mode (shortcut key R) you can quickly use the Straighten tool by holding the CTRL key (Command on a Mac).

 July, 2010 Leveling the Horizon
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