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 [...]

 October, 2009 Lightroom Development Defaults: How to Make Them Work for You

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 [...]

 July, 2009 More on Hierarchies

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 [...]

 April, 2010 Photoshop CS5 Standard/Extended Feature Comparison

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.

 September, 2009 Presets and Defaults in Lightroom

There are many rules of thumb for print resolutions and the DPI you should print at, but where do they come from? We’ll take a quick look at the science behind those rules and how to calculate the real requirements for any given situation.

 September, 2010 Printing and Resolution

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.

 September, 2009 Project Popcorn: Post Processing Part One

In Lightroom 3 you can rate, flag, or label an image and advance to the next image automatically without having the “Auto Advance” mode enabled by holding the SHIFT key when you press the shortcut for the action you want to take. For example, to reject an image you can hit X, to reject and [...]

 July, 2010 Rate and Advance to the Next Image

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 Method 1 A quick Google search for [...]

 June, 2010 Removing Lightroom 3 Beta Autoplay Handlers from Windows 7

Not every sunset is going to produce spectacular images, however, with a little care added in post production even a mediocre sunset can turn into something a little better.

 March, 2011 Salvaging a Bland Sunset
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