Lightroom web galleries.
Creating a web gallery or website can be quite time consuming and difficult, especially if you want to make it look professional. I’ve recently updated my site, www.jessebrownphotography.com, using Lightroom. I’ve been using Lightroom to create my web galleries for a while now and I’ve never been displeased with the results. It’s very easy to [...]
Lightroom Plugins for HDR photography
Lightroom makes it easy to store, edit and process your images from one central location. With a few plugins, it is the perfect hub for your HDR workflow. I use Photomatix Pro for my HDR processing, but I’m sure that other HDR software works in a similar fashion.
Lightroom’s Camera Calibration Panel
There is a question that a lot of people ask when they decide to start shooting RAW… “why do my jpegs look so much better than my RAW files?” And a related question, “why do my photos look so much better on my camera’s LCD than they do on my computer screen?” The answer is [...]
Lightroom bits and pieces
I wanted to do a post to address the Lightroom info that people are searching for lately. There are a few questions that seem to come up regularly. Here are a few of those questions, and some things I’ve helped my friends with lately. This is a simple thing, but it had a friend of [...]
My Lightroom Workflow- Sorting and Smart Collections
I had planned to write this post today BEFORE I read Scott Kelby’s post this morning about collections in Lightroom. It was interesting to read his post because we pretty much end up at the same place, but we take a different route to get there…
My Lightroom Workflow- file management ideas
When I started posting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials a few weeks ago I started with the adjustment brush. It occurred to me that the adjust brush is a weird place to START a series about Lightroom, so I decided to go back to the beginning and talk about my workflow. For me, the most important [...]
Lightroom Adjustment Brush tips part-3. Color
I’m going to start this week with a quick tip that I just learned. Say you’re working with a brush to lighten part of your image, and you have painted over a section with your density at 100. Now say you decide that you would rather not have that section quite so light, but the [...]
Lightroom Adjustment Brush tips part-2. easy re-touch
I wanted to begin this post with a word about the “flow” and “density” sliders inside the Adjustment Brush panel. These are very important for controlling how your adjustments are applied, but they are fairly simple to figure out. Think of the density slider as the maximum that the effect can be applied.
Lightroom Adjustment Brush tips part-1. Creative vignetting
I have been experimenting with Lightroom’s adjustment brush lately, and I have come up with some great uses for this versatile tool. This first tip can be applied to many different kinds of images, and can save you a trip to Photoshop and back…
