Adobe have released updates to both Camera RAW and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original one that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software. Visit the Camera Raw page for a complete list of supported cameras. English: Windows | Macintosh Lightroom 3.4 … [Read more...]
The Three Most Common Ways to Over-Process Your Images
If I may briefly introduce myself, my name is William Petruzzo. I own and operate Petruzzo Photography, a Maryland wedding and portrait photography outfit. Though the business began in 2004, I have been pursuing photography for the better part of fifteen years. My own entrance into photography began with some primitive digital cameras and that is what I know best. And as such, … [Read more...]
Syncing White Balance in Adobe Lightroom
Modern digital SLR cameras come equipped with a pretty accurate ‘auto’ white balance function but it isn’t always perfect. It may perform brilliantly in external light but move in doors with a range of different light sources and things get a little less accurate. Welcome the Grey Card. The combination of shooting RAW combined with the use of an 18% Grey card offers … [Read more...]
Designing Emulation Presets for Lightroom (Download)
Hello, allow me to introduce myself briefly. I am Michael from LifeInDigitalFilm and X-Equals. I am a hybrid photographer; shooting both digital and film, and I combine both into the same Lightroom workflow. My experience with film leads me to excel at emulating the look of film in Lightroom, creating presets designed for a RAW, digital workflow. When we at X-equals release … [Read more...]
A Complete Guide to Backing up Photos in Lightroom
The hard truth is that our good old hard drives are nothing more than a stack of platters spinning very fast, with a magnetic head hovering over them to read and write data. You are probably using it all the time, day in, day out. And like all mechanical devices, one day a component will wear out, come loose or respond erratically, causing a crash - no explosion or fire but … [Read more...]