Step #1 - Start the job - Develop the Raw file in Lightroom In order to write about a portrait processing session, you first need a good portrait photo, so I asked my friend and colleague Julia Kuzmenko (www.juliakuzmenko.com) to send me one of her excellent portraits and gladly, she agreed. This photo was taken in very warm lighting conditions, so I decided to cool it. 

CEO and Co-Founder of PSKiss.com Tal Ninio shares some insight on DNG Camera Profiles and how to use Cross Camera and Creative profiles to bring out the most in your images.

Lightroom's Slideshow Module is a basic, but functional slideshow creator. In this video I show how to use the module. You'll see that it's easy to add image specific data, and create custom layouts. It's not the only option though, and so in this video I've also covered created making a slideshow in Animoto, via the Lightroom plugin. Finally I talk about creating Timelapse movies in the Slideshow Module via free templates and presets.

Each version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has brought with it improvements in the Print Module. This tip focuses on a way to display the resolution of any photo in any of Lightroom's three Layout Styles (an image's width x height at a specific ppi).

Because Lightroom is a database, rather than a browser, photos must be ingested via the Import Dialog. Part of this process includes creating previews that allow Lightroom to display a file quickly, rather than going back to the original file every time to render it. Looking at the anatomy of the average Lightroom Catalog Folder (Catalog is the name of the Lightroom database file), We can see there are a number of files visible.

This is the first in a series of articles dedicated to creating simple yet flattering and exciting lighting arrangements for shooting beauty. These techniques can be used for everything from portraits to fashion photographs.

This month our in house Lightroom Guru Sean McCormack shares his tips for creating compelling Black and White Images in Adobe Lightroom.

Our resident Lightroom expert Sean McCormack shares some quick tips on his workflow when making Lightroom Selections. Follow along with Sean in this 8 min video tutorial and he'll have you up and running in Lightroom in no time. Click Read More for the video.

So, you finished reading ‘HDR Best Practices Guide - Part I: In The Field’, and went out for a shoot.  You had all of your wits and your gear about you when you set up your tripod and fired off those lovely brackets.  You’ve got the raw materials (fine, pun partially intended) and now it’s time to refine them into something truly beautiful.

One of the most common questions that I get asked by readers is how does While Balance and Color Profiling play into my HDR work flow.  I think it is an extremely valid question to ask and it is critical that you address in your own work flows.  Unfortunately, I don't think that many people consider this when shooting brackets.

Lightroom centers around an image database. Way back the database files used to be called ‘Libraries’ but, as often happens with new programs, they’ve changed and are now refered to as Catalogs. While operating inside Lightroom, the catalog is essentially invisible, because it seems to be everything you’re dealing with. That’s not quite true, so let’s look at the catalog from the ouside.

Brian Matiash Ok. It has been said. So, what do we do now? Well, I figure that if you’re going to obsess about doing something, at least obsess about doing it the best that you can. And that is what my hope is with this post – to share the knowledge that I’ve picked up after over the years shooting brackets for HDR imaging