How to Widen Your Panels On the Mac Version of Lightroom Classic
Sep18

How to Widen Your Panels On the Mac Version of Lightroom Classic

Posted By on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in Featured, Lightroom Coffee Break | 2 comments

Got a brand new video here from Adobe’s own Benjamin Warde, and it’s a Mac-only trick, but it’s a really handy one (well, I guess it is if you’re on a Mac). 🙂 Check it out: Thanks, Benjamin. Rome, here I come! On my way for my workshop. I will be sharing some behind-the-scenes stuff to my Instagram account, so if you get a chance (well, I’d probably wait until tomorrow since I’m flying all day...

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It’s ‘Pitch Your Outdated Backup Catalogs” Monday!
Sep17

It’s ‘Pitch Your Outdated Backup Catalogs” Monday!

Posted By on Monday, September 17, 2018 in Catalog, Featured | 1 comment

Happy Monday, everybody! Just a quickie today, but it’s kinda important — especially if you’re working on a laptop or a desktop computer where you’re constantly running out of free space. You see that dialog above — the one that appears when you quit Lightroom, asking you if you want to make a backup copy of your catalog? Each time you see it, it asks you to make a COPY of your entire catalog. Each time you hit that ‘Back up’ it makes...

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Photoshop Tip For Retaining Your Original Color When Adding Effects
Sep14

Photoshop Tip For Retaining Your Original Color When Adding Effects

Posted By on Friday, September 14, 2018 in Featured, Photoshop | 7 comments

Hi, folks – got a Photoshop tutorial for you today — it’s really easy (and the last step is really the trick), but it’s a handy one for those situations where you want to apply an effect to your image, but when you’re done applying the effect either desaturated or changed the color in your photo enough that you lost the original color. Well, this will bring it back in a hurry.  STEP ONE: Here’s the original image — I brought it...

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Underutilized Yet Still Awesome Lightroom Feature: Quick Collections
Sep11

Underutilized Yet Still Awesome Lightroom Feature: Quick Collections

Posted By on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 in Featured, Library, Lightroom Classic | 1 comment

This is one of those lesser used, but incredibly helpful features and Adobe’s own Benjamin Warde is here with a 60-second tip on using Quick Collections: Thanks, Benjamin. I’m out here in Vegas, baby! I’m doing a site inspection/planning visit to the Mirage Resort & Casino, home of our West Coast Photoshop World Conference in 2019. Put it on your calendar now for next August out in Vegas. 🙂 Have a good one,...

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What To Do If Your Lightroom Images Go Missing
Sep10

What To Do If Your Lightroom Images Go Missing

Posted By on Monday, September 10, 2018 in Featured, Library, Lightroom Classic | 3 comments

Hi, gang. I’m back from a week in Hawaii — there for Canon’s launch of their new EOS R Full-frame mirrorless camera, and open returning, I got this email question from a reader here on the blog: I have 11574 Missing Photographs in Lightroom Classic CC. What is the best way to let LR know where they are. They are on an external hard drive and came from another external hard drive. Well, here ya go: In the Folders panel,...

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