Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

Quick Tip #1) Here’s a tip I picked up from talking with Scott Kelby about the Quick Develop area in the Library module. One good way to work with Quick Develop is to use it to select a bunch of questionable photos that you’re not sure if you want to delete when you’re in the Library. Maybe they have a bad color cast or poor exposure and you’re not sure if they’re worth bringing back. Well with just a few clicks in Quick Develop you can check. Then if you think the photo warrants some further tweaking you can bring it into the full Develop module. If not, then you’ll know you can delete it.

Quick Tip #2) Ok, it’s not as much of a tip as it is an FYI… Some of you may know I’m part of a video webcast called Photoshop TV. Well, we were up in New York earlier this week and got to participate in the live announcement of the entire CS3 product line. We got interviews with some really key folks in the industry and had a great time as well. Scott posted some photos from our time there on his blog so check them out.

Quick Tip #3) Now this is not a tip in any way, shape, or form. I just wanted to keep with the whole tip theme thingee that I’m doing - sorry Anyway, next week I’ll be up at the Photoshop World conference in Boston and I’m teaching as part of the Lightroom track at the conference. Make sure you stop and check it out or just stop and say Hi if you’re going to Photoshop World. Have a great weekend.

Yeah, I know it’s a Lightroom site, but you know you use Photoshop too. If you haven’t heard yet, Adobe has officially announced CS3. Not just Photoshop but the entire creative suite as well. Plus, for the first time ever, there are now 2 versions of Photoshop - standard and extended. If you want to get a first look at the CS3 features, make sure you check out NAPP’s Photoshop CS3 Learning Center. It’s even been updated with brand new CS3 Extended videos by Corey Barker and yours truly.
Check out NAPP’s Photoshop CS3 Beta Learning Center here.

I’m not one to pass up free stuff so I thought I’d mention this one. Jack Davis (renowned Photoshop educator, author and Photoshop Hall of Famer) has worked with onOne Software to create one-click photo presets that work specifically with Lightroom. There are over 80 presets that work with the tone, color, as well as many other types of specialized conversions that you can achieve with your photos. As you can imagine, with 80 of them, the possibilities are pretty remarkable. So hat’s off to Jack and the team at onOne Software for jumping into what will be a brand new avenue for creativity with Photoshop Lightroom. Download the presets here.

This week I’m taking a look at the Red Eye removal tool in Lightroom. Why red eye you ask? Because it happens. We know it shouldn’t happen and there’s plenty of ways to help keep it from happening but for those times it does, you’re going to be happy that Lightroom does indeed have this feature. So sit back, fire up the video and see how to remove red eye from your photos in Lightroom. Click here to watch the video. (5 Mb)

I know what you’re thinking. Today is Friday and Friday is tip day. Well I have a tip. In fact, there are two today. But I’ve left it up to Scott Kelby to give them to you (they’re at the end of the video). If you remember last week I posted Dave Cross’s interview with Scott Kelby about Lightroom. Well, I said to myself, “Self, how come all of us here at Lightroom Killer Tips were left out of the interview loop?”. So I set out to find Scott and rope him in for an interview. Turns out he’s my boss so I don’t have to go looking too far to find him since he usually finds me first. That said, I did get him away from the daily to-do list for a video interview. As you watch you’ll hear references toward his new Lightroom book (which, by the way, I saw today and it looks awesome!) as well as the brand new Lightroom Live 2007 tour he’s doing. If you’re interested in either of those here are the links:
- Click here to see the video interview. (25 Mb)
- Click here to check out Scott’s Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers
- Click here to find out more info about the Lightroom Live 2007 Tour