Tip - Unlimited Undos
Most of you use Photoshop right? That means you're probably used to the fact that Photoshop gives you 20 undos by default. So if you do more then 20 things to your photo, Photoshop drops the earlier ones and you'll eventually not be able to undo (you'd basically have to start over if you needed to get back). Now you can change that in Photoshop's Performance preferences but what about Lightroom? How does it handle undos? It's easy actually. Every single thing you do is tracked in the History panel (in the Develop module). Whether you've made 5 changes or 500 they'll all be listed there. Even better, when you close Photoshop, all of our undos go away. But when you close Lightroom they stay put. Even if you opened Lightroom to work on a photo a year later, when you come back you'll always be able to undo what you did in that History panel. Go check it out next time you work on a photo that's been in your library for a while and you'll see what I mean.
Take care everyone and have a great weekend!
Happy video day everyone! This week's video is something I've been asked about a lot lately - organizing your presets. The funny (or not-so-funny depending on how you look at it) part about it is that there's not any secret tips for organizing your presets in Lightroom. Basically, they let you create folders and you can put presets in those folders. But there are a few little things you can do to help organize your favorites and help get them to where you can find the best ones faster. 
First off, scroll down to the next post for this week's free presets. Next, I just wanted to give my sincere thanks to everyone that came out to the Covington, KY "Lightroom 2 Live" seminar last Friday. We actually had a nice surge in attendance at the end and wound up with nearly 400 people which is very cool. Even cooler though, is that I was just overwhelmed at how many people came up and said they read the blog and watch the podcasts all the time. I couldn't have asked for a better crowd for my first Lightroom seminar and things went off pretty much without a hitch (except for the fact that I didn't check the tethered cable during the tethered shoot and it had come loose ;) ). 
Here's another preset that's comes straight from the request lines (your comments). It's an old fashioned faded kinda look and it comes complete with faded edges and everything. I'm actually really happy with it as I've always liked using my 
It's Lightroom Seminar day for me and I'm gearing up for a big crowd here in Covington, KY. As I was getting ready I realized that it's funny how tips come about. For example, the one I have for you today is something that I totally knew about months ago. As you can imagine though, with all the software we use there's only so much room for tips and shortcuts. So as new things come into my head, my mind must just push the older ones to the back (that's a fancy way of saying I just forget) :) For example, I was using the Adjustment Brush the other day and thinking to myself how annoying it was to see those little pins. Especially, if I painted over some one's eye because you can imagine how bad it looks to see one of those right smack in the middle of some one's face. But I got over it pretty quick and didn't really give it much thought until I was reading through the comments, and somebody had mentioned their pins just disappeared. Another blog reader jumped in and reminded them that they must have hit the letter H to hide the pins, and to just hit H again to show them. It seems like such a small thing, but since then I've found myself constantly using H with the Adjustment Brush (and Graduated filter too) to get rid of the pins. The only catch... don't forget to hit H again or else one day, when your mind pushes newer tips to the front and older ones to the back of your mind (ie. you forget), you'll be wondering where your Adjustment Brush pins went. 
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