Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

Happy Monday folks. I hope all the dads out there had a nice Fathers Day yesterday. I know I did. Its been about 150 degrees F here in Florida lately (well, it feels like it at least) so I spent the day in the pool with the kids. Anyway, today I prepared another Before/After video. It uses a lot of the same techniques as before and I thought about redoing it with another photo after I finished. Then I realized... but this is real. I use these same techniques all the time so why go and fish for another photo just to show you something different (and that I probably don't run into as much). I know its got a few different angles on things in it, but more importantly I think it should start showing you that the toolset we use between Photoshop and Lightroom can be very simple. Enjoy!

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I've got another before/after video for you this week. First off, you can watch the video in the player directly on the site but I also put a link to this one at the bottom of this post if you want to download a full size version of the video. I just thought this one needs to be seen a little larger. Back to the video - the response to the last before/after video was pretty overwhelming (nearly 200 comments) so I kinda picked up on the fact that you guys like before/afters. This time I picked a portrait instead of a landscape photo and I think it presents some interesting challenges of things we can/can't do in Lightroom. Of course we'll be jumping into Photoshop as well, for some filters and selections. Enjoy!

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Ask and you shall receive they say right? This week's video is going to take you through the editing process of a couple of Moab photos I posted last week. Some of you posted (in the comments) that you'd like to see where the photo started and what settings I applied to them. Personally, I love before/afters so this was really a fun one for me to do. So enjoy, leave a comment to let me know what you think, happy Friday, have a great weekend, and all that other stuff :)

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Hey there! Today's the first day of my Arches National Park photo workshop in Moab, Utah. Over the next few days I'll be up at the crack of dawn (starting at 4am today) with my class shooting some of the prettiest landscapes in the country. Then we'll hit the classroom to process the photos and go through the whole workflow. I'll try to post some photos as we go along.

OK, video time... I recorded a video on cropping before I left so I'd have it ready to go today. It's another one of those videos that came from one of the comments I received here on the site. It has to do with batch cropping or applying some sort of crop to a bunch of photos. There's actually a little more to it then I thought which is why this one turned into a video. Enjoy!

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This week I started to write my tip in a blog post and quickly realized it was going to take me a while to explain it the right way. With the wonderful world of video being so easy, I figured it would be so much easier to explain the tip if you could watch what I was doing. Hence the Friday video tip today. It deals with a little-known feature of the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2. It's pretty neat so make sure you check it out.

Have a great weekend. All my best to you if you're celebrating a holiday this time of year. I'll be celebrating Easter with my kids (and the Easter bunny of course) and we'll be eating lots of chocolate (I love those dark chocolate peanut M&Ms). Take care folks!

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