Category: QUICKTIPS

Have a great Friday everyone. This tip will show you how to add your logo in Lightroom, with a transparent backround (the cool part). You can then use it as a Watermark or an Identity Plate, or even for the title of the slideshow. This is how you do it: STEP 1: Photoshop has to be re-opened. Use the […]

It’s all about Lightroom this weekend. I hope you enjoy these quick tips. They’re all short and sweet and I hope that you will learn something useful. Here ya go: Here’s why you might be getting gaps in your paint job. Lightroom Double Spotlight Trick Here’s how to get the Tilt-Shift effect. I hope that you found […]

Our friend, the great Terry White, has created a great video in which he not only shares 10 Lightroom Tools you didn’t know about, but also some amazing little-known Photoshop Tools! This is a great video to start the week. Below you can see what we mean. We’ve assembled one of the best teams of instructors ever. This is […]

I just returned from a workshop in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Details on my blog with BTS pictures — I was not the instructor, but a student). We used “Focus Stacking”, which is a technique to increase the depth of field. This allowed us to focus on the object directly in front of our eyes, […]

This is a question I receive often. People write or email me to tell me that their filters are missing. They were there previously, but they now can’t locate them. Here’s a video that shows how to retrieve two types of Lightroom filters.

We’ll start off this week with some quick tips to get more Lightroom on screen. (That will make more sense later) Above Here’s the standing view of Lightroom Classic. Let’s look at some different ways of maximising our workspace. You’ll see that the title bar at the top of Lightroom is hidden when you press Shift F. This […]

This is a quick and easy way to change the default text in the upper left corner of the Lightroom Classic window. You can replace it with your own text or logo. STEP 1: If you are using a Mac computer, go to the Lightroom Classic menu (as shown above) and select ‘Identity Plate Setup …’. […]

The year is fast coming to an end and I want to share some of my favorite Lightroom Classic and Lightroom tips to help you finish the year on a positive note or to start off next year on a great foot. Why not do both? Feel free to add any additional tips in the comments. Configure […]

Locate your catalog (LrC). After knowing where you have stored your photos, you will need to know the location of the Lightroom Classic Catalog file. It is stored by default in a Lightroom folder within your Pictures folder. The default preference is to load the most recent catalog. This means that if ever you opened another catalog […]

You can see how I convert a color photo to black and black in a quick tutorial. This is a short tutorial. It’s still short. Photos from the Twin Cities Before the pandemic, I spent a day in Minneapolis with my friend Jay, where we shot some classic interior architecture. I have to admit, I was quite […]