Are You Backing Up Your Photos? I'm writing today to share a cautionary tale about a certain woman (who worked as a Photoshop and Lightroom instructor, as well as a photographer on the side) who failed to make sure h...

How to Use Lightroom's Targeted Adjustment Tool As with most post-processing programs, there are multiple ways to do everything.  Most of Lightroom's controls consist of sliders which are generally pretty easy to use...

How to Create a Panorama in Lightroom As photographers, we delight in finding and photographing landscapes all around us.  Unfortunately, sometimes the full beauty of an expansive landscape can't be captured by and w...

How to Edit Beautiful Instagram Photos in Lightroom Instagram is one of the most important and popular places to share and interact with images!  So, of course we all want our Instagram page to look it's very best! O...

How to Use Lightroom's New Texture Slider Lightroom is constantly upgrading and adding new features to help photographers edit quickly with beautiful results.  The brand new Texture Slider is the first slider that Li...

Match Total Exposure in Lightroom (A Trick that Will Save You Hours) I had a little incident with my camera recently.  I accidentally turned on the bracketing setting (I’m under a year with my new camera and still hi...

How to Customize & Adjust Lightroom Presets One question that I get asked quite often from Lightroom preset users is "How can I adjust a preset, when its effect is too much?" or "Is there a way to lower the opaci...

Are you curious about what DNG is?  In this tutorial, learn all about the DNG File Format - including the benefits and how you can start using it right now!

What is the Linear Gradient (Graduated Filter) Tool Are you getting the most out of the linear gradient tool in Lightroom?  What the heck is a linear gradient anyway? In this tutorial, I will explain the linear gradi...

3 Lightroom Settings You Should Change RIGHT NOW! Lightroom has lots of settings and preferences -- and sometimes its hard to know what the best option is! So, today I thought I would share with you 3 Lightroom setti...

7 Tips for Using the Radial Gradient (Filter) Tool Most of the edits that you will make in Lightroom's Develop Module in the Basic Panel and other panels will apply adjustments to the full photo.  However, a Radial G...

Understanding the Lightroom Histogram The histogram is very helpful tool used by photographers to tell whether their photo has good exposure, and whether there are any lost details (clipped highlights or shadows) in ...

How to Make Grass Greener in Lightroom The HSL Panel in Lightroom doesn't get talked about or used very often - especially the Hue section of HSL Panel.  Usually moving the sliders in the Hue Panel can create some in...

How to Use Split Toning in Lightroom You love the look of your favorite presets, but have you ever looked under the hood to see how they are created?  Lightroom is a masterful tool and its split toning panel is one o...

How to Use Snapshots & Virtual Copies in Lightroom These virtual copies and snapshots get mixed up in Lightroom all the time.  Today I will explain what each of these are when you should use each one.  You can fo...

How to Use the Lightroom Book Module The Lightroom Book Module is a super-user-friendly feature you can use to create photo books quickly in Lightroom.  After you create your photo book, you can export it to the web,...

Editing with the Dark and Moody Millennium Preset Collection Hello, PRETTIES!  We've got something new that we're so excited to share with you today! Our brand new Dark & Moody Millenium Presets have just been re...

How to Use Lightroom Snapshots Snapshots are this ingenious little feature in Lightroom (that is often overlooked and unused), which allows you to take a snapshop or "bookmark" an editing moment-in-time so you can qu...

Understanding Lightroom Brush Flow & Density The brush tool in the Masking Panel is a very powerful tool for making isolated changes to your image in Lightroom.  I use portrait adjustment brushes ALL THE TIME for...

Using Lightroom's History Panel One of the features that really endeared me to Lightroom from the very beginning was the fact that the History Panel keeps track of what edits you make to your photos FOREVER! And when...