Lightroom Killer Tips
By Kelby Media
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Podcast Description
Get your weekly dose of the coolest Adobe® Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks. New videos posted each Monday and other news over the week.
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| 1 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Upgrading Lightroom 3 Presets to Lightroom 4 | I've heard a lot of talk about what happens to presets that were created in Lightroom 3 (or LR2) and now used in Lightroom 4. I know a lot of people have presets that they absolutely loved in Lightroom 3 and they simply don't seem to look the same in Lightroom 4. So today's video goes over a few options you have if you had a preset in Lightroom 3 that you want to use in Lightroom 4. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: A Quick Make-Your-Photo-Better Setting in Lightroom | After the last few stops in my Lightroom 4 Live Tour I realize there was a lot of questions on the Camera Calibration settings that basically, let you make your photo better with just one click. So I thought I'd take a minute to, not only go over the settings but also show you a couple of ways that you can have Lightroom automatically apply those settings to your photos so that you're not left doing it manually each time. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Soft Proofing and Print Brightness in Lightroom 4 | Soft proofing has been a feature request that I've heard quite a bit over the years so you'll be happy to know it's included in Lightroom 4. This week we'll take a quick look at the Soft Proof feature, as well as one of my favorite new features for printing that solves the print is too dark problem that I (and plenty of other people I know) have. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoLightroom and Photoshop Before/After | My main goal here is to show you the Basic panel sliders in Lightroom 4 and just how powerful moving 4-5 sliders can be for your photo. In fact, you'll see that most of the work is done before we ever leave Lightroom to Photoshop. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Making Selective White Balance Changes | I always like it when new features come out in Photoshop or Lightroom and I end up using them in ways that I didn't originally think I would. Take for example the addition of Temperature and Tint to the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter in Lightroom 4 Beta. When I heard about this feature, I thought of specific examples where I'd use it. But none of those examples actually fit what I just noticed this past weekend on a recent trip. I realized I'm going to use them for a problem that I've usually gone to Photoshop to fix. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Eiffel Tower and Plug-ins | I haven't done one of those Before/After videos in a while so I thought it was time for another. The photo I'm using here was a photo I took in Paris last year. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Dynamic Watermarks | Recently, some one asked if they could add a watermark to their photos with the current year on them. So basically, Lightroom would have to figure out the year from the metadata (probably not hard) and dynamically add it to the photos when you export them into JPEGS (not so easy). So, there's really no way to do this, but there is an pretty decent workaround using the Filter Bar which is an area I think a lot of people miss out on. Enjoy! | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Using External Drives | Let's say you store all of your photos on an external drive (like I do). Eventually that drive gets full and you buy a larger drive. How do you get your photos to that new drive and make it so Lightroom can see them? Luckily it's really simple and it works the same with just about any version of Lightroom. Check out the video to see how. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Creating Calendars in the Print Module | I hope you've enjoyed the Lightroom Holiday template ideas that I've shared this week so far. Sadly, today's the last day, but I'm sure I'll be covering other ideas next year as I come up with them. I did save one of my favorites for last though - creating calendars in the Print module. It's really simple to do and looks great for the new year. You can create one calendar each month or you can create a whole year's worth so it's pretty flexible too. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: More Holiday Graphics | Continuing on with the Lightroom template/tip-a-day theme this week, today's video builds on what we did on Monday. We used the Watermark window to give our photo a frame. In that example, though, the holiday graphic was pretty much the dominant graphic in the image. This time, I've got a few ideas for you to keep the photo as the center of attention and just use smaller graphics around it. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Holiday Slideshow Ideas | In keeping with my Lightroom template/tip a day for the holidays this week, I've got a video for you on how you can incorporate some holiday graphics into your slideshows. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Holiday Print Templates | Today I've got a really cool print template idea and it works perfect for holiday (or any theme really) photos. There's a little bit of Photoshop work involved too, but if you watch the video through, you'll see that you don't really have to go through all that work. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Holiday Templates | I'm in the holiday spirit so I thought I'd do a video each day this week showcasing a way to use holiday graphics and templates inside Lightroom. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Skin Softening | One of the tips I show is using the Adjustment Brush for softening skin. People absolutely lose their minds over this one. Mainly because unless you know Lightroom really well, you'd never know there was a skin softening brush in it. Plus, people who like using Lightroom like staying in Lightroom and not going over to Photoshop. This is just one more way that helps you do that. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Installing Presets | I realized that I have various videos and tips on installing and organizing presets. Since I refer back to this video constantly whenever I release new presets, I thought it'd be a good time for an update. And since I was updating the installing video, I figured I could include the organizing part too since it goes hand-in-hand with presets. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: The Clarity Super Edgy Trick | I wanted to do a quick video today, though, to show you why I create several versions of each one. As you'll see in the video, presets in Lightroom offer a great added benefit of live previews without even applying the preset itself. It's something we don't get if we were to create presets, say, in Adobe Camera Raw or even any of the presets that come with Photoshop. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Before and After Eyeglass Reflections | I'm back today with another Lightroom/Photoshop workflow video. This one comes from a request a got a while ago. This time I cover removing eyeglass reflections. There's really not much you can do to remove them in Lightroom since it doesn't have layering or good enough cloning/healing. But with a couple of layers in Photoshop and a quick blend mode change you'll be amazed at how easy it is. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: The Clarity Super Edgy Trick | I wanted to share a way cool trick that I just discovered this week. It has to do with the Clarity slider and the fact that it can only go to 100. I showed another edgier look showing a similar use of the Adjustment Brush a while back, but this one lets you create a preset (because you can't create presets that save the Adjustment Brush). It's quick and simple so I hope you'll check it out. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Everything I Know About the Adjustment Brush | I've been wanting to do a series of videos called "Everything I know about..." for certain tools in Lightroom 3. I figured I'd start with the Adjustment Brush tool since it's got a ton of tiny little keyboard shortcuts that go along with it that you'd never normally find without know the secret ancient handshake :) Have a great day, and I hope you enjoy! | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Before/After Composite | This week it's time for another Before/After video. I figured I'd throw a twist in, and show you how I'd start a composite in Lightroom and bring it over to Photoshop. In fact, this is probably the way most of my composites start, since I shoot tethered to Lightroom most of the time. And, as luck would have it, my Photoshop Compositing Secrets book just came out. So this video just happens to be curiously timed with it's release ;) Seriously though, if you're interested in compositing I hope you'll check out the book at one of the links below: | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: 5 Tips for Custom Print Templates | This week I thought I'd go through the custom print templates in Lightroom 3. It's such a cool feature in that it frees you to lay out a print any way you want. Techniques and layouts that would take 10 layers in Photoshop are, basically, just drag-and-drop with the Custom Package feature. But there's lots of little tips that help make it easier so I figured I'd put them all in one video. Enjoy! | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Watermarking Your Photos | One of the most-requested features before Lightroom 3 came out was watermarking. Adobe delivered and not only gave us watermarking, but a pretty slick interface for it with lots of different options for watermarking your photos. In this week's video, we'll take a look at the watermarking feature, the different places you'll find it, and how you can add custom watermark text or your own graphics. | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Before and After Travel Photography | I'm going to a very popular video series I did a while back called "Before and After". Basically, I click the Reset button on one of my photos in Lightroom and take you through the entire editing process, from start to finish. In the end, we can see the before and after and you'll see exactly how everything unfolded in between. This week's photo is one I tool while teaching in Dubai last year. Exposure-wise, it's pretty straightforward, but you'll see that we've got some perspective correction to do that requires a little more than Lightroom can swing, so we'll need to jump to Photoshop as well. Enjoy! | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Adding Light Sources | This week’s video comes from a trick that I stumbled on a while back, when working on some photos from a trip I took in March. It involves a great little trick to use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to enhance/add/modify/whatever light sources right from within Lightroom. Enjoy! | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Converting Camera Raw Presets | Presets rock right? Well, if you've been a camera raw user before Lightroom then you may have presets in ACR as well. In this week's video, I'll show you a trick for getting them over into Lightroom. While there's no official preset converter to get ACR presets to Lightroom, it's a pretty simple process move your favorite photo recipes over from Camera Raw to Lightroom. Thanks for stopping by! | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Exposure vs. Fill Light Sliders | Last summer I wrote a post about a really popular question I get about the difference between Exposure vs. Brightness. Well, recently I got another question that seemed like a good candidate for a video - the difference between Exposure and Fill Light. They both have a brightening effect but they handle it in a different way (even more so than the differences between Exposure and Brightness). | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Move Develop Presets | Hey folks. Here's a quick video for you on moving presets. Say you get a new computer and you install Lightroom. Well, your old computer has all of your presets on it right? Once you know where they are, moving your presets from one computer to another is really just a drag-and-drop process. In fact, you can move more than just your Develop presets - you can move all of the presets you'd create in Lightroom (Print, Slideshow, Watermarks, Metadata templates, etc...) because they're all stored in the same folder. I hope you enjoy! | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Quick Develop Printing Trick | This has to do with a tip I've covered before about Quick Develop, along with a tip I've covered before about making your photos brighter if they tend to print too dark. You can actually put both of these together to come up with a great solution if you find you need to make a change to a bunch of photos. But not just a change that synchronizes your photos, which basically means you'd make all the settings the same. Say you've already made changes to them. Instead, you can make adjustments that move a specific setting by the same "amount" for each photo. It'd definitely something you need to see rather then read, so stop reading this and click Play | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Painter Tool Tips | I saw a bunch of questions come up about the Painter tool itself so I figured I'd dedicate a video to it. It's probably not the most commonly used tool, but it definitely has it's place. And it's kinda fun to use. | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: HDR Photo Organization Tip | If you're into HDR photography and you're like me, you've got a lot of HDR photos sitting around that you'll never do anything with. Especially the in-between photos that are left from your bracketed series that you may not need to create your final HDR with. In this video tip, I'll show you a quick way to help organize that chaos and make things easier to work with. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoLightroom Killer Tips: Changing the Capture Time If You Travel | There's a cool little feature in Lightroom that (if you're like me and always forget to change it) let's you change the capture date and time after the fact. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoProportional Adjustments | This video covers how to make proportional adjustments to multiple photos using Lightroom's Quick Develop Panel in the Library Module. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoLightroom Tips for Using Presets | Today's tip is from one of the comments on Monday's Wedding Day preset post. Blog reader Nick Noble, left me a comment about installing presets and a different way to do it. Sure enough, there is a WAY better way to install presets in Lightroom. Check out the video to see how. Thanks Nick! | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoLightroom Print Templates | A friend of mine sent me a graphic the other week and asked if we could create something similar in Lightroom. After working with it for a while, I realized that (with some Photoshop help of course) we definitely could. There's some cool little tricks for the Print module along the way as well. Hope you enjoy! | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoLightroom Camera Calibration Profiles | Well, in this video I'll show you a couple of ways to apply a profile if you've already imported your photos, and a way to do it if you know ahead of time (before you import your photos) which profile you'd like to use. | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoBefore and After Travel Photo | This time we stay primarily in Lightroom with a tiny bit of Photoshop retouching. It uses one of the new panels in Lightroom 3 - Lens Correction as well as the usual stuff (Exposure, Sharpening, etc…). | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoMoving from iPhoto to Lightroom 3 | Over the last few week's we've done a number of our 1-day Lightroom seminars and this question seemed to pop up a lot so we figured it would be easier to tackle in a video. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoLightroom Getting Brighter Prints | Well, this video will show you a way to create less test prints and also help identify what the sweet spot is for your prints when it comes to brightness. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoLightroom Camera Calibration | This week we're going to take a look at the Camera Calibration panel. There's a few different things you can do here from customizing color based on your camera to using a color target. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoLightroom Printing with Rounded Corners | Believe it or not, there is and it doesn't require any Photoshop. And when you combine the rounded corners with an identity plate for a graphic or logo and the custom print packages so you can lay out the print any way you want, you can come up with some pretty slick looking prints. | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Trick to Borderless Printing in Lightroom | LightroomKillerTips podcast | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoTarget Collections | LightroomKillerTips podcast | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoAnatomy of a Preset | Lightroom Killer Tips podcast | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoStacking Adjustment Brush Settings | Lightroom Killer Tips | 3/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoMoving Photos in Slideshow | Lightroom Killer Tips podcast | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoBefore and After Black and White | Lightroom Killer Tips podcast | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoLightroom: Before and After Balloon | Lightrooom Killer Tips podcast | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoExport Multiple Versions | LightroomKillerTips podcast | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoProcess Version | Lightroom Killer Tips | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoColor Munki | Lightroom Killer Tips | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoLightroom DNG Save Changes | Lightroom Killer Tips Podcast | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoAdjustment Brush Tip Extravaganza | -- | 12/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoLightroom Before and After | -- | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoFilter Tip | -- | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoJPEG versus RAW | -- | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoMerging Catalogs | -- | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoMatt Eye Fi First Thoughts | -- | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoReorder Photos in Lightroom | -- | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoSaving Files Btw LR and PS | Lightroom Killer Tips podcast | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoSharpening Workflow | -- | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoLaying Out Your Prints | -- | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoOrganizing By Date | Lightroom Killer Tips | 7/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 62 Episodes |
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