First look at some Lightroom 4 changes

While there are a lot of great new features in Lightroom 4 that I’ll be discussing in the coming months, there are some small things that I have noticed in my first few days of working with the final version that I thought I would pass along. Most of these...

Lightroom Collections Workflow

Adobe Lightroom has a number of options for you to manage your workflow. One of the best ways is through the use of collections. I was a folder organizer for a number of years even with Lightroom on my machine, but once I understood the value of collections,...

Adobe Lightroom 3 Importing

I am currently teaching a Lightroom class and having a great time. Hopefully the other people in class can say the same. Because of the number of features and limited class time,  I agreed that if there was a topic covered in class that any student wanted covered...

Starry Nights Experiment Part 2

Sometimes in life your best laid plans can go to waste, and so you have a choice of lemons or lemonade.  Several years ago, I visited the Wild Horse Wind Farm in central Washington and fell in love with the place. It is a great location just west of the Columbia River...

Composition basics matter even in snapshots

These two images are an example of why little things matter when we compose and create images. I selected these images because in many ways they are based on a  just so-so image. I think they are good sketches of what might come from my work with motion, land and...

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3.4 and ACR 6.4

  Adobe has released the Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 updates. These updates have been in a release candidate state for about a month with the final release happening earlier today (April 27, 2011). The update adds support for the following cameras: Canon EOS...