The Digital Photo Experience

Forget Photoshop, Launch Lightroom!

“What software should I get first?” is a common question to aspiring photographers, especially when first getting into using DSLR cameras. Or more commonly, “Should I get Photoshop CS4 or Photoshop Elements to start out?” With the term Photoshopped entering the vernacular, it is not surprising that most people think about it first when starting [...]

Lightroom Week: Treatment Tuesday

One of Lightroom’s great strengths is the speed at which it enables us to work with our imagery. Lightroom offers us flexibility and efficiency when ingesting a card full of photos, developing a batch of images, and even exporting to the web or printing. One of the ways in which we can speed up our [...]

Weekend Travel Tips Part 1

 
Day trips are great, but taking a weekend trip for photography can be a great experience and a good way to indulge in your photographic passion for a few days. Not needing to worry about getting home in time or thinking about other commitments for later in the day can be surprisingly liberating! A multi-day [...]

5 Lightroom Quick Tips

 
Lightroom is a great tool for organizing your photo library, working with images and making prints and web galleries. Here are five quick tips for working with this great program.
1)  When fine-tuning any adjustment sliders, hover your mouse over the slider itself and use the up and down arrow  keys to adjust the values in [...]

Shooting for a panorama

 
Sometimes your wide-angle lens just isn’t wide enough, or you want that sunset or that cityscape panorama without the distortion caused by an extremely wide-angle lens. After much trial-and-error, along with many suggestions from others, here is a list of tips for shooting for and creating a great panorama.

Set your exposure and autofocus to manual. [...]

Pre-Travel Research Tips

When you are travelling to a new location, a little preparation goes a long way. We used to have to visit a site to know what it looked like. With the resources available today, mostly through the Internet, you can research a location, have an idea of the view and know enough to pre-visualize some [...]

Exporting Your Images From Lightroom – Part 2

Editor’s note: Jeremy first came to our attention on Rick’s Hudson River Photography Workshops, where he took the two opening pictures for this article. Rick was so impressed with his skills that he asked Jeremy to join our team. Take it away, Jeremy.
Now that we have learned how to export in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2, [...]

Exporting Your Images From Lightroom Part 1

Last time we discussed file management in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, including how to import images into the database, where your files are stored and how the changes made in Lightroom are non-destructive. That leads to the inevitable question – “How do I get my edited images out of Lightroom?” Since Lightroom changes don’t actually affect [...]

Understanding how Lightroom works with your images.

The most difficult thing for most new Lightroom users is an understanding of the way your actual image files are handled. Where do they go when you import them? What happens if you move them?
When you launch Lightroom, you are opening a Lightroom Catalog. A catalog is a database which stores all of the information [...]

Why use Lightroom?

Hi All. My name is Jeremy Pollack, a photographer in central Connecticut. I am going to be joining you here at the Digital Photo Experience blog once a week to talk about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. We’ll be talking about how and why to use Lightroom, tips for workflow, organization, use of the develop module, output [...]