Prior to Lightroom’s 11.x major upgrade in late 2021, my biggest reason for using Adobe Lightroom as my post-processing app was Jordy Meow’s set of Lightroom/WordPress plugins. They make it stupidly easy to create gallery …
Several of the new features in the latest (2021) Lightroom Desktop 5 upgrade are important enough to deserve the title game changer. I’ll be discussing two of them in this post. Luminance masking and its …
Take a look at the left and right halves of the image below. Hover with your cursor and click. These come from the same Canon RAW image. The left half is unprocessed, the right has …
Pack more megapixels into your photos with one click. Use this feature in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to create ultra-high-resolution images.
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Kiane, a lovely Minneapolis-based model. One of my favorite shots of her was spoiled because I missed the focus. (Note to self: avoid using manual focus …
You may have seen this illusion. Look at it close-up, and it is Albert Einstein. Back away a few feet and it is Marilyn Monroe. What is going on here? You’re seeing the effects of …
If you’re worried about whether you need more megapixels, I used to be like you; let me help you. You do not need more megapixels. I’ll explain in a somewhat Zen-like manner. If you need …
Note: this was written late 2019. Fast-forward to mid-March 2021, Adobe launches “super resolution” – currently only in Adobe RAW and Photoshop. I will review it when it comes to Lightroom. Introduction Almost all my …
“John’s Big Note is a very simple plugin to add a big free-form note for your own metadata.” If you’ve worked in Lightroom for any length of time, there’s come a moment when you’ve wanted …
In construction, an accumulation of small errors can aggregate to create a large catastrophic error. I once heard someone use the word “chasing” to describe this phenomenon. The way to avoid the problems was to …
