Lightroom
Tips & Tricks
Quality Settings When Exporting JPGs from Lightroom
The Lightroom export function allows you fine tune the quality of the resulting JPEGs in increments of single percentage points. But it turns out that the quality settings actually work in bands.
The Ins and Outs of Zooming in Lightroom
Lightroom’s basic zooming in on a photo is simple and intuitive, but there are ways to get even more control over how it works to better suit your preferences and workflow.
How to Customize the Color Labels in Lightroom
Lightroom has many thoughtful workflow tools. Color coding image labels isn’t especially glamorous, but it can be an extremely useful way of organizing your images. And if you want to customize what text label is paired with which color, you can. Here’s how.
How to Filter by Image Orientation of Landscape, Portrait, or Square
If you need to filter out just the portrait (vertical), landscape (horizontal), or square images, you can use the Aspect Ratio filter criteria.
How to Find the Original Image File on Your Hard Drive
Sometimes you just need to find the original file on your hard drive. Lightroom has a simple built-in function for that.
Can Lightroom Find Duplicates?
By itself, Lightroom can’t find duplicate photos. But here are a couple of plugins available that can add that functionality.
How to Emulate Instagram’s Filters in Lightroom
If you’re trying to get that Instagram filter look in Lightroom, here’s a set of premium Lightroom develop presets that mimic Instagram’s filters.
Lightroom’s Dehaze Filter
Lightroom’s new dehaze slider can be a very useful tool in recovering detail in hazy or misty scenes. It can also have some strongly negative effects.
How to Add Presets to Lightroom
There are two methods to installing Lightroom develop presets. One is better suited to bundles of multiple presets, while the other is better for individual presets.
How to Resize Photos in Lightroom Classic
Having trouble finding the resize button in Lightroom Classic? There isn’t one. Here’s a simple guide to what you do instead.
How to Generate Captions Automatically in Lightroom
Lightroom itself doesn’t have the ability to use tokens to automatically generate captions, but here’s a plugin that can do a lot of heavy lifting for you.
How to Select Images Shot with the Exact Same Camera in Lightroom Classic
Here’s how to filter all the images taken with a specific camera in Lightroom Classic.
How to Crop and Straighten Photos in Lightroom
A step-by-step guide on how to crop and straighten photos in Lightroom.
How to Make Image Stack Icons Visible Again
If you can’t see the stack icons on the thumbnails in the grid view, here’s how to make sure that the option to display them is turned on.
Revealing Clipped Highlights and Shadows
Lightroom has a very useful feature that shows you precisely the parts of an image where highlights or shadows are getting clipped as you adjust the settings.
Lightroom Tips: The New and Improved Clarity Tool
Lightroom’s Clarity tool in the Develop module helps bring out the detail in photos and now works much better than in earlier versions of Lightroom.
How to Resize Thumbnails in Lightroom’s User Interface
If you’re using Lightroom on different computers, you might want to change the size of the thumbnails in Lightroom’s user interface. Here’s how to do it.
Lightroom Classic CC 7.1’s New AI Auto Function | Real-World Examples
The Auto tone function has been given a major overhaul in the latest update to Lightroom Classic CC (7.1) to use Adobe’s artificial intelligence network, Sensei, in an effort to improve the effectiveness of Auto tone. Here’s how it works in practice.
