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Tips and tricks and how-to guides related to Lightroom 4.
Changing the thumbnail image, or poster frame, used for videos in Lightroom can be a handy way to provide a more useful visual reference point when you’re trying to find the video you’re after. Here’s how to do it.
Lightroom doesn’t have much in the way of editing tools when working with video files, but it does have the ability to trim the beginning or end of video clips.
Color labels are one of several useful workflow tools in Lightroom. And if you want to customize what text label is paired with which color, you can. Here’s how.
Lightroom has a super quick way to switch between landscape and portrait orientations with the crop tool. Here’s how to do it.
Lightroom’s map module uses GPS coordinates in the degrees, minutes, and seconds format. If you need them in decimal degree format, here’s a quick way to convert them.
If you’re looking to extract a single frame from a video and save it as a JPG, here’s how to do it in Lightroom.
Here’s how to enable the Publish Services, Catalog, Folders, or Collections panels in the Library module if they’re not visible.
By itself, Lightroom can’t find duplicate photos. But here are a couple of plugins available that can add that functionality.
Here’s how to quickly delete rejected photos in Lightroom to help speed up the culling part of the workflow.
A guide to selecting multiple photos in Lightroom.
Luminar 4 is designed as a standalone app, but you can also use it alongside Lightroom. Here’s how to install and use Luminar as a plugin in Lightroom Classic CC.
Lightroom’s white balance tools help reduce color casts. They can be used to neutralized any casts or break the rules and create an entirely new look.
Trying to figure out how to convert RAW files to JPEG in Lightroom Classic? Here’s how to do it.
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.
Here’s how to change the image that’s used as the cover image for an image stack.
Lightroom has a quick way to separate out the virtual copies from the master versions. Here’s how to do it in the Library module.
There are several different ways to post to Instagram from a desktop or laptop. Here’s an option for posting to Instagram from Lightroom directly.
JPEGmini Pro offers a way to make filesizes impressively smaller when you export JPGs from Lightroom or use with a publish service.
If you’re looking to export multiple images organized into folders while preserving the folder structure, there’s a plugin that can add that capability to Lightroom.
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.
Here’s a method for exporting square photos from Lightroom without having to create virtual copies or use the crop tool.
Contact sheets are a throwback to film days, but they still have their uses. Here’s a guide on how to make a contact sheet in Lightroom.
Vignetting is a common issue with many lenses, especially at wide apertures. Lightroom has two methods to tackle correcting or reducing it.
The ability to dim the lights in Lightroom is a handy little tool for distraction-free viewing, sorting, and editing of your photos.
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.
Lightroom has a built-in feature to automatically stack images by the time interval between their capture time. In the right workflow it can save a lot fo time and tedium.
Sometimes you just need to find the original file on your hard drive. Lightroom has a simple built-in function for that.
A step-by-step guide to rotating photos in Lightroom, including 90-degree rotation, auto straighten, precise straighten, and rotating multiple photos.
Chromatic aberration like purple fringe is something you don’t want in your photos. Here’s how to remove it in Lightroom.
Flickr is one of the most popular ways to share photos online. Here’s how to get your photos from Lightroom to Flickr.
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.
Having trouble finding the resize button in Lightroom Classic? There isn’t one. Here’s a simple guide to what you do instead.
