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There’s a Camera Conference Next Week and You’re Invited

Hey, everybody – I’m back from nine days in Prague, and I’m ready to get back at it (I was leading a travel photography workshop, and it was epic. Epic! What a blast!). Anyway, next…

How to edit amazing looking photos in Lightroom Classic

How to edit amazing looking photos in Lightroom Classic Hi Cafe Crew! In this tutorial, I’m going to show you the steps I take to edit a photo in Lightroom Classic. Before and after image…

Photoshop For Lightroom Users: The Sharpening Filters

I’m in Prague today, leading a travel photography workshop, so I thought I’d do an installment of Photoshop for Lightroom Users column to kick off this week (since I won’t be posting much until next…

Boris FX Optics: Lens Flares & Film Effects in Lightroom

By Ross Shain If you enjoy exploring lighting and special effects in your edits and would like to do more in Lightroom without jumping to Photoshop, this tutorial might be for you. Boris FX Optics…

Finding a Photo’s Location on a Drive

It is not uncommon for a Lightroom Classic (LrC) user to become confused about where a given photo is actually stored on a drive. This can be when performing a search using the Library Filter…

When to Use Lightroom’s Awesome “Draft Mode” Printing (and when not to)

If you’re printing a multi-photo layout from Lightroom Classic (there’s one below, for example), I would encourage you to turn on “Draft Mode Printing” (as seen above) to have your print come out of the…

Sharpening For Landscape Photos

If your landscape image has any visible noise in the image, the place it’s most likely to appear is in the sky. If you have a lot of clouds in your sky, those will often…

How To Apply a Preset on Import in Lightroom ‘cloud’ (and the hidden trick to undo it)

For you folks using LR Classic, this is going to sound weird from the start, but the ability to apply a Preset to images on Import in LR ‘cloud’ does exist, but you won’t find…