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Lightroom in 60-Seconds: What to do when your photo goes missing!

It’s happened to us all — you go to the Develop Module and all the panels are all grayed out, and it says “The File Could Not Be Found” at the top of the screen.…

How To Use Lightroom’s Guided Edit For Fixing Perspective Issue

Last week I was recording an online course called “A Photographer’s Guide to Chicago” and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down on an intersection of…

Here Are My Quality Settings for Saving JPEGs out of Lightroom

Happy Halloween, everybody! Here’s another one I get asked a lot, and it’s an easy one to answer because I’ve been using the same settings for saving my JPEGs for 11-years now. What I look…

Creating an Auto Preset for use in the Cloud-based Lightroom

A couple of years back Adobe released an update to the Auto settings in all of the Lightroom apps (and Camera Raw too). The new and improved Auto is powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s AI…

The Magic & Wonder That is Lightroom’s ‘Solo Mode’

Solo Mode is one of the biggest time-savers and frustration avoiders in all of Lightroom, and it has the power to speed your entire workflow — all you have to do it turn it on.…

A Photoshop Trick for Lightroom Users: Extending The Background

As much as Lightroom does (and it’s a bunch), there are still some things you need to jump over to Photoshop for, and this is one of them. It’s an old school Photoshop trick that…

What’s the Difference Between Lightroom’s Texture and Clarity Sliders?

I get this question a lot, and so I thought I’d share how I think about the two; how they are different, and when to use them. Both of these sliders enhance or bring out…