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Hi, gang and greetings from Washington DC (my family and I took a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday with about 800,000 other folks). By the time you read this though, I’ll be in Atlanta for my seminar today (well, that’s the plan anyway), and I’m delighted to have over...

Our interview last week (hosted by Larry Becker) with British fine art photographer Ian Munro (The Gallery at KelbyOne competition winner) was just incredible! He was so brilliant that we’re airing it again in its entirety TODAY. Great insights and amazing images, and from an extremely talented...

I had the pleasure of doing in-person Lightroom Classic/Photoshop trainings in New York and Arizona over the last two weeks, and getting to see people’s catalogs up close and personal has made me even more aware of the crazy catalog names people are using (often unknowingly), which can...

Well, if you’ve ever wondered, Benjamin Warde has the answer, in today’s 60-seconds-0r-less “Lightroom Coffee Break.” Suddenly, it’s all so clear. Thank you, Benjamin! Check out Tuesdays with Dave Williams Every Tuesday, awesome UK-travel photographer Dave...

Happy Monday, folks – I’ve got a quick (just over 2-minutes) little video on renaming your photos that you might find really helpful. Here goes: Hope you did indeed find that helpful. Photoshop World Q&A today! It’s over on my blog — if you’ve ever thought you might...

This is a follow-up for reason #7 from my post on Monday called “If your Lightroom is running slow, it’s probably one of these seven reasons” (here’s the link in case you missed the other 6). #7 was about turning off having Lightroom automatically write .xmp files each...

I received a question from someone wanting to know how to rename their virtual copies the other day, and thought it would make for a useful post to share with you all. The short answer is that you can’t rename your virtual copies because a virtual copy only exists in the catalog as an...

Here’s another awesome new video tip from longtime Adobe Lightroom Team member Benjamin Warde. Even if categorizing photos using the Metadata Painter doesn’t sound all that interesting, it’s more interesting than you’d think, and it’s only 60-seconds so give it a...

Well, I guess it should read, “one or MORE of these seven reasons: 1) Your Lightroom Catalog (and preview files) are NOT on your computer (you’ve stored them on an external hard drive). It’s fine for photos to be stored on an external hard drive (in fact, I recommend it), but...

Hey, gang — I’m trying something new today – an intermediate level start to finish tutorial that moves at a quick pace, and I don’t’ explain every little thing like I would normally do when I create tutorials any level user can follow along with. If you know Lightroom...

Hi, gang – just a heads up – I recorded a training class to get photographers who are interested in the new cloud-storage based “Lightroom CC” up and running fast. It’s called “learn Lightroom CC in One Hour” (though just between us, the total class...

Catalog related questions are the bread and butter of the Lightroom Help Desk, and one of the more common questions pertains to people not opening the correct catalog or not knowing where their catalog is located. A really simple way to ensure you always open the right catalog every time you...

Another awesome, and very quick tip, from longtime Lightroom team member Benjamin Warde. If you’re not using the Adjustment Brush’s new Color Range Masking feature, this video will surely make you want to. Right? Right! It works amazingly well on a wide range of images. You’ve...

In this video, Terry White has the answer to something a lot of Lightroom user have been struggling with, and this method makes it so simple. In the first part of the video, he shows you the most common way people move their entire Lightroom image library from one hard drive to another (maybe...

That’s right — anybody can use Lightroom Mobile (note: it’s no longer called Lightroom Mobile – this mobile app is now called ‘Lightroom CC’). So, your friends, family members, mild acquaintances, pets — they can all simply download Lightroom CC from Apple’s...

(Press Release) DENVER, CO – March 1, 2018 – Quark announced today the upcoming availability of QuarkXPress 2018, the next new full version of Quark’s graphic design and page layout software. Coming on May 16, 2018, QuarkXPress 2018 will bring designers and creative professionals new powerful...

This question came up recently and it got me wondering how many people keep copies of their exported photos from Lightroom, and why? This is not something I do, and I don’t recommend it unless you have a good reason. The context for this question was that this individual had a need to...

I’ve been hearing this question while out on my seminar tour (I’m in Houston Texas today with the seminar), and I thought I’d address it here. The question I’m getting is… “I’m a Lightroom Classic user, and I wanted to use Lightroom Mobile, but when I went to...

Happy Friday, everybody! I’ve been getting this question a lot lately, so I thought I’d tackle it here on the blog: “What do I need to do to prep a photo book I made in Lightroom for printing at Blurb? Do I convert the images to CYMK first? What resolution should they be, and...

I get this question often enough on the Lightroom Help Desk that I thought it worth making a public service announcement about it. The question usually goes something along the lines of, “All of my imported photos keep coming into my catalog with the same keyword applied to them, and I...