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The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC
My latest book for Rocky Nook, looking at Lightroom CC/6 including all the new features. Available in both print and ebook forms.
Penny H: A well written and very comprehensive guide that I thoroughly recommend.
Stefan47: Even an experienced user will learn a few tips from this book.
Piet Van den Eynde: Beginners get more than enough information from this book, but even an experienced user (like I consider myself to be) can learn more than a couple of tricks.
Tips Archive
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Resetting Preferences in Lightroom CC/6
Posted on May 23, 2015 | 14 CommentsOne great addition to Lightroom CC/6 is how the resetting of Preferences is handled. Back in the back old days of Lightroom 5 and previous versions, you had to manually... -
Turning off Lightroom’s GPU preferences even when crashing on startup.
Posted on May 19, 2015 | 24 CommentsBy default Lightroom will have the GPU on, unless it encounters an error with the GPU. The GPU really needs to be good, or Lightroom will actually be slower to... -
Jeffrey Friedl on reducing large catalog size.
Posted on June 26, 2014 | No CommentsOften people will take blogs and do a rough edit then post.. but this post is so good, you need to go over there and read it yourself. Jeffrey Friedl... -
Entering Keyword Hierarchies in Lightroom 5
Posted on June 20, 2013 | 5 CommentsThere’s been a change in method for entering a keyword hierarchy in Lightroom 5. The > now indicates a parent to child relationship, the exact opposite of older versions. It... -
Quick Find
Posted on May 21, 2013 | 1 CommentHere’s a tip for something that I need to do from time to time. I don’t see this in shortcuts, but that may just be me being blind (or a... -
5 Tips for Lightroom Beginners
Posted on December 3, 2011 | No CommentsWith all the Lightroom firesales on, there’s a host of new users fresh to Lightroom. Here’s a few tips to help you get started. 1. Workflow. Lightroom is a modular... -
Auto Import
Posted on September 15, 2011 | No CommentsPrior to having the ability to shoot tethered directly in Lightroom, the only option was to use the Auto Import function. It was also useful before we got the Add... -
Files in Folders, Collections and on Disk
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsWhen you’re working away in Lightroom, sometimes you’ll need to get from the collection, or folder you’re in, to where the files resides, either in Lightroom itself, or on the... -
Quick Restart Lightroom
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsWhether people like to admit it or not, one thing that can help Lightroom performance when it slows down is a restart. It can also help when Lightroom does something... -
Remove accidental Virtual Copies
Posted on April 23, 2011 | 3 CommentsAs a help moderator, I get to see a lot of problems and questions come in. One thing I’ve just answered is in relation to something that I’ve actually done...