Today we conclude our free lightroom video tutorial on picture packages and printing from lightroom 3. We see how to make a picture package layout, customise it with your company name and website and even make a custom package that uses more than one image.
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PW141 - Lightroom 3 Tips - Picture Packages
In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial we take a look at Picture Packages - an extremely useful feature for event photographers wanting to print and sell their images at the event. We see how to make a picture package layout, customise it with your company name and website and even make a custom package that uses more than one image.
Read MorePW140 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 3 - Northwest Wales Sunset
Today we complete our free photoshop video tutorial showing how we turned that badly exposed RAW file into a bright, colourful and interesting seascape. In this show we do some dodging and burning using a bitmap layer and then we use a curves layer with overlay blending mode to darken the corners as a vignette. Finally we use a neat technique for adding a lens flare to the image without the filter making a destructive edit.
Read MorePW139 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 2 - Northwest Wales Sunset
In today's show we show you how to use the lightroom adjustment brush and graduated filters to boost contrast and colour and add a sunset glow on the horizon. We then move over into Photoshop for the rest of our tutorial where we begin with some dust spot removal with the spot healing brush tool to deal with lens and sensor dust. Then we use a curves adjustment layer and paint on its layer mask to boost the oranges in our horizon glow.
Read MorePW138 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 1 - Northwest Wales Sunset
Today we start a brand new tutorial showing how I turned a very challenging exposure into a very pleasing seascape with rich blue, purple and yellow tones using Adobe Lightroom and then Photoshop. In this episode I use colour balance and graduated filters to add the colour toning and some sky darkening. I also bring back detail in the very light and dark regions by using the fill light and recovery sliders.
Read MorePW136 - Importing your photos from laptop to desktop using Lightroom
In today's Lightroom video tutorial I show you the best way to take photos from your laptop to your desktop when you've been shooting and editing your pictures on the road. You can keep all your RAW files and the lightroom edits intact and still merge those pictures back into your master Lightroom catalog. Learn how..
Read MorePW135 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 4 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today we finish up our tutorial 20 lightroom 3 and photoshop cs5 video tutorials with a show all about creating your slideshow, adding a graphical identity plate overlay, watermarking your images and then exporting the slideshow as a video.
Read MorePW134 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 3 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today we have chapter 3 of our tutorial using the new features of both Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Today we do some dodging and burning, cropping, saving with transparency and take a look at stacks in the Lightroom filmstrip.
Read MorePW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow
Today's show does double duty as both part of our Lightroom 3 review and also the first chapter in a new tutorial. We'll be adding fashion labels to our photographs as a fun way to brand a Lightroom 3 slideshow and I'll show you how the label is made by using new features from Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. If you want to see what we're aiming for I've uploaded the Lightroom 3 Slideshow to my Flickr.
Read MorePW131 - Lightroom Video Review - Flickr Upload and Import Dialog
On today's Lightroom 3 Video Review show we look at a new feature that is already saving me a lot of time and helping me share more of my photos - the new Flickr upload that is part of the publishing service. Lightroom 3 can now integrate directly with Flickr and keep collections up to date for you - even downloading the comments. We'll also take a look at the new import dialog which boasts an improved and simplfied layout plus a very useful new import presets feature.
Read MorePW130 - Lightroom 3 Video Review - Lens and Perspective Correction, Grain
Today we continue our video review of Adobe Lightroom 3 by taking a good hard look at the new lens correction feature and see how it can be used to perform perspective correction just like a tilt and shift lens. We also see what the new Grain tool can do to help you decide whether Lightroom 3 is a worthwhile upgrade for you.
Read MorePW129 - Lightroom 3 Video Review - Noise Reduction
Today we start our video review of Lightroom 3, the brand new version of Lightroom, by taking a real in-depth look at one of the headline new features, improved noise reduction. We put it to the test with a real high ISO image and try to help you decide for yourself whether Lightroom 3 is a worthwhile upgrade for you.
Read MorePW128 - Tutorial 19 - High Key, High Colour Portraits
Today's Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 video tutorial shows how to create the attractive high key, high contrast, bright colour portrait style that's so fashionable at the moment with companies like Venture. In this one chapter tutorial I used Photoshop CS5 to produce the effect and then show how to do the same thing using Lightroom 3. These steps work equally well in earlier versions of Photoshop as far back as CS and Lightroom 2.
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