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..
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PW128 - 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.
Download the source image and try this yourself.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 4 on TFTTF445
The final, fourth chapter of my Lightroom post processing segment on Photo Day 2009 has been released and is available to watch as part of Chris Marduardt's show, Tips From The Top Floor Ep.445. Chris took over the TWiT cottage for a day while Leo was on vacation and filled the day with Photography tips, discussion and interviews.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 3 on TFTTF442
Part 3 of my Lightroom tutorial given on Photo Day 2009 was just published on Chris Marquardt's Tips From The Top Floor feed. Photo Day was a full day of Photography based tips, interviews, discussions and tutorials broadcast on Leo Laporte's TWiT network - Leo handed Chris the keys to the cottage for a day while he was on vacation. I was lucky enough to take part in the day and this video is from one of my Lightroom tutorials.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 2 on TFTTF436
Chris Marquardt has just posted episode 436 of Tips From The Top Floor which contains part 2 of my contributions to Photo Day 2009. Photo Day was a full day of photography based podcasting run on Leo Laporte's TWiT network and hosted by Chris. I was lucky enough to be involved a couple of times in the day and this video is from the session I did showing how to post process a rather nice black and white landscape shot from Portmeirion in Wales.
Read MorePhoto Day 2009 Part 1 on TFTTF429
My good friend Chris Marquardt has recently been posting episodes from the Photo Day that aired on Twit Live in 2009. I was privileged to be part of the day and Chris recently posted part of my contribution. You can find the episode on the Tips From The Top Floor website as tfttf429 - Photoday 2009 Video - Post Processing with John Arnold - Part 1 of 4. There's a link on the page there to download the MP4 version, which is much higher quality than the embedded YouTube show. I recommend viewing that one.
Read MorePW101 - Tutorial 17, Chapter 2 - Removing coloured light with Lightroom
This is the second and final part of Tutorial 17 where we do some further colour cast removal and then work on light and tone, guiding the eye and some dodging and burning. This show is in the new shorter PhotoWalkthrough style which should enable to me to get more episodes out.
Read MorePW84 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Keywording
It's the end of our second week of Lightroom 2 tips and today we look at all the myriad ways Adobe have given us to add keywords to our images. I know it's something most of us shy away from doing. Who needs another post processing step when all we're really interested in is how the picture looks? But keywording is one of those tasks that given just a little of prior thought can be fast, consistant and incredibly useful. So let's delve into the tools we have available.
Read MorePW83 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Post crop vignettes
Those of you that know me know how much I love my vignettes. Well Adobe made me very happy with Lightroom 2. They added a post-crop vignette feature that does everything I could have wanted. So today Im going to show you all about how to use it.
Read MorePW82 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Export Plugins
Today’s show is a bit off-plan. I intended to show you the new features of LR2 but what I’m showing today is stuff you could already do in LR1. Adobe did make it a little tidier and cleverer so I guess it counts. Today we’ll look at how to setup export plugins that give lightroom more useful export capabilities. In particular we’ll see a couple of different ways to upload to Flickr directly from Lightroom. We’ll also look at where you can find more interesting and useful plugins.
Read MorePW81 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced Graduated Filters
Today we continue looking at our landscape image. We've already corrected the exposure in the sky but now it's time to get a little more creative by bringing the sky and ground tones together and then adding a smoke coloured filter. We also fix up some more light issues and refocus the viewer's attention using a little more adjustment brush.
Read MorePW80 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Neutral density graduated filter
Today we work on a landscape image with an over exposed sky. We do some cropping and rotation to begin with followed by a little spot editing to remove some distractions. Then we get to work with the Graduated Neutral Density Filter to fix up the sky and bring the tones in the image closer together.
Read MorePW79 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced adjustment brush tips
Today we round out the first week of Lightroom 2 tips with some advanced techniques for use with the Adjustment Brush. We also look at spot editing, snaphots, the non-destructive history in Lightroom and how to make graduated edits without using a Wacom tablet. Look out next week for a second week of Lightroom 2 tips!
Read MorePW78 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush presets
Today we move on to a picture of my sister and do a little beauty retouching with the soften skin adjustment brush preset. We also do some cropping, rotation and tweaking the colour temperature.
Read MorePW77 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush clarity and saturation
Sticking with the adjustment brush we move on to a new image today and use clarity and saturation to re-focus the eye and draw attention to a different part of the picture.
Read MorePW76 - Lightroom 2 Tips - Adjustment brush colour filters
Today we spend more time with the adjustment brush - there's just so much you can do with it! We'll try changing the background colour of an image completely as though we'd used a clever shaped colour filter when we shot the picture.
Read MorePW75 - Lightroom 2 Tips - Adjustment brush dodge and burn
This week I decided to celebrate the launch of Lightroom 2 with a full week of shows demonstrating the new features. Today we start with the best known new feature - the adjustment brush. We'll be using that to dodge and burn some flower macro photos taken at Kew Gardens.
Read MorePW74 - Tutorial 15, Chapter 5 - Mow Cop Sunset
This week we have some happy and sad news as well as a brand new composition segment introducing a new creativity exercise followed by the final chapter in Tutorial 15.
Read MorePW73 - Quicktip - Shrinking and downsampling your images
This week we've got a quicktip - which ended up being as long as a regular show - all about downsizing your images for displaying them on the web while keeping the detail. We spend some time with Photoshop and Lightroom today.
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PW72 - Tutorial 15, Chapter 4 - Mow Cop Sunset
The next chapter in Tutorial 15 features a lot of work on colours designed to bring out the light and sunset colours within the image. We also have a new assignment and a great new offer on the Drobo Storage Robot. We also have another cover version of a Howard Jones classic from band Audio1 to play us out during the slideshow.
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