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.
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PW136 - 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 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 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.
Download the source image and try this yourself.
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Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is out now
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If you've not already tried out Lightroom 3 beta then now is a great time to jump on board. Beta 2 has just been released and it's available from labs.adobe.com to try for free. It's a limited time beta and I don't recommend using it as your main photo repository since the database files likely will not be forward compatible with the final version. But it's a great way to get to grips with Lightroom, see what it can do for you, see what's new and give Adobe feedback on how you'd like to see it improved.
Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta available
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Adobe has announced the beta for the latest version of Lightroom. As before it's an open beta and anyone can try it out. Headlining the new features right now are enhancements to speed, noise reduction and image quality - all of which are significant and important but I've a hunch there will be more new toys for us too. Check it out at labs.adobe.com and remember - this is an unfinished BETA version of the product that doesn't yet have all the intended features of the final version. Download it, try it out, but DON'T rely on it and don't start using it for your main photography workflow. It will run along side Lightroom 2 without interfering.
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