Lightroom Tips
4 Ways To Avoid A Disaster If You Edit In Lightroom
If you use Lightroom to edit your photos, you may (or may not) realize that your edits are not applied to your image unless you export them out of Lightroom. Lightroom is essentially a big, huge database of information. When you edit, whether you use Lightroom presets, make manual adjustments or both, your changes just…
Save Time With This Free Keyboard Shortcut App
Shortcut keys save seasoned photo editors huge amounts of time. When you memorize combinations of keystrokes and no longer have to search for them, you’ll cut editing time dramatically. We’ve made lists of our favorite keyboard shortcuts for Photoshop and Elements in the past, and these free printable lists really help. But we just came…
Everything You Need to Know About the ALL Powerful Lightroom 5 Radial Filter
You might remember the controversy surrounding this photo. Its beauty and editing potential are so great that we are using it again as an example to illustrate how to use the Lightroom 5 Radial Filter. Thanks again to Dayna Moore for sharing this fabulous image with us! The Radial Filter is a tool that…
Bringing Sunshine and Warmth Into Your Photos Using Lightroom
Before and After Step-by-Step Edit: Lightroom edits that can make all the difference in your photos by bringing in some sunshine and “lighting” it up! The MCP Show and Tell Site is a place for you to share your images edited with MCP products (our Photoshop actions, Lightroom presets, textures and more). We’ve always shared before…
How to fix Adobe Lightroom 5.4 assertion failed error
If you upgrade to Adobe Lightroom 5.4, then there is a chance that you will be affected by a software-breaking bug. If you already did, then you may be getting the Adobe Lightroom 5.4 assertion failed error. This prevents you from editing your photos, but there are some fixes available that you can try. Well, read on to fix your issue!
Batch Editing in Lightroom – Video Tutorial
Batch editing is one of the best benefits of using Lightroom as a starting point for your photo edits. It’s quick and easy! And once you’ve done all that you can with your photos in Lightroom, you can even open them into Photoshop in a batch for any final edits you’re looking to make. …
10 Secret Ingredients to Get Powerful Sunflare
Capturing sunflare and bursts of light is easy and can really make a huge impact on select photos. Learn to get artistic sunflare in your images with these 10 easy-to-follow steps.
Get the Looks You Want for Your Images NOW!
Get the looks you want using these quick, easy steps and our new Infusion and Illuminate Lightroom presets. Starting with an already great image definitely opens up a world of possibilities with editing. You, as the photographer/artist, can take the edit in nearly any direction. Edit 1 – the matte look (first image below these…
Four Essential Steps to Speed Up Your Editing in Photoshop
If editing your photos has become a time consuming chore, we are here to help. There are a number of ways that Photoshop CS and CC users can speed up their editing. Start in Lightroom – Use Lightroom to organize, sort and cull your files – and ideally to fix exposure and white balance if…
How to Edit an Image with Improper Exposure in Lightroom
You may have seen this image on our controversial post about exposure or on our product pages for InFusion and Illuminate Presets. Now we are going to answer “how I created such a bright image and such a dark image from the same photo?” How to take an underexposed image and pull out detail it…
How to Get Artistic Tones with Lightroom Presets
Getting artistic results like this is quick and easy using our new Lightroom presets: InFusion and Illuminate. Assuming you know how to take beautifully lit images as shown in the before and you can click your mouse, and you own Lightroom 4 or 5, you can do it too. Thank you to Lindsay Gutierrez of…
Lightroom and Photoshop for a More Powerful Edit
I often get asked which software a photographer should purchase, Lightroom or Photoshop. To me, you can afford it, I recommend getting Lightroom and Photoshop. They are not interchangeable and each has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Want quick, consistent edits: LIGHTROOM is the winner. Want details, concise edits or the ability to combine multiple images…
LR Export Made Easy: The Ins of Getting Out of Lightroom
How do you save edited photos in Lightroom? This question bothers many first time Lightroom users. Especially when they hear that the answer is that you don’t save your edits when you use Lightroom! Lightroom is a database that permanently stores each edit you make to a photo the moment you make it. It doesn’t…
Hurry: How to Backup Your Lightroom Catalog Today
We all know that Lightroom is powerful photo editing software. But did you know that a large part of this power comes from the fact that Lightroom is actually a database – the Lightroom Catalog? Lightroom is unlike many popular photo editing softwares that we are used to. Using Photoshop, for example, you open an…
Lightroom 5 Now Available: MCP Lightroom Presets Work Flawlessly
Lightroom 5 is out and MCP Lightroom presets all work flawlessly in it. Here’s what you have to look forward to if you upgrade.
What Editing Style Fits You Most?
As a photographer, once you define your photography look you will also want to determine your editing style. Here are some tips on how to do this.
Uncover Camera Settings + More in Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom
Uncover Camera Settings: Be a Photo Detective Have you taken a photo and later been asked, “what where your settings?” Or have you looked at a session and thought, “how can I improve upon these next time?” Sometimes you may even see a photo online and wonder what settings another photographer used … For most…
How to Draw Attention in Lightroom Using the Graduated Filter Tool
How to Draw Attention in Lightroom Using the Graduated Filter Tool When it comes to processing photographs there’s no question that one of the best values in for editing is Adobe Lightroom. It’s affordable and extremely powerful, but it can be a bit intimidating. I do understand why people are hesitant to pull the trigger…
Lightroom Presets: Use The Secret Import-Export Trick
This blog post will teach you how to create multiple looks with one photo using MCP Enlighten presets.
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