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Avoiding a Lightroom Folder Mess — Lightroom Import Basics

If you have ever gotten frustrated trying to get your photos into Lightroom, this post will calm you down and get you back on track.

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How to Quickly Share Your Lightroom Collections on Facebook

This tutorial shows how to set up Lightroom for publishing your photos on Facebook. The process is similar for other photo sharing services such as Flickr or SmugMug. Once you edit your photos in Lightroom, possibly using MCP Quick Clicks Collection presets or even the free Mini Quick Clicks presets, you want to display your…

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How to Create a Watermark in Lightroom 3

Learn to brand your images by using a watermark in Lightroom 3.

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Hazy or Vivid: You’ll Be Shocked How Fast You Can Create Looks in Lightroom

In seconds you can create dozens of looks you will love, when combining the power of Lightroom with our well crafted Lightroom Presets.

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How to Fix a Screwed Up Photo with Lightroom Presets & Raw!

Have you ever screwed up while taking a photo? Bet you have. Learn to fix those “outtakes” and make them useable again.

Slash Editing Time with Our Lightoom Presets Collection

You already rely on MCP Actions for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to help you create gorgeous, artistic images with minimal time and effort. Now, we’re offering Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw users the same one-click convenience and eye-catching results.

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Lightroom Presets Make Editing Faster

A few close photographer friends of mine got a sneak peek as testers for our upcoming Lightroom Presets.  I am featuring some of them in upcoming weeks so you can see how to edit with these new tools. Make sure to check back Monday, October 17th to get your presets!   Picture edit 1 is…

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Edit Wars: Lightroom VS Photoshop – Which is Best and Why

In the battle for the top spot in today’s photo editing marketplace, there are two clear winners: Photoshop and Lightroom. Learn which is better and why!

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Share Your Before & After Edits to Win Lightroom Presets

Win Lightroom Presets by MCP Actions before you can buy them!

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Win Our Upcoming Lightroom Preset Collection ~ Share a Blueprint

Enter to win our contest for the new Quick Clicks Lightroom Preset Collection. Just share a before and after photo to enter.

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What Photo Editing Software Do You Use Most?

Every year I like to learn what photo editing software is most popular with our readers.  This helps us at MCP Actions decide where we will focus efforts for new products and free video tutorials. As a result of past surveys, we have introduced more for PSE Photoshop Elements users. Please take a second to…

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How To Create a High Key Image in Photoshop

How To Create a High Key Image in Photoshop by Michael Sweeney A classic look in photography is Black and White imagery. Black and white images are not always pure; sometimes they are sepia tone or cool blue tone, or even Duotone which is not B/W but most drop it into that catagory. It’s a…

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Digital Workflow Using Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw and Bridge

Digital Workflow – Using Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop by Barbie Schwartz In this digital age of photography, many photographers struggle with their workflow, and getting the time spent processing images down to a manageable level. Photoshop is such a powerful application, and has many tools and features built in to help with this…

What’s Next For MCP: Share Your Ideas to Win

As many of you may know, MCP Actions typically introduces one new live online workshop a year, 2 full action sets a year (one in the spring and one in the fall), and a holiday free action.  Occasionally other small projects pop up along the way but this is the formula that has worked well…

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To “defog” or not to “defog” in Lightroom or Photoshop

When you say the word defog to a photographer or Photoshop professional, you usually get one of three reactions: What is a “defog?” I LOVE defogging. It is the best! I hate defogging. It is the worst. Like many things in the photograph industry, it can be controversial.  I have gotten into many disagreements on…

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Lightroom Tutorial – Organizing Photos For Quick Editing

For more great Lightroom Tutorials (and lessons on the Beta version of Lightroom 3) join NAPP (The National Association of Photoshop Professionals). After you have flagged all your images as “picks” or “rejects” you can get down to making a collection of these images to edit. You will need to decide if you want to…

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Lightroom Tutorial – The Speed Round – Sort Photos Faster

When using Lightroom, you may be tempted to “rate” your shots. Sorting them on a 1-5 scale takes a lot of time, or shall I say can waste a lot of time.  You really need to decide, are you showing/keeping the image, or is the image unworthy. A better way to do this is to…

Shooting Raw is the only way…

According to Jamie Taylor of SouthCape Photography, shooting Raw is not an option. It is a necessity. And while you may feel it is or strongly that it is not, I love her dedication and the way she argues her point below. Enjoy! Camera Raw is an unprocessed, uncompressed raw file. Jpeg is a processed…

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Quick Tip: How to Make a Rounded Corners Border in Lightroom

Here is a great time saving trick to use in Lightroom if you love the look of rounded corners for your photographs.  Go to POST CROP.  Then change settings to: Amount = +100 Midpoint = 0 Roundness = -100 Feather = 0 The results are shown here.  Play around with the midpoint and roundness to…

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Shortcut Keys in Lightroom (Edit Faster and Smarter)

Thank you again to Nathan Holritz from Photographer’s Edit. Here is a follow up to his video – a list of shortcut keys that you can use in Lightroom.

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