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... [more]

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 [...] [less]

Today we continue looking at our landscape image. We’ve already corrected the exposure in the sky but now it’s... [more]

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 [...] [less]

Today we work on a landscape image with an over exposed sky. We do some cropping and rotation to begin with followed by a... [more]

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 [...] [less]

Today we round out the first week of Lightroom 2 tips with some advanced techniques for use with the Adjustment Brush. We... [more]

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 [...] [less]

Today we move on to a picture of my sister and do a little beauty retouching with the soften skin adjustment brush preset.... [more]

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.

PW78 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush presets

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Sticking with the adjustment brush we move on to a new image today and use clarity and saturation to re-focus the eye and... [more]

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.

PW77 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush clarity and saturation (mp4 video)

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Today we spend more time with the adjustment brush - there’s just so much you can do with it! We’ll try changing... [more]

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.

PW76 - Lightroom 2 Tips - Adjustment brush colour filters

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This week I decided to celebrate the launch of Lightroom 2 with a full week of shows demonstrating the new features. Today... [more]

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.

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This week we have some happy and sad news as well as a brand new composition segment introducing a new creativity exercise... [more]

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.

PW74 - Tutorial 15, Chapter 5 - Mow Cop Sunset (MP4 video)
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This week we’ve got a quicktip - which ended up being as long as a regular show - all about downsizing your images... [more]

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.

PW73 - Quicktip - Shrinking and downsampling your images (MP4 video)

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The next chapter in Tutorial 15 features a lot of work on colours designed to bring out the light and sunset colours within... [more]

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 [...] [less]

Sorry for the short show this week. I planned a full length show but some unexpected emergency work came up with my other... [more]

Sorry for the short show this week. I planned a full length show but some unexpected emergency work came up with my other business - the one that pays my mortgage! So to keep the ball rolling we’ve got some more Photoshop Express quicktips dealing with some of the very complete and capable features in [...] [less]