Lightroom Tip of the Week (7): fading a Lightroom Preset
This is a video remake of an older tip I did when the blog was still in Dutch. I get asked this question quite a lot during the workshops: ‘Is there a way to ‘fade’ the effect of a preset?’. Well,...
View ArticleA quick Lightroom tip for B/W Photographers
This picture of a rickshaw driver in Fort Cochin, Kerala, India was converted to Black & White using Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software. I subsequently added the old-school film border (they’re...
View ArticleBack in Belgium – Off to Holland…
Every journey must come to an end, even if that journey is a crazy 10 month trip through South-East Asia by means of an even crazier mode of transportation (a bicycle) loaded with the craziest weight...
View ArticleLightroom Tip of the Week (8): The best of both worlds
Ok, I know, I really should be calling this part of the blog ‘Lightroom Tip of the Month’ or maybe even ‘My bi-quarterly Lightroom Tip’ but I hope to improve the frequency of the tips now that I’m back...
View ArticleLightroom Tip of the Week: the many uses of a Virtual Copy
One of the advantages of the fact that Lightroom is essentially a database, is that you can use Virtual Copies. As I explained during my presentations at Professional Imaging, Virtual Copies allow you...
View ArticleFading a Lightroom preset, revisited.
A while ago, I did a (quite popular) blogpost on how you can ‘fade’ Lightroom presets if their effect is too strong. In short, there used to be two options: 1) ‘Reverse engineering the preset’ In this...
View ArticleConsidering upgrading to Lightroom 4?
As more and more people are upgrading their Lightroom catalogs, some questions arise on the internet. So, let’s have a look at them: 1) Lightroom 4 – Photoshop CS5 compatibility. As you may know,...
View ArticleLightroom Do’s: 7 tips for beginning Lightroom users
Below are a couple of practical recommendations to help beginners use Lightroom in an optimal way and avoid making typical beginners’ errors. They’re based on my experience with teaching Lightroom to...
View ArticleLightroom Don’ts: 6 things beginning Lightroom users should watch out for
The next couple of tips are based on my experience of teaching Lightroom to numerous photographers. If you read them thoroughly, they will prevent you from making many of the typical mistakes novice...
View Article“The Photographer’s Workflow UnMasked”, or why two eBooks can be better than...
I’ve had the pleasure of reading a highly interesting book about Lightroom this weekend. It’s called The Photographer’s Workflow and it’s written by travel photographer Gavin Gough. As you know, I just...
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