Develop module

Many photographers would like to know how to dodge and burn their black and white photos in Lightroom Classic. Before we look at this in detail it’s interesting to note…

The Profile Browser shows you which color profiles are available for a particular photo in your installation of Lightroom Classic. Lightroom Classic has more profiles than earlier versions of Lightroom,…

When you develop photos, regardless of which software you use, your actions are either local adjustments (i.e they’re applied to part of the image) or global adjustments (applied to the…

In my earlier tutorial Four Reasons For Retouching Portraits in Lightroom Classic I looked at why you can use Lightroom Classic for developing authentic, natural portraits that capture character. That…

If you want to get the most out of Lightroom Classic it helps if you know your way around the Develop module. But it’s easy to overlook some of the…

Any photographer who has used Lightroom Classic for a number of years has probably built up a large collection of Develop Presets and plugins. In fact, it’s easy to install…

Do you know how many types of Preview there are in Lightroom Classic? The answer is six – and they’re all used at various stages of the Lightroom Classic workflow…

If you’ve ever wondered how you can make Lightroom Classic faster in the Develop module then converting your Raw files to DNG may be part of the answer. To understand…

It took me a long time to appreciate the workflow benefits of using Snapshots in Lightroom Classic. I used to use Virtual Copies to create multiple versions of the same…

If you are new to Lightroom Classic or not yet totally comfortable with the Develop module then you may be wondering if there’s a way to speed up the process…