Have you ever struggled to find photos quickly and efficiently in Lightroom? You won’t be surprised to learn that you’re not alone and that it’s a common problem. The good…

Some photographers use Photoshop for retouching portraits, especially if they like the heavily retouched look common in advertising and other high-end forms of commercial photography. Some use plugins – at…

When you use Lightroom’s Library module to edit – as in decide which ones to develop – your photos you can use either Survey View or Compare View to compare similar images.…

The Lightroom Compare View makes comparing photos to find the best ones easy. It seems hard to believe now, but back when I started out in photography I used to…

I’m a freelance photographer based in Dorset in the south of England. My background is newspaper photography. I’ve developed a Lightroom workflow that helps me get the job done as…

Renaming photos in Lightroom lets your replace the generic filenames used by your camera with names that are more relevant or useful to you. Why is this useful? I’m glad…

One reason that most photographers favor the Raw format is because of the extra bit depth contained in the file. This lets you take photos of a higher technical quality…

I’m a full-time family photographer in London, specialized in natural portraits. I photograph newborn babies, toddlers and families. I photograph families in their homes – usually in several different rooms…

There’s a trend for creating photos with the matte look in Lightroom, in both color and black and white photography. Today I will show you how it works in monochrome,…

Some photographers consider Photoshop an essential tool for retouching portraits. But I take a different approach and believe that most photographers can do all the portrait retouching they need to…