Kelly Anne MartinPhotography

This episode of @lightroomtips - the blog version features a graphical tutorial about how to customize the interface of Lightroom. This is more of a fun tip than a useful one - but there's nothing that says Lightroom needs to be all business! I'm using Lightroom 2 below - the process may be different (or limited) in Lightroom 1. One of the nice things about Lightroom is that Adobe has built into the program the ability to customize the look of the workspace, right down to the logo that appears at the top.

This episode of @lightroomtips - the blog version features a video tutorial about how to use the Quick Collection feature in Lightroom.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first full-blog edition of Lightroom Tip of the Day. I hope to do a full blog edition once every week, typically on Thursday. For my old readers, welcome back. Lightroom is a photo organization and editing software produced by Adobe systems (you know, the guys who do Photoshop?). Over the past two years, it has taken the photography world by storm. I've used Lightroom since it was first released, and find that as the program gets more sophisticated, I am going to photoshop less and less for photo editing. Lightroom is a fantastic RAW editor - the nondestructive editing properties mean that I can revisit and re-edit a photo even after making significant changes - I can even export the photo, decide I want a brand new look, and reset the image to the import settings and start again, all with a few clicks of the mouse. Lightroom Tip of the Day is a Twitter account I have created to give photographers one Lightroom tip every (week)day. The twitter account is @lightroomtips. Today's tip is : Rename presets can help you save time when renaming images. Interested? Read more below.

I was asked on Twitter today about Lightroom, how to get started and how the workflow goes – memory card -> hard drive -> Lightroom Library and Develop -> backup.  I thought I’d make a quick tutorial about one way to accomplish a basic workflow in Lightroom. First, start out with an empty catalog.  Save your [...]