October 5th, 2007
Eric Scouten from Adobe has an excellent article on creating work-lists using keywords. Prior to this I was using collections as a means of organizing images I needed to keyword and caption, but I found myself forgetting to update them as new images came in.
Eric’s solution is much more convenient approach that utilizes a search […]
October 5th, 2007
As a former windows user (since the 3.1 days) I would have never thought this tip was possible. I’ve been running with my preview folder linked as Sean describes since he first posted. It works like a charm.
Read: Moving the Preview folder (Mac OSX)
September 6th, 2007
A super fast means of converting images to BW from almost anywhere in Lightroom.
September 3rd, 2007
A recent article on O’Reily’s Inside Lightroom blog talks about the catalog selection screen in Lightroom. In short, if you have multiple catalogs you can set LR to ask you which catalog you wish to use each time LR launches. While convenient, there is an even easier way.
Rather than managing another dialog box with each […]
May 16th, 2007
While there are many ways someone can copy images from a web page, this article will focus on one method called URL hacking. I will outline how to use URL hacking to access the largest resolution images available in Lightrooms flash-based galleries. I’ll then show you how to prevent it on your site.
March 25th, 2007
A Folder Action for OS X users to automatically compress library backups created by Lightroom.
March 14th, 2007
Here is a tip that expands on [hiding the histogram][1].
Each panel on the right-hand side can be activated or hidden using keyboard shortcuts. Pressing Command plus a corresponding number. Numbers are assigned to panels from the top to the bottom starting with 1. Zero (0) is reserved for non-scrollable panels such as the Histogram and […]
March 13th, 2007
During the Lightroom Beta you could change the size of the filmstrip with either a slider or a series of “s, m, l, xl” buttons. While these tools are no longer available the ability to change the filmstrip size remains.
Slowly move your mouse over the line dividing the black bar containing the filters and the […]
March 13th, 2007
To instantly go into full-screen mode and hide all the panels, use the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-Tab.
Pressing this shortcut again will exit full screen mode but it will not show the panels again.