Editing ONLY in Lightroom: Before & After with Video

A few weeks ago, I was reading an interesting thread on www.ilovephotography.com where one of the most respected members said that most photographers don’t use Lightroom for more than organization and basic fixes like White balance and exposure. In her…

Creating Smart Collections in Lightroom – and WHY

I do most of my initial edits in lightroom (basic exposure adjustment, white balance) and then any image I present to clients gets further polishing in Photoshop. That means that every file that I present will be a PSD file.…

Making Session Album Prints in Lightroom – Free Template Included!

In my first collection that includes an album, I use the Finao Self mount (Eements) albums:

Self mount just means that you order the prints from your own lab and then mount them in the album via…

Lightroom Targeted Adjustment Tool for Quick Saturation and Contrast Boost

This post will be partly about lens choices and partly about editing since I had a bunch of questions about both after I posted images of our Florida Trip!

First, the lenses. After debating a bit, I decided to…

Photoshop Friday: Merging two Exposures from Lightroom into Photoshop Layers

There’s been a big buzz lately on photography forums about this new OnOne software called “Perfect Layers.”  Right now it’s in Free public Beta, but they plan on releasing it with a $160 price tag.  From the marketing…

Making black fabric backrounds REALLY black in Photoshop

This is a technique that I use with all of my baby or baby and parents on black. Even though the SOOC looks like this:

It’s just a few quick steps to get that clean pure black look:…

Photoshop Tutorial: Selective Leveling

I first learned this method of improving local contrast from Damien in a thread he posted on ILP.  If you don’t already know about Damien’s blog, he’s got some really great posts and tutorials about everything from…

My Workflow from Lightroom to Photoshop

Sorry this came a few days after promised. I’ve been plagued with technical problems, from my desktop microphone failing to some bizarre issue where one part of the audio got unsynched from the video. That and the fact that I…

Lightroom 3 Week Kickoff – Free Rounded Corners Preset!

I’ve deciding that this week will be the “week of Lightroom 3″ here at becoming mom. Several things converged having to do with Lightroom this week that make it worth celebrating!

1) The imminent release  of the LR3 plugin for…

Howdy Y’all, I’ve Got Some Post Processing Tips!

Sunday I finally, FINALLY got Jasper to put on his Halloween Costume! I have the whole story up on my photography site, but let’s just say it wasn’t easy. So once he was in it, I couldn’t let…