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Use Enable Painting to speed up Image Editing
A little used function of Lightroom is “Enable Painting” which can be found under the Metadata main menu item. Enable Paining will activate the Spraycan mouse cursor as well as a series of Paintable...
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Quickly Change Lightroom Thumbnail Size
When I change the size of the thumbnails in Lightrooms grid view I usually use the slider on the Toolbar. This is ok, but often either the toolbar is not visible or I have turned off the display of...
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Use the Lightrooms Recently Used Folders Option
There is a very handy quick list of Lightroom recently used folders which can be found at the top left hand side of the Filmstrip. Information on the selected photos will be displayed by default but if...
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New Lightroom 3 beta released
If you have not seen it already then check out the new Lightroom 3 beta. The new beta has the following: Noise reduction Watermarking Portable sharable slideshows with audio Flexible customizable print...
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Three things I like about Lightroom beta 3
The new Lightroom beta 3 has some significant new functionality but I don’t think it warrants a new 3.0 version. It seems to be more of an upgrade to the already very capable Lightroom 2.5. Here what I...
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Easily switch between Portrait and Landscape Crop tool
If you use the crop tool with a fixed aspect – such as 4×6 – you will have noticed that it is not easy to quickly switch between portrait and landscape cropping modes. You have to select custom and...
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Correct Multiple Images in Lightroom Grid Mode
Lightroom makes it really easy to apply the same edit to multiple images. You could do this to increase the exposure of a whole sequence of under exposed shots. The same method can be used to adjust...
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Aperture 3 keeps me firmly a Lightroom User
I am sure we are all eagerly awaiting the new version of Lightroom, but as we wait I will be one of the first to admit that I have been tempted by Aperture 3. Having used Aperture 3 – and yes it is the...
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Lightroom beta 3 – Reset Selective Adjustments
Lightroom 3 adds a much better way to reset both the Graduated Filter and Selective Adjustment tools. In Lightroom 2 you have to reset each individual slider within the tool. All you do now is double...
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Lightroom Filters no longer ‘sticky’
Update … Note – It turns out – thanks to Rick’s comment – that the filter will stick to any subsequent folder you choose. Not as I have described below … In Lightroom 2 when you applied a filter to a...
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