Showing posts with label adobe lightroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adobe lightroom. Show all posts

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Glamour Edit - How To

Basical Glamour Edit / How-To:

1) Image capture in RAw
2) import to adobe lightoom
3) Focus on image quality corrections:
a) Correct for exposure and coloring (exposure slider, curvers, brightness, shadows, highlights)
b) Enable profile corrections for your lens that you used.
c) Tilt / Crop the photo to make it straight.
d) Reduce the noise in the photo if necessary.
4) Blemish Correction:
a) Remove skin blemishes, color patches, scars, etc with the spot remover tool.
b) Remove excess moles if that is what you want to do.
5) If you want to spend more time on the photo and get that last 10% out of the images, select edit in photoshop.
6) Edit in photoshop essentially repeating the above with emphasis on the following:
a) Eye whiteness
b) Lip and pupil color enhancement
c) Hair color
d) Large skin blemishes that were not in spot form.
7) Try a couple of creative things to see if they enhance the image such as black and white.
8) Sharpen and save.



MOre detail here: http://creativeoutletimages.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Adobe Lightroom Tip #1 – Where is my missing thumbnail zoom slider?

This one is a personal frustration point with Lightroom that seems to happen every 6 months or so.  When in the library mode the lower bar that allows you zoom the size of your thumbnails disappears.  This same bar also has the functinality to sort thumbnails by capture time, file type, etc.
Fix = Go to the “view” menu and then do “show toolbar”.   Such an easy fix for a point of frustration.
You can also zoom the thumbnails by hitting “+” and “-” on the keyboard.
Adobe version number currently used for this posting = 3.4

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Adobe Lightroom 3.4 Performance

I'm loving the new features of Lightroom 3.2 and greater, but I'm really struggling with the performance.
Observations:
1)  Don't leave lightroom open on your computer for very long.  Shut it down and restart it when you need to pickup work again.
2)  Do clear out your image cache every once in a while.
3)  Usually smaller catalogs when you can, but I have to say I don't like this one.