Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of several professional level photo editing and management tools. It is commonly compared to Apple Aperture.
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Is it possible to do non-disk-shaped clones in lightroom
Using spot removal with 100 opacity, one can "clone" little disks out of troubled images.
In a recent shot, I have a long thin line that needs cloned out. Doing this with Photoshop would be easy, ...
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How do I achieve a yellowish retro picture color?
I have always seen advertisements / pictures with colour based such as this...
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a bit yellowish / retro feeling....
How can I achieve such a picture? Is it a "camera setting" or do I ...
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How do you manage images with duplicate file names in Lightroom?
I've had my camera for about a year, and having taken 9999 images the camera's file naming system has rolled over to 0001..
I usually import my photos to Lightroom, so Lightroom sorts them into ...
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Lightroom2 import question
I downloaded my LumixLX5 images to a location on my internal hard drive and imported them to Lightroom2. The files showed up in light room's left column, pictures in the center area as I expected. ...
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How do I export RAW files from Lightroom?
If I haven't imported my RAW files into Lightroom with the sidecar files attached, how can I save/export the file so that another person can open the file and not have to re-do all my work?
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Is there a way for two users to simultaneously use the same Lightroom catalog?
I recently hired a friend to help me edit some pictures in Lightroom, but we need to use the same catalog. Is there a way for both of us to use the catalog simultaneously on two different computers, ...
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Will converting images to DNG improve post-processing performance in Lightroom?
I would like to know if converting my RAW files to DNG will improve the overall speed of Lightroom. The most painful issue is that it takes between 5 and 10 seconds to get my 1:1 image rendered when I ...
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Is there a way to export Lightroom's thumbnails whatever the resolution they are?
So, somehow I managed to erase folders containing some pictures. Now that I'm over my own stupidity, I ask, is there a way I can export Lightroom's thumbnails whatever the resolution they are?
I ...
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Can I set Lightroom's white balance picker tool to choose a supposedly white/black spot instead of neutral grey? Or should I care?
I'm correcting white balance issues for my photos in Adobe Lightroom 3. The white balance picker tool in the Develop module lets me to pick a light neutral grey spot in the picture from which ...
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Tagging people in Lightroom 3 before publishing to Facebook
I am snapping a lot of pictures and lots of them I upload to Facebook. Is there any plugin out there to tag people in my catalogs?
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How should I migrate photos so I don't lose my Lightroom edits
So I guess this is my debut question. I sure hope someone has had a similar experience.
I've been editing photos with LR 2.7 on 2 drives (a local MacBook Pro drive and an external Seagate formatted ...
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Migrating to Lightroom, how to recreate Collections from my old photo library
I am a casual photographer who is considering migrating to Lightroom.
I have my own photography library organized in folders: First, by years, then by themes. For instance:
2009
Travel to Greece
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How do I identify and track panorama photos in Lightroom 3?
I stitch together a fair number of panoramas (using AutoPano Pro) and I'd like a way to better organise them in Lightroom, in particular:
I want to mark the fact that a photo was taken as part of a ...
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What do all the settings do in Lightroom?
What do all the do all the develop settings mean in Lightroom?
For example, what does the Fill light setting do, and how does this differ from the Brightness setting?
I can of course just play ...
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How to extract thumbnail photos from Lightroom 2 catalog
My Lightroom collection has previews and catalog on local hardrive and originals on external hardrive. I've lost external hardrive, what is the easiest way to extract preview images from local ...
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How do you move a Lightroom catalog from one HD to another?
I recently got a new Hard Drive, much larger than my previous one. I'm wanting to move my entire library to the new HD, but I'm not seeing an easy way to do it. Can anyone out there offer me some help ...
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How can I create a smart collection that checks for only *one* given keyword in Lightroom 3?
I think I know my Lightroom pretty well, but I couldn't find a way to create a smart collection that returns photos containing only one given keyword. Just one. Say, all photos containing only the ...
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How can you reduce noise in Lightroom 3?
I'm seeing that Lightroom 3 has noise reduction capability, but I'm looking for a good tutorial or other in how to use it practically. Can anyone out there point me to a good tutorial, or provide one ...
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How do I fix RAW images that appear washed out in Lightroom3?
When I open raw/NEF images in Lightroom, they appear washed out as compared to viewing them in Picasa (same computer monitor). If I open JPEGs, they're fine in Lightroom.
Anyone know how to fix ...
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How can you write/convert Picasa's People tags to the EXIF data?
I use Lightroom for my workflow, and I tag photos with people's names so that I can find them faster.
Since Lightroom doesn't have the "Faces" feature, I want to use Picasa's People feature for this ...
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importing an external list of photographs to Lightroom
I have a list of photo filenames that I uploaded to Flickr before I got Lightroom, in this format:
P2000518.jpg
P2000549.jpg
P2000577.jpg
[etc.]
and I wondered: is there a way to tell Lightroom to ...
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Is there any method to transfer edits made in Lightroom to Aperture or vice versa?
I am always on the fence between Lightroom and Aperture, but I am also thinking about the future, when new software shows up. Is there any way to export edits made in one of the programs and import it ...
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Lightroom Camera Lens Motor Noise Reduction
Possibly a quick question, but I thought I heard LR3 was supposed to have a feature for reducing camera motor noise. Was I dreaming? If not, what else can I use to reduce the all of that focusing ...
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What issues should I expect in migrating from iPhoto to Lightroom?
I recently got Adobe Lightroom 3, and I'd like to migrate my iPhoto 09 library. I'd like to know the best way to do this, with the corresponding tradeoffs between fuss and feature loss.
iPhoto of ...
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Which is best as part of a fast workflow: Picasa, Lightroom, Photoshop or other?
Im looking to expand on my workflow after a shoot.
Today my workflow consists of moving images from my SD card to my computer, using Picasa in a very basic d way... (Crop, im feeling lucky and maybe ...
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What are the better HDR software apps for the mac?
I am thinking about doing some more HDR photos and thinking about the software side. I have CS5 but have never been happy about the speed or the quality of the final images. I have heard about ...
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Storing Lightroom images externally
I have just started using Lightroom 3 after hearing a lot of recommendation from others. I have imported by originals (some RAW, some jpeg) into the Lightroom catalog and it all works fine.
However, ...
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How many images can a Lightroom catalog really handle?
I read here that Lightroom V3 Catalogs can handle lots of images, but the largest database anyone mentioned was 60k. Meh! ;)
I currently have over 300k RAW + 200k JPEGs (from days long gone) clocking ...
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Is it possible to rotate an image by an arbitrary angle in Lightroom?
When I take a seascape photo by hand, I often find that I had the camera angled ever so slightly. If the picture wasn't meant to have such a perfect horizontal line (the horizon), then it wouldn't be ...
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Is there any advantage to using Photoshop and Lightroom as a team? (as opposed to PS with other library software)
I currently use Aperture 3.1 for tweaks and library management and I'm happy with it for that purpose, but I am considering buying Photoshop CS5 for more extreme editing. I was wondering if there was ...
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lightroom: how to upload photos to flickr and prevent duplicate uploads
Test case:
Collection C1 contains photos {A, B, C, D}
Collection C2 contains photos {A, C, E, F}
When I upload these from Lightroom to Flickr (whether at the same time or in separate uploads), I ...
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Filtering by multiple tags in Lightroom
Using Lightroom 2, I'm trying to filter by multiple keywords (aka tags) at once, using an AND semantic. i.e. I want to find all pictures that have all of the specified keywords.
The closest I can ...
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Resize to the photo.stackexchange.com header photo size with Lightroom
I want to submit a photo to the photo.stackoverflow.com header thread (like here). They ask for a specific image size (375x210). Is there an easy way to resize and crop an image to this size using ...
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Is there a way to decompose a Lightroom preset?
Is there a way to know, what parts is a preset made of? (e.g. to see for a given preset that it is made of "-10 Saturation" and "+20 Contrast")
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How do I duplicate images in Lightroom 3?
Hi could you please tell me how to duplicate an image in Lightroom 3 as i wish to make different looks to the one image thanks leigh-ann
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Is anyone here a NAPP member?
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals attracted my information recently. It seems a subscription provides access to the Photoshop User magazine, member-only forums and help, tutorials, ...
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How do I tag multiple photos in Lightroom?
I'm processing a batch of photos in Lightroom 3.2. They are all of a Fall nature, so I want to apply the "Fall" keyword to the lot (31 of them). When I select all of them (click, shift+click), then ...
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Is there a way to sort Lightroom images by 'edit' status?
Usually my workflow involves 'picking/flagging' photos to edit and leaving the rest alone (RAW files that is). However, sometimes I jump right in and start editing before rating/picking. In that ...
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Why does opening photos in Windows preview result in a yellowish tint?
I have a weird case wich I expect someone can solve. I have edited some photos in Lightroom and exported them to Flickr. When I download them in another computer and open them in the Windows Preview ...
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How do you change from portrait to landscape in Lightroom?
I have a picture that I shot in landscape (4x6 ratio) that I want to crop to portrait (5x7 ratio). I see how I can do a 5x7 landscape or a 4x6 portrait, but not a 5x7 portrait.
How do you do this?
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Is there a way to search by aspect ratio in Lightroom?
Is there a way to add useful aspect-ratio search to Lighroom?
The present interface (LR 3.2) gives only 3 options: Landscape, Portrait and Square.
Those seem more like orientations than aspect-ratios ...
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What are your best tips, tricks or formulas for Lightroom's Smart Collections?
I use a few Smart Collections in Lightroom to automatically let me see things like all of my finished HDR images, sets of images uploaded to SmugMug or Flickr, and the like, but I'm curious what other ...
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List of Adobe Lightroom resources
I'd like to make a list of Adobe Lightroom resources. Blogs, sites, tutorials,... Anything worth taking a look at.
Thanks.
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Is there a more affordable program than Lightroom?
I recently purchased a Sony Alpha a33 and was told Lightroom was the only way to go for photo editing. My photography right now is purely of our brand new baby right now, so I won't be profiting from ...
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How do you use catalogs in Lightroom? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best practices with Lightroom libraries
Or perhaps, how do you organize your photos in Lightroom 3?
I got a feeling that the way I do it is not very convenient.
The ...
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Can I stop Lightroom from creating a TIFF file when exporting to Photoshop?
My wife does some photography on the side for a hobby. She uses Lightroom for most of her editing and she also uses the "Edit In Photoshop" option as well. I have no idea why she has to go to PS, ...
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Lightroom upgrade from a student licence
I'm thinking of buying Adobe Lightroom through a student licence. Will I be able to buy an upgrade licence when I'm not longer a student? Or will I have to buy the full licence?
Thanks.
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Filtering by date in Lightroom
In Lightroom 3, using the metadata filter with one of the columns set to Date in hierarchical mode, I can easily narrow down the date range. I can easily get all photos from 2010, or all October 2010 ...
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Does the number of smart collections affect Lightroom's performance?
While mucking around in Lightroom today and setting up some smart collections, I wondered if having a large number of smart collections might negatively impact performance? I'm thinking that ...
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Is there an Aperture equivalent for Windows, or do I need to use both Picasa and Lightroom?
As much as I'd like to work with Aperture, my main machine runs Windows (I only have a Macbook, no desktop Mac). For now, I have been using jointly Picasa and Lightroom for my photo management and ...
