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Remove lightroom from second monitor
The Dual Monitor mode is activated by the Second Window button.
To close the second window just click this button again.
More on Adobe help page.
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How can I open .CR2 files from a Canon 750D in Lightroom 3 when I can't afford the monthly cost of the new Lightroom?
Support for Canon 750D camera need Lightroom version 6 (check this document)
You can continue using LR 3, but before open RAW files you need to convert them to DNG with this software for example (its ...
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How does the usual jpeg 0-100 quality settings translate into Photoshop's 0-12 quality setting?
There is not a direct correspondance between standard JPEG quality 1-100 and Photoshop 0-12. The only thing they have in common is that to a bigger number usually corresponds to better quality.
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What are the main differences between editing with Adobe Lightroom vs Adobe Spark?
Adobe Lightroom is a streamlined photo processing and organizing software. Adobe Spark is a tool for visual storytelling on the web.
Here's a comparison of the respective pro's and con's:
Adobe ...
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Turn off syncing in Lightroom CC
You are using the wrong software, as the basic concept of Lightroom CC on all platforms is based on syncing everything to the cloud.
If you want do have an offline Workflow, you need to use Lightroom ...
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How can I open .CR2 files from a Canon 750D in Lightroom 3 when I can't afford the monthly cost of the new Lightroom?
Even though the files from your 750D are in the .cr2 format, the data in a raw file is always sensor specific. That is, each different sensor design must be demosaiced/converted differently to get the ...
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500px and Adobe Stock pay just with PayPal or had another option?
According to 500px.com's payout support article, it appears the only digital payment service they currently support is PayPal:
We can send payments via the following (please note that options vary ...
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Automation of culling process
If I understood your question correctly, you are looking for a tool to reduce the time spent during the culling process.
You can use software like FilterPixel to cull your photos automatically. (Full ...
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Why doesn't Adobe DNG converter recognize files from my new camera?
What you need to do is to upgrade your version of Adobe DNG Convertor. The reason is camera vendors make slight changes in RAW formats of (almost) every new camera they release. And Adobe every ...
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How can I open .CR2 files from a Canon 750D in Lightroom 3 when I can't afford the monthly cost of the new Lightroom?
Another alternative would be to use one of the open source programs such as Raw Therapee. There is a bit of a learning curve but the latest versions have become much more intuitive and are definitely ...
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Lightroom catalog cannot be opened because another application already has it opened
Have you checked on Google? This was the first result:
Solution: Delete the catalog lock file
To resolve this issue, do the following:
Close the Lightroom application.
Go to the folder where your ...
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Why are my new Canon 80D RAW files are unreadable on my computer and on Photoshop CS5?
For very old versions of Lightroom or Photoshop to support newer cameras Adobe recommends to convert native, proprietary RAW files to DNG format.
Snippet from an Adobe support page
What if I own ...
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What colour space does Adobe Lightroom use when displaying photographs outside of the Develop module?
Lightroom uses ProPhotoRGB/Melissa only in Develop module. The rest of the app apparently uses AdobeRGB.
With regards to the brightness of those three images, I took the ProPhoto version and ...
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Can Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4 marked as "Distribute in US only", be activated anywhere in the world?
The only way to know is to try. Some people have reported success, but Adobe policies and procedures may change in the future.
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Why are my new Canon 80D RAW files are unreadable on my computer and on Photoshop CS5?
You most probably need to update Camera Raw. This is the component that allows Photoshop and Lightroom to read raw files from various cameras. It exists separately because otherwise they'd have to ...
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Post-processing software - which one and why?
Partial answer only (no experience with photoshop c.s.):
Darktable and RawTherapee are both "global" editors for raw files. With that I mean that all operations work on the whole image (or on rather ...
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Does Adobe's Creative Cloud let me keep full local copies of all my files?
Yes, you always have full local copies of all of your originals. CC can sync to their cloud, and keep other clients (mobile, other PCs, etc.) in sync, but you are in complete control of that. You do ...
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adobe lightroom import photo more red than original
The 'Library' tab is likely using the jpeg preview generated in-camera and attached to the raw file.
The develop module is probably reinterpreting the raw data based upon your choice for default ...
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Corrupted Files
The behavior you are seeing is totally consistent with corrupted RAW files. These files contain a JPEG preview, which is what you are seeing a) in the image viewer software and b) when the RAW files ...
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Sync photos in Adobe Lightroom CC
I'm assuming Lightroom Classic for this...
Synchronisation services are not backup services or offline storage services. Many people make the same mistake with such as iCloud.
A synchronisation ...
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Sync photos in Adobe Lightroom CC
In Lightroom CC's preferences, go to "Local Storage", where you can select how much you want it to save locally to your computer. The dialog looks like this:
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Automation of culling process
You do not need plugin for this purpose. Moreover current level of software/AI is not enough to "say" which image is good which is bad.
The method I use is sample and quite strait. You select Survey ...
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ColorSync found bad profile on Mac. What are the possible side effects?
It looks to me like the desc tags are not used for any functionality. They are mainly for having a human-readable description of what's in the profile. According to ...
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How can I open .CR2 files from a Canon 750D in Lightroom 3 when I can't afford the monthly cost of the new Lightroom?
Look at the supported camera models and you will see, that the files of the Canon 750D are not supported. You will need a newer Lightroom/Adobe Camera Raw module to open these files.
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Use Google Photos Cloud instead of Adobe CC for Lightroom CC Storage
Dude, buy a NAS and pay only one time for tons of storage that you'll own forever.
Imports to LR will be slower over a wireless network but that never really bothered me. All of these ridiculous ...
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Are Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic independant but able to easily share photos?
Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC can inter-operate, but with some restrictions.
Classic is a more sophisticated editor; many of its features are not yet in CC, even though they share the same ACR ...
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How do Adobe Smart Previews work?
The smart preview is not the RAW file. It is a preview of the RAW file to see the effects of your edit. The only thing it is used for is to have something to see while you do the edits. It is not ...
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Adobe Lightroom marks photos as modified without any user interaction
There are a number of possible causes of this.
One can be changes to metadata, not images (and you have some control over this in each publishing setup). These changes can in fact be indirect, for ...
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Is Photosop slowing/crashing on my box a workflow issue or a computer issue?
Yes. This is normal behaviour.
If you use multiple layers, each time you create a new layer and edit that layer, it stores a whole copy of that layer rather than just modifying the existing layer. So ...
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Reverse Engineer this processing in lightroom
Add some vignetting, clarity, and selectively desaturate or just desaturate.
Obviously your equipment is going to hold you back. These images were shot with an extremely advanced state of the art ...
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