Category Archive: Editing Images

27 Jun

Aperture and iPhoto: They Are Going Away

In a long anticipated move, Apple will cease development of Aperture, its pro photo editing application, and iPhoto. Mac’s new operating system called Yosemite and scheduled for release this fall…
June 27, 2014 at 4:04 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
24 Jun

(The Seventh of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The seventh step follows the third and sixth steps: Use collections to keep track of images for projects. Assuming you are storing your images by date and location, as discussed…
June 24, 2014 at 12:28 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
13 Jun

(The Sixth of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The sixth step is a bit more complicated than the previous ones: Use keywords to sort your images. I often see photographers sort their images by creating separate folders based…
June 13, 2014 at 10:27 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
Fifty most important shortcuts for the Library and Develop modules in Lightroom. Click to download the pdf.
08 Jun

(The Fifth of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The fifth step is a simple one: Learn the keyboard shortcuts for the functions that you use the most and, as a consequence, the ones that will save you the most…
June 8, 2014 at 2:57 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
04 Jun

Adobe Releases Camera Raw 8.5 RC and Signals Additions to Lightroom 5

Adobe has released Camera Raw 8.5 RC for public beta. While the release candidate contains the usual updates, e.g., support for new cameras and lens and bug fixes, it also…
June 4, 2014 at 12:50 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
27 May

(The Fourth of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The fourth step is a follow on to the last one: Pick a format for naming your images, rename them after deleting all the throw aways, and never, ever deviate…
May 27, 2014 at 3:45 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
16 May

(The Third of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The third step is one that you need to carefully think about before implementing it: Pick a format for your folder names and never, ever deviate from it. When you…
May 16, 2014 at 4:07 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
09 May

(The Second of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The second tip in this series on improving your Lightroom workflow is simple: Use context menus. A context menu aka contextual, shortcut, or pop-up menu is a menu in Lightroom…
May 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
29 Apr

(The First of) Ten Simple Steps to a Faster Workflow in Lightroom

The one complaint that I hear over and over from photographers is that they spend too much time in front of a computer working on images. However, I am not…
April 29, 2014 at 5:09 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment
01 Mar

Time to Transition from Capture NX to Lightroom

On Tuesday, Nikon finally released the long-lost update to Nikon Capture NX 2, Nikon’s software for editing raw images captured with its digital cameras. Now called Capture NX-D, it is…
March 1, 2014 at 10:17 pm By School of Creative Photography Leave a comment