Adobe Lightroom Classic

This update introduces additional organizational enhancements including new options for Smart Collections, Metadata filters, and Sort criteria.  

In this video produced by Tim Robbins and Snap Happy: the Photography Show, I share some of my techniques for capturing intentional motion blur from a moving car and present tips for processing these images in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Here are fifteen of my favorite tips for working with Catalogs in Lightroom Classic.

With the help of artificial intelligence, Lightroom Classic can automatically generate a synthetic depth map based on the content of an image, enabling photographers to change the focus plane and quickly create a “narrow” or “shallow” depth of field in an image. The video below demonstrates how to use Lens Blur, apply a Bokah effect, visualize and customize the Depth Map, and use the Refinement brush.

Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera Raw, and Lightroom now support a true end-to-end workflow for capturing, importing, viewing, editing, and sharing images with High Dynamic Range information on High Dynamic Range monitors.

The new Point Color feature in Lightroom Classic enables more powerful and precision color editing than even before. In the video below you’ll learn how to use Point Color to make adjustments both globally as well as when masking based an all three dimensions (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity). While Point Color is designed to be easy to use (you can simply sample a color and start making adjustments!), this video also covers the difference between Point Color and Color Mixer as well as how to adjust the Range sliders to achieve the exact color adjustments that you’re after.

Lightroom Classic (v12.4) includes several updates and enhancements to masking and editing including adding selective grain, refining saturation when using the Tone Curve, Process Version updates, and HSL and Color Panel visualization options.

Lightroom Classic (v12.3) introduces Denoise, Masking updates, new Edit-In Photoshop options and more! 

In the video below, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create a beautiful book using Lightroom Classic’s Book Module. 
In addition, below are some of my favorite tips, tricks and shortcuts  for quick reference.

Here are my favorite tips and shortcuts for working with presets in Lightroom Classic’s Develop module.

Watch this video (or view the tips and shortcuts below) to discover how to use the Clone, Heal, and Content-Aware Remove healing modes in Lightroom Classic to quickly remove dust spots, imperfections and distracting elements in a photograph.

Following are several tips, tricks and shortcuts  for working in the Slideshow module in Lightroom Classic.

n this video, we’ll walk through 12 ways to use presets (and templates) in Lightroom Classic to help automate your workflow, avoid repetitive tasks, and avoid making costly mistakes. 

Here are my favorite videos, shortcuts, and tips for printing from Lightroom Classic.