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This post concludes the round of 3 printing tips in LR. The 1st post was “printing with a color background“; the 2nd was “adding a graphic overlay on your print” and this one “printing a drop-shadow under your LR print“. Read more…

In the last post I talked about printing with a color background in Lightroom. In this post, I will discuss printing with a graphic overlay such as a client logo or event title. For this example, I will continue with a Holiday theme overlay.
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A quick Holiday Post, the time for shopping is getting short…

Recently a photographer switching to Lightroom [LR] asked if he could print on a black background with a white border as he did in Photoshop [PS]. Well, the answer was, “Of Course – Easier and Quicker!”
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In the last post I wrote about LR’s Graduated Filter. The other localized editing tool, which many think might be the most significant addition to LR2, is the Adjustment Brush [AB]. The AB (keyboard shortcut “K” in your program) allows you to “paint” localized non-destructive effects like Exposure, Saturation, Sharpness, etc. You can then change or add parameters to the selected area and fine tune the effect to your image. Read more…

We all have come to love Lightroom’s new Graduated Filter [GF] tool. (That’s keyboard shortcut “M” in your program.)  A common use of this filter is to affect the sky, very similar to photographing using split filters… adding blue to enhance the sky; adding orange to create or enhance a sunset; adding Neutral Density (-exposure) to darken or balance out a bright sky in our photograph; etc. Read more…