When you open an image in the Develop Module, you can see that some sliders have presets. Since they sort of work for me, I have not taken the time to find out if I can change those settings. My flow is influenced by my habit of just going back in the develop history instead…
Color Treatment
In the Develop Module, the sliders Vibrance and Saturation sit right next to each other, yet have very different effects on the image, which sometimes can be subtle and sometimes drastic. Vibrance gets applied in a curve. It affects already saturated areas the least and dull areas the most. Saturation gets applied equally to all…
LR Virtual Copy #2
In my first LR Virtual Copy post, I referred to the possibility to editing for mood / weather. I want to show an example with one of my images. First, I edited the original. When I was satisfied with it, I made a virtual copy of it. Then, I gently pulled the clarity slider to…
Folders, Coding and Keywords
I have folders for my images on both the external hard drive and in LR. On the hard drive, the Raw images are sorted under either shoots by year and month, by trip, or subject. The “shoots” folder contains the mix of images taken during that particular month. In LR any new images are imported…
Import and Image Selection
In the beginning, while still learning much about editing photos, I decided to keep an untouched version of the image files. Today, I still do a dual import: one to an external hard drive and the other into LR where I can be ruthless in the selection of images. Knowing I can go back any…
General Information
In sharing my personal workflow, I want to invite you to think about your current workflow, to analyze it, to experiment a bit and, in the end, decide to either stay with your method or to make adjustments that streamline it for your needs. I will not go into descriptions of how to import, how…
LR Virtual Copy
LR has the wonderful feature of a virtual copy. Sometimes, while editing an image, I wonder which might result in the better photo. I can go back in the history and choose a point where I am still clear about my process, create a virtual copy and then continue with the differing ways of editing….
Clarity Slider
I have a tendency to sometimes play around with an image to see what happens if …. In one of these instances, I discovered a cool application of the Clarity slider. Here is an image that I edited in my usual way: The setting for the Clarity Slider is +92 on the above image. When…
General information about my style of editing
I use Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 for my editing. Generally, I keep it to a minimum. Currently, I do no composting, that means taking parts of one image and pasting it into another. I see this often done with the moon. I grant that it can make an image very dramatic, yet…