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Lightroom

Lightroom Tutorial | How to Make Beautiful Black & White Photos

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Black and white photos are great because you can enhance what you love about the photo and hide what you don’t.  In today’s tutorial, you will learn how Lightroom makes it easy and fun to create striking black and white images. Here’s my example:

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How To Adjust Exposure in Lightroom {Tutorial}

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Written by: Jessica Paige of One Willow Presets.  Edits done with a RAW image in the Develop Module of Lightroom 3. Editing photos in Lightroom can be very quick and simple. I hope you enjoy these step-by-step instructions on how I adjust the exposure in my photos.  

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How To Add a Watermark in Lightroom

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I know the vast majority of you use Photoshop, but there are a few of us who also use Lightroom. So over the course of 2011, I’m going to work on creating a few tutorials especially for Lightroom users. Now, if you have created your watermark {using this tutorial}, you might be wondering how to [...]

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Pondering Lightroom vs. Photoshop

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Written by: Susan Keller I’m often asked, “Lightroom OR Photoshop?” I invariably answer, “BOTH!” Both of these amazing pieces of software are part of my daily photographic life. Here’s how my personal usage of each breaks down:

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Fix-It Friday #66 • Photo Editing Fun!

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It’s Fix-It Friday, a weekly event where our contributors edit the same photo and readers can join the fun by editing their own and linking to the party! Today we’ll be using a photo that Angie captured during a session with two amazing little twin boys.  :) {Edit above by Keli Hoskins.} We love our contributor’s [...]

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Lightroom – Quick Tips for Organizing Your Photos

by Jessica Paige of One Willow Studios To continue learning even more about Lightroom, be sure to join our “Lightroom Lovers” group in our FREE Community Network. There are always amazing conversations going on over there! How To Make The Sorting Process Easier in Lightroom 2: To keep or not to keep, the big dilemma [...]

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Fix-It Friday #88 | Susan Keller’s Tutorial

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Written by: Susan Keller from Susan Keller Photography Software Used: Lightroom 3.1 (LR) Actions/Presets/Textures Used: One Willow Presets (OW) A completely lovely portrait of Angie’s completely lovely daughter!!! Not much to “fix” here, but a perfect picture to show off Jessica’s fabulous Lightroom presets. I pulled this image into Lightroom and applied these 12 presets [...]

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Fix-It Friday #73 – Keli Hoskins’s Tutorial

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I apologize for my absence in the past few Fix-It Fridays … I delivered our baby girl (Lucy Jane) 6 weeks ago, and things have been a little crazy since then. But I am ready to jump back in and am always happy to work on pictures of my other girl. My not-so-baby girl. *sob* [...]

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