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Howto use Lightroom Develop
Rick Walker (walkerr)
Photographers who are new to Lightroom, or who haven't had a lot of time can use these tips to improve their workflow and results. Read more...

A Custom Approach to Panoramas with Lightroom
Mike Hagen (Mike_Hagen)
Panorama photography can be a very rewarding experience, it really is a lot of fun. However, to get it done correctly can become very tricky at times. Even the best tools may not be very efficient, depending on how you made your individual photographs. Mike Hagen had to come up with a custom approach for his series of images, combining both Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. Here is how. Read more...

Smoke & Bubbles Photography
Geoff Baylis (GBaylis)
Is your artistic side craving for a challenging photography project? This comprehensive guide to photograph smoke and bubbles by Nikonian Geoff Baylis (GBaylis) may be what you need, especially when confined indoors during the winter. Read more...

Seven Things I Learned by Photographing 500 People
Mike Hagen (Mike_Hagen)
Whether you will be photographing a single person or group or many, you will benefit from this article where Nikonians Academy Director Mike Hagen tells us the seven most important things he has learned, after doing it more than a few times. Read more...

Speeding up your workflow – Lightroom and Camera Raw Defaults
Rick Walker (walkerr)
For those of us with little time for post-processing, or wanting to speed-up our workflow, Rick Walker suggests setting up defaults, to avoid repetition of steps and to start with a better looking image than as delivered by your camera, when using Lightroom and/or Camera raw Read more...

Digital Tidbits: Three Methods for Post-Processing Greens
Mike Hagen (Mike_Hagen)
For most photographs of nature, the color green is essential to the overall impact and believability of the image. If the greens look good, then the rest of the photo is believable. In this article, Mike Hagen (Mike_Hagen) will show you three ways for achieving believable greens using a variety of software tools. Read more...

How to Fill In Missing Pixels From Panorama Stitches
Mike Hagen (Mike_Hagen)
Panoramas are a lot of fun not only because of the pleasing visual effect but also because of the challenges they may represent to get it right. One of such challenges is missing pixels while stitching together the images made. Mike Hagen shows us how to go about it without much hassle. Read more...

What is Lightroom? Is it necessary in my workflow?
Yvonne Berger (Yvonne_BergerBros)
What is Adobe Lightroom? Would this program benefit my overall workflow? Find out how to manage, edit, and convert your photos quickly and easily, with Lightroom. It's a basic program that sometimes gets overlooked. For those minor fixes, but in a quantified amount, you just might have your go-to fixer-picker-upper! Read more...

Better Black and White Images in Lightroom
Josh Larkin (tonupbandit)
A guide to producing better black and white images in Lightroom. If you're going black and white with any photograph, the end result can be made stronger by doing things yourself and not just letting your software decide how to create the tones and contrast that ultimately make for a powerful black and white image. Read more...

Bookshelf 14: Digital Photography
Bo Stahlbrandt (bgs)
Here you find various recommended books on Digital Imaging, Printing & Software. Read more...

Adobe Digital Workflow Series
George M (NikonGeorge)
This series of 72 articles contains useful hints, tips, and tutorials on using Adobe Lightroom Beta and Adobe Photoshop CS2 to manage and edit your digital photography. Read more...
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