In this short tutorial Mike Walen shows you how to download a preset from the internet and install it in to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. The demonstration uses Mike’s famous Bright Portrait (Indoor) preset. You can download the preset used in the demonstration for free from the KeyImagery.com website: www.keyimagery.com

www.slrlounge.com To navigate quickly through Lightroom, it is important to memorize the various interface shortcuts, especially the more basic ones. In this video, we are going to cover the basic interface shortcuts which will get you where you need to go in Lightroom in a jiffy. While you may not be able to memorize these shortcuts in a single pass, come back and review this video from time to time. Review along with practice, will help you to internalize all of these shortcuts.

www.slrlounge.com Stacking in Lightroom is another way of grouping photos into neat little groups, similar to how you might stack images into groups on your desk. Stacking can be a very useful feature, depending on your workflow preferences. In this video, we are going to cover how to stack your images, quickly navigate through stacks by expanding/collapsing them, as well as modifying and managing your stacks. Enjoy!

froknowsphoto.com For this weeks photo of the week I chose an image I captured a little while ago of a band named Halestorm. The band member in the image is Josh the bass player. He was preparing to go on stage to kick off the show and was just hanging around just behind the stage. These are the type of photos I like to capture, the ones where its just me on stage in a place where other photographers are not. I say it all the time, if you can get out of the pit and away from the other photographers you will get something different. It is funny how I ended up on stage and back stage for this concert. I originally did not have back stage access but ended up just climbing on stage before the show started. One of my friends was guitar teching the show came over said hey come on up il introduce you to the band. The more people you get to know at shows the easier it becomes to get access to places you want to go. This photo is another prime reason why it is a bad practice to delete photos from the camera opposed to when you are sitting in front of the computer. There are so many times where I see the image on the 3 inch screen and go oh this isn’t anything special than see it on the computer and go BOOOM WOW thats awesome. The only time I will delete from the camera is if I missed my focus and its out by a lot. As you can see in the video this image went from a hazy color to a killer black and white in a few lightroom tweaks. Anytime you have a hazy background or smoke or fog …

www.slrlounge.com We have covered the basics of the import dialog box. Now, it is time to go over the import actions, as well as all of the different import settings in detail. In this Lightroom video tutorial, we will discuss the remaining import options. Choose our final import settings, then import our images into our working catalog. Once again, be sure to either have your own set of images ready, or download the exercise files for this tutorial series below. Enjoy!
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Basic Image Enhancement with Lightroom 3.3 1. Crop & Straighten 2. Basic tools palette (basic image enhancement) 3. Graduated filter controls 4. Adjustment Brush (How to) 5. Spot removal
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This tutorial starts with the basics and explains a little bit of the why and how of color correction a little more in-depth than my other videos. Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me See more tips, tricks and product reviews online at www.ModifiedPhotoGraphics.com
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Many people have asked me how to import the presets they download from presetsheaven.com into Adobe Lightroom. This video shows the simple steps that are needed to do this in Lightroom 2. Cheers. Depending on from where you download a preset, the file can be compressed into ex. .zip or .rar. All presets that are downloaded from presetsheaven.com needs to be extracted/unzipped before they can be imported into lightroom. A compressed file can contain more than one preset/file. This might be the case for you. Windows: If you’re on a newer version of Windows you simply double-click the file to extract the included files. MAC: Double-click the file to extract it Don’t know what a preset is? Check out my site www.presetsheaven.com and you’ll understand. Still have questions? Join: www.facebook.com/presetsheavencom and/or www.twitter.com/presetsheaven

Have you wanted to learn to customize and build your own Lightroom Presets? When you find a look you love, you can save it for later. Watch and learn how. www.mcpactions.com

A quick technique to simulate some of the effects we get when using a polarizer. Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw techniques are shown.

froknowsphoto.com I started to make edits on these photos than figured i should record it so you can get a feel for my mind set when tweaking the files. There is a killer tip at 5 min on exposure.

In this video tutorial we will go over briefly how Lightroom 3′s database works and what you need to know about it. Then we will discuss some prep work, such as folder organization options and importing for the first time. More videos here: jhpvideotutorials.com

Watch the entire course at www.lynda.com In Lightroom 3 New Features, photographer and author Chris Orwig explores the enhancements that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 brings to each phase of the photographic workflow—from importing and editing, to exporting and publishing. This course details Lightroom 3′s new importing and asset-management features and its significant improvements in the Develop module, including enhanced sharpening and noise reduction. Chris also shows how Lightroom 3 broadens output options, and shares workflow tips and advice for upgrading Lightroom 2 catalogs and working with images processed in earlier Lightroom versions.
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