Jared Platt’s Adobe Lightroom - Photography Podcast

Using a Secondary Display in Lightroom

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:31:58 -0700

Using a secondary display in Lightroom will cut your post productions work time down and it will make the experience far more enjoyable.

For more podcasts and lessons on Lightroom, go to jaredplattworkshops.com.

Using XMP Sidecar Files to sync Lightroom, Bridge and Photoshop Camera RAW

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:34:22 -0700

This Lightroom lesson explains how to use XMP data to allow a synchronous interaction between Lightroom, Bridge and Photoshop Camera RAW.

For more podcasts and lessons on Lightroom, go to jaredplattworkshops.com.

Lightroom 3.0 New Features

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:28:40 -0700

Lightroom 3.0 has a lot of great new features. These are my favorite features and how I use them. But the best feature of all is the feature you will never see, you will just feel it and that is the speed. Lightroom 3.0 is so much faster and smoother than ever before.

For more podcasts and lessons on Lightroom, go to jaredplattworkshops.com.

Lightroom Split Toning Color Images

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 00:07:41 -0700

The Split Tone options in Adobe Lightroom are too often used only for split toning a black and white image. Many people overlook their very valuable use on color images. In this video I explain my methods for using split toning in black and white and in color images.

For more podcasts and lessons on Lightroom, go to jaredplattworkshops.com.

Lightroom Catalog Portability and Syncing

Mon, 24 May 2010 09:05:10 -0700

You may have two or more computers, or be working with a post production company like ShootDotEdit for your post production on your images, but whatever the reason, you will need to know how to synchronize your catalogs from one computer to the next. This catalog portability will allow you to share your work load between computers, locations and people. In this 20 minute lesson, you will learn how to synchronize your images and catalogs from one computer to the next and even between Lightroom and Camera Raw in Photoshop.

Making Custom Vignettes in Lightroom

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:41:43 -0700

Lightroom has some great vignette controls both lens correction and post crop vignettes, but neither of them create anything extremely customizable of interesting. If you would like to do something a little more involved with Adobe Lightroom when creating your vignettes, I have some advice for you. So here is a how to video on creating custom vignettes in Lightroom.

Lightroom - Making Effective Develop Presets

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:15:36 -0700

There are many places to download and purchase develop presets for Lightroom. I even sell them. But you can also make your own. The question is, how do you make an effective develop preset? I’ll teach you how to make a preset in a rational way. I also talk about my presets that I have made here, which you can download on my web site.

This is a long one! It’s over 20 minutes, but it’s worth the time.

Lightroom - Using More Screen Realestate

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:48:26 -0700

When you are working on your images in Lightroom there are many things on your screen that can distract you from your main purpose: editing photographs. Lightroom has a number of buttons and keyboard shortcuts to help you remove those distractions and bring them back instantaneously when needed . Because photography is actually about the images, not the tools, stop allowing the tools to distract you from your images.

Lightroom Overview

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:35:51 -0700

Today I will introduce you to the various modules in Adobe Lightroom. If you have used Lightroom before, this won’t be anything new to you, but it is important to review this for those who are new to Lightroom. Future Podcasts will go into details on each module and methods for using them. Enjoy.

Speeding Up Your Lightroom Database

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:15:46 -0700

This is the first of the Light Room Podcast. It is from Lightroom 1.3, but the lesson still holds true, so I have left it up.