When your model is backlit, you can use these neat lighting tricks.

Using Lightroom keyboard shortcuts are a great way to speed up your workflow and give you more time to spend on other important things like taking photos! Download your cheat sheet via the link and either print it out and display it near your computer or store it on your smartphone and access it anytime. Download it here.

No light modifier? No worries! Make your own using a paper bag.

How to improve an image in 10 seconds using the shadow and highlight sliders in Lightroom. If I was ever going to nominate a Lightroom adjustment employee of the week, it would definitely be a tie between the highlights and shadow sliders in the develop module. In this tutorial I show you how to radically improve your images using these sliders and why you should step away from the exposure slider.

In this tutorial, you'll get a unique insight into how Gina works and learn tricks you can apply to your own photography.

  “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci   I can still remember exactly where I was when I first experienced the amazing raw file processing software called Lightroom. Like most groovy new trends, I wasn’t an early adopter. I’d heard many of my colleagues rave about Lightroom like it was the greatest thing since Nutella on bread, but I still had some reservations… I didn’t have time to learn a whole new system. Lightroom looked complicated and Photoshop did everything I needed just fine. Then I tried it and life as I knew it changed forever *cue epic movie soundtrack*. That was a defining moment in my life that will be played in my highlights reel, in between first kiss and first jar of Nutella. I was hooked within minutes of using it. Using Lightroom felt like home. Lightroom understood me. Lightroom had me at “hello.”...

Doing a long-distance shoot presents a whole new set of challenges which you may not have thought of.

Here are my top time-saving Lightroom shortcuts to speed up your workflow. In this tutorial I’ll show you: how to quickly select images using auto advance mode. the best way to use Lightroom if you are working on a laptop. the quickest way to undo mistakes. how to view before and after images. how to switch between modules and access my favorite tools.