Everyone can be a Pro - part 2

This is part 2 of my article called “Everyone can be a Pro”. Read part 1

Step one to success - Digital cameras and big memory cards
Get a big memory card for your camera. In the old days you had to think carefully when to press the button or not. You had to make a choice if the motive in front of you was worthy enough to be put in an album or not. After all you just had 24 or 36 frames per film roll. Read more

Everyone can be a Pro - part 1

With a digital camera and Lightroom, everyone can be a pro.
Ever wanted to take those fantastic photos you see in magazines or on professional photographers’ websites? Well now you can. All you need is a good digital camera, a big memory card and suitable software like Adobe Lightroom. Read more

Tutorial:How to put image stamps in your photos with Lightroom.

Did you know you can put image stamps on your photos directly from Lightroom? A photographer usually put his logo stamp on all his images to mark them as a part of his/her work. This is often done using a pre-made Photoshop action but I will tell you how to do it within Lightroom instead to save some production time. Read more

Tutorial: How to remove spots on multiple photos

Yesterday I posted a tutorial article about how you easily can remove dust spots from your photos. It didn’t take long time before someone asked me how they should do if they have like hundreds of photos with the same pattern of dust-spots. So here comes part two of “how to remove spots with the spot removal tool in Lightroom 2.” Read more

Tutorial: Remove unwanted spots in photos…

Lightroom is not like Photoshop but it’s a great tool if you just want to make small retouching of your photos. A perfect use for this is when you want to remove spots or small things in your photos that might disturb the eye. One common thing to do in the digital world is to remove “dust spots”. These spots often become visible if you change lenses on your camera in a non-clean environment. They get trapped in your camera house and after that, all your photos will have the spots on them. Read more

Tutorial: How to change the “Identity plate” in Lightroom 2

Maybe you didn’t know this, but you can customize the Identity plate in Lightroom. This way your software look really professional when you’re in the studio showing your clients the result of the photo session. As default you see the Lightroom logo as the identity plate, but this can easily be changed to either custom text or image. Read more

6 good tips how to organize all your digital photos

We all have our special ways of organizing things in life, don’t we?

Before the digital camera came to our world, everyone put their photos in albums. By that time most of us took 24 or 36 shoots before we sent in the photo rolls for process. Those were the days… But now when everyone is using a digital cam, we have an overflow of photos on our hard drives. I’ve come up with a technique that works for me and it might work for you too… Read more

Tutorial: How to import presets into Adobe Lightroom

Some people has contact me and asked me how they manage to “install” the presets they download, into Lightroom 2. It’s not that hard really. A few simple clicks and you´re set to go for the effects. The best way to describe this is simply by showing you a screencast i just made a few minutes ago. Grab a handful of popcorn cause that’s all you can eat before the movie has ended Read more

The 1st thing to do when a preset makes your photo look strange…

Ever wondered why your images doesn’t look as good as in the preview image for a particular preset? Well there might be an easy solution to it. Most presets you find, have been created for high resolution images like the RAW-format etc. A common thing to do when making these Lightroom presets is to apply various amount of “Sharpen”. Most of the time this value is set to 25 or higher (for high resolution images). Now that number is directly related to the image resolution. Read more