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Lightroom and Photoshop Tutorials, Tips and Training by Laura Shoe
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Lightroom and Photoshop help, tutorials, videos, reviews and more. Home of the Digital Daily Dose blog. Workshops and classes in Seattle
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Memorial Day Sale on NOW – 15% off through Monday!

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: The Fundamentals and Beyond A Workshop on Video with Laura Shoe 15% off through Monday (10 pm PT)! 10 1/2 hours of training on 55 videos, for Mac and PC For beginning and...

24 may 12

Lightroom Quick Tip: Handy Book Module Shortcuts

When designing a book in Lightroom, I move between multi-page, spread and page view a lot. There are icons in the toolbar to select these: Toolbar View Options Multi-Page View   Spread View &nbs...

24 may 12

Upcoming Seattle Lecture and Workshop

If you’re in the Seattle area, don’t miss these two opportunities at Photographic Center Northwest coming up soon!   Lightroom Demonstration I will discuss what makes Lightroom so at...

22 may 12

Spend Your Time in Line or At the Beach Learning Lightroom!

Waiting for the light to get good so you can shoot? In line at the DMV? Relaxing on your summer vacation? Whip out your iPad, iPhone, or other MP4 video-compatible mobile device, watch my Lightroom v...

15 may 12

Don’t Forget to Keyword Those Photos! How to Keep Track of Them So You Can

As much as I like to come across to you as perfectly organized, I have to admit that I am not always as disciplined as I should be about immediately completing my keywording of photos after I import ...

15 may 12

Help – Lightroom Lost All My Photos!

This is one of the most common, and certainly the most stress-filled request I get for help. You open up Lightroom, and there is nothing there — all the photos you have imported and worked on a...

11 may 12

Ten Reasons Why Lightroom Users May Want to Buy Photoshop

Photoshop CS6 started shipping yesterday, so I anticipate that a lot of photographers not currently using Photoshop are wondering if they should consider it. I am assuming for the sake of this articl...

10 may 12

Photoshop CS6 Now Available

The Creative Suite 6, including Photoshop CS6 is now available for download or shipment. . It is available for pre-order now, though it won’t start shipping for up to 30 days. (The website R...

07 may 12

Running Out of Space? How to Move Photos to Another Hard Drive

I am running out of space on my internal hard drive, so I need to move some or all of my photographs to an external hard drive. I know I am not the only one facing this issue, as I get questions from...

03 may 12

Don’t Miss the Photo Whoa Deal on Photography E-Books from Craft and Vision!

If you are a Craft & Vision e-book fan as I am, you may be interested in this great deal from Photo Whoa — through Monday, April 30 only! 40 quality e-books for $89 — less than $2.25/...

29 apr 12

Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate #2 Available!

Adobe today released a second release candidate for Lightroom 4.1. This second release candidate has been released to the public for broader testing and feedback in advance of an official Lightroom 4...

26 apr 12

Lightroom Quick Tip: Seeing Folder Information in Grid View

Here’s a question I got this week: “I have many duplicates of photos on my hard drive and in Lightroom. If I click on All Photographs (or some subset) and sort by capture date, I can see ...

24 apr 12

Which to Buy — the Stand-Alone Photoshop CS6, or the Creative Cloud Subscription?

As I mentioned in my last post, Adobe today announced the upcoming release of both the CS6 Creative Suite, including Photoshop CS6, and Adobe’s new Creative Cloud subscription service. There ar...

23 apr 12

Adobe Announces the Upcoming Release of Photoshop CS6

Adobe announced today the upcoming official release of Creative Suite 6, including Photoshop CS6. It is available for pre-order now, though it won’t start shipping for up to 30 days. (The websi...

23 apr 12

How to Email Photos Directly from Lightroom 4

There is a new option in Lightroom 4 to email photos directly from Lightroom, rather than having to export jpegs to your hard drive, and then outside of Lightroom, attach them to your email. It has ...

13 apr 12

Updating Develop Presets for Lightroom 4

Because Lightroom 4 has different Basic Panel controls than Lightroom 3, if you have created presets in Lightroom 3 that use Basic panel controls, you may be finding that they don’t look as ex...

12 apr 12

Video Tutorial: How to Find Your Photos in Lightroom

Lightroom can perform amazingly fast searches for your photos. When I search for my winter tree photos in my catalog of over 30,000 photos, Lightroom will display the results before I can even snap m...

09 apr 12

creativeLIVE Lightroom Workshop Recording Available!

I hope you were able to catch all or part of my 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop last week on creativeLIVE! If you missed the workshop, or you want to watch it again, remember that you can purch...

06 apr 12

Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate Available

I’m a bit late in announcing this since I was busy last week with my creativeLIVE Lightroom workshop, but late last week Adobe announced the release of a Lightroom 4.1 “release candidate....

03 apr 12

Live Lightroom creativeLIVE Workshop Going On NOW!

My FREE 3-day Lightroom Fundamentals workshop with creativeLIVE started today! It runs through Saturday, 9 am (12 pm ET/4 pm GMT)- 4 pm PT . There is also a free re-broadcast at 5:00 pm PT / 8 pm ET...

30 mar 12

Listen to Canon Blogger Jason Anderson’s Podcast Interview with Me on Lightroom 4!

Check out this latest podcast from Canon blogger Jason Anderson — in it he and I discuss our favorite new features in Lightroom 4, and what we hope is ahead for Lightroom. Thank you to Jason f...

26 mar 12

Coming Thursday — A Three Day FREE Lightroom Workshop!

I am pleased and honored to announce that I will be teaching a 3-day Lightroom 4 Fundamentals workshop for creativeLIVE, Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 9 am – 4 pmPacific Time. ...

26 mar 12

Don’t Miss My Free Overview of Lightroom Webinar February 25!

Read the description for this free 90 minute overview, and register for it, on my webinar page. Don’t wait — it will fill fast!

09 feb 12

Getting Places Fast: Three Lightroom Library Quick Tips

Lightroom can really make your life easier, if you know how to ask it to. Here are a few tips for finding things or getting places quickly: You’re working with a photo or folder in Lightroom, b...

07 feb 12

Lightroom Quick Tip: Finding and Importing Photos That Aren’t Yet in Lightroom

If you have a folder in Lightroom such as your Pictures folder, but you are not sure that all of the photos in that folder and its subfolders have been imported in Lightroom, you can have Lightroom c...

01 feb 12

My Last Lightroom 4 Beta Webinar — This Weekend!

Wondering what the Lightroom 4 Beta looks like and/or how to use the new features successfully? I still have some spots left in this FREE 90 minute webinar, Saturday January 28 at 10:00 a.m. PST (6:0...

26 jan 12

Soft Proofing in Lightroom 4 with the Original Next to the Proof

(Updated 1/30/12) Soft proofing is new in the Develop module of Lightroom 4 (the Beta at this point). It allows you to get a better idea of what your photo will look like in print when printing with ...

25 jan 12

Black and White Film Is Not Dead!

To be honest, I don’t download a lot of presets from the internet. I personally have limited mental bandwidth for add-ons, and there are so many out there that they can be hard to sift throug...

18 jan 12

Recorded Lightroom 4 Beta Webinar Now Available

In this 65 minute video from my January 11 Lightroom 4 Beta webinar, I give you a tour of the new features, and explain the basics of how to use them. I wish the audio quality were better, but it is ...

16 jan 12 1 person likes this

Adobe Announces Photoshop Upgrade Pricing for CS3 and CS4 customers

In this post from November, I reported Adobe’s announcement that only customers on Photoshop CS5 would be eligible for upgrade pricing on CS6 when it comes out in the first half of this year. (...

14 jan 12

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