Category Archives: 2 – Develop
Getting used to the PV2012 Develop Sliders?
The Lightroom 4 beta was released just over a week ago. Are you getting used to the changes? The new Develop controls undoubtedly take a little getting used to, particularly if you’ve used ACR or Lightroom for some years. There are some great tutorials on the new Develop sliders, so we won’t reinvent the wheel [...]
ACR 5.7 and LR 2.7… and LR3, CS4, CS5 and how they all fit together
There’s still considerable confusion about the recent Lightroom 2.7 and ACR 5.7 updates and their compatibility with Lightroom 3. To complicate it further, although LR 2.7′s basic processing matches the ACR 5.7 release, on this occasion ACR 5.7 offers additional features for LR3 compatibility. For a start, there’s a difference between a demosaic and a [...]
Hurry up Lightroom! The best speed tips!
[Warning - this is quite long. I had originally intended to split it over a number of blog posts, but it'll be easier to reference as one post.] Who has never said “hurry up Lightroom”? Speed is one of the most popular feature requests from Lightroom users everywhere, and no doubt the engineers will continue [...]
Why won’t my white balance sync?
This one catches all of us out at some time or other… The white balance is perfect on photo A, so you sync the settings to photo B… but it doesn’t change. So you try it again… and it still doesn’t change. Why? As Shot is the key. If photo A is set to As [...]
Corrupted monitor profile
A corrupted monitor profile is often to blame for Lightroom preview issues, whether that be a mismatch in colours between programs, or simply blank grey previews. Lightroom uses the profile differently to other programs (perceptual rendering rather than relative colorimetric), so corruption in that part of the profile shows up even though it is not [...]