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White balance and its importance - An Excerpt from my Sony A6000 Guide

White balance and its importance - An Excerpt from my Sony A6000 Guide

Thomas Fitzgerald
Sony, Lightroom

It may seem like a simple thing, but getting the correct white balance can have a significant impact on the overall look of an image. Often you may hear people complaining about the colours of a particular camera, and that they don’t like the colours that a specific brand of camera might produce. It is a common misconception that this has to do with the design of the sensor. In many cases much of what is perceived as differences in a camera’s ability to capture colours may be partly due to the way a camera’s white balance is calibrated. 

Sony A6000 Post Processing Guide for Lightroom Now Available

Sony A6000 Post Processing Guide for Lightroom Now Available

Thomas Fitzgerald
Sony, Lightroom

I’m very pleased to announce, that after a very long time in production, my newest guide is now available. this e-book guide is called “Processing Sony A6000 Raw files in Lightroom: A Workflow and settings guide”. While that’s probably a bit of a mouthful, it pretty much sums up what this new guide is about. In the same way that I have previously written guides for Fuji X-Series shooters, this guide is designed specifically for Sony A6000 shooters who want to get the best from their camera when processing their images in Lightroom.

F-Variations for Lightroom: Free Lightroom Presets for Fuji X-Series users

F-Variations for Lightroom: Free Lightroom Presets for Fuji X-Series users

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series, Lightroom

I’ve created a new set of presets for Fuji users and I’m happy to announce that I’m giving these away for free. Basically, I really like the various film simulation modes available on Fuji’s cameras, and the corresponding picture profiles in Lightroom. They’re good on their own, but they also make a good starting point for some further manipulation. So, using the various profiles as a starting point, I created my own set of “Variations” of these.

 

Two New Preset Bundles now Available

Two New Preset Bundles now Available

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’ve added two new bundles of Lightroom Preset packs to the store. Previously I had created a bundle of my first 6 presets, and I’ve been waiting till I had another 6 to do a second bundle. Well, with the recent release of FilmLUX I now had another 6 Lightroom Preset packs, and so I’ve created another Bundle. 

How to Reduce Shadow Noise using Lightroom and Photoshop

How to Reduce Shadow Noise using Lightroom and Photoshop

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

Lightroom’s noise reduction tools are pretty good, and can help reduce digital noise in an image quite effectively. However, one of the things that sometimes occurs with images taken on a digital camera is that the overall image may be ok, but there may be excessive noise in the shadows. This is because most digital cameras are noisier in the shadow part of the image than they are in the brighter parts. While this is decreasing with modern cameras, it can still be an issue, especially when pushing an image in Lightroom.

Search Replace Transfer, An Extremely Useful Metadata Tool for Lightroom

Search Replace Transfer, An Extremely Useful Metadata Tool for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’ve long complained about the lack of certain metadata functionality in Lightroom. I don’t particularly like the interface for entering metadata as it is, but the software lacks certain key features that I have long missed since moving from Aperture..... Recently I set about trying to find a solution, and it came in the form of a plug-in from John Beardsworth called “Search Replace Transfer”

Introducing FilmLUX for Lightroom

Introducing FilmLUX for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’m delighted to announce, that after much delay, my latest set of Lightroom Presets, FilmLUX is now available. I came up with the idea for FilmLUX a little while ago when I was in the midst of scanning lots of old slide and transparency film. I noticed that the results I was getting had a really nice quality to them, and they weren’t quite like what I was getting from other presets. With this in mind I set about trying to create my own, paying close attention to the results I was getting from my own film scans.

A Sneak Peek at Film Lux for Lightroom

A Sneak Peek at Film Lux for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

It’s been a while since I last released a set of Lightroom presets, despite my plan to release one set a month this year. I’ve actually been working on a new set for a while now though, and I’m excited about the results. Called “Film Lux” it’s a continuation of my “Lux” series,and this time it’s about some more realistic film styles. 

Nasty Lightroom Memory leak

Nasty Lightroom Memory leak

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

I’ve been plagued by a nasty bug in the latest version of Lightroom on the Mac. It’s affected me several times now, and the same action triggers it, so it’s not a a random one off. On top of that I’ve read similar stories online from people with similar issues. Basically, every so often, when you open the import window, the memory usage of Lightroom goes through the roof and the application becomes frozen. If you don’t force quit the application quickly after this happens, the entire system hangs.

Archiving Projects in Lightroom

Archiving Projects in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

There are times that it feels like I’m playing a constant battle with hard drive space. I’m sure that many photographers feel like this at one time or another (or all the time). My Lightroom Library is a giant mess. I’m the first to admit that, and it’s not particularly well organised. I have images littered across multiple drives and I’ve lots of older projects which I don’t really need access to the raw files, but are still online. So, once again, I’ve started trying to tame the beast, and I’ve a few new strategies for dealing with it that I thought you might find interesting.

Lightroom Quick Tip: Drag and Drop Behaviour

Lightroom Quick Tip: Drag and Drop Behaviour

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

There are lots of ways to get images into and out of Lightroom. For importing, you can import from the import dialog box, or by setting up the auto import., or by synchronising an existing folder. For outputting, you can export via a variety of settings, or use one of the publishing plugins in the Library module. But what happens when you drag and drop images into or out of Lightroom?

The Lightroom Diary is Back

The Lightroom Diary is Back

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Site News

A while ago I was publishing another blog for Lightroom, called "The Lightroom Diary" and at the time it had become too much trouble for me to post to both that and this, my regular blog. So I shut it down and consolidated all the Lightroom posts here. I said at the time that I might start it back up again, and so now I have.

Why you probably shouldn't Sync your Lightroom Catalogue via Dropbox

Why you probably shouldn't Sync your Lightroom Catalogue via Dropbox

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Editorial

An interesting topic came up for discussion recently between some colleagues. We were talking about how nice it would be if Lightroom let you sync projects between a laptop and a desktop, and someone suggested that you could just put your catalogue on dropbox and sync it that way. If you google this there are lots of tutorials for various ways to set this up, but in my opinion, while that might sound like a good idea or a simple solution, it's something that I personally would avoid doing, and here's why.

Lightroom's Guided Upright - Video

Lightroom's Guided Upright - Video

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

The headline feature in the latest version of Lightroom CC is the new guided upright feature. This new tool lets you set guidelines when using the "Upright" automatic correction feature. Rather than spend a long time talking about it, I made a quick video to show you the feature in action.

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