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How to Sync Full Res Images instead of Smart Previews from Lightroom Classic

How to Sync Full Res Images instead of Smart Previews from Lightroom Classic

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Tips

When Adobe first introduced the syncing feature in Lightroom, which let you sync to its cloud services, it only synced smart previews, and at the time this wasn’t a big deal, as there was limits to what you could do on the mobile applications. Now, many versions later and Lightroom has become a whole eco system, and the mobile versions are much more powerful. We now also have the desktop version of the mobile applications, so it is odd that Lightroom Classic is still stuck syncing only smart previews. But what if you want full res versions that you can edit on another device but still synced to your classic library? Well, there is a workaround.

VSCO Film alternatives

VSCO Film alternatives

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

Since VSCCO Film was discontinued at the start of this year, I’ve been looking for alternatives to recommend to people who want to create a realistic film effect. While I do have some film like presets of my own, they are mostly designed as an artistic interpretation of film. For those looking for accurate and highly regarded film simulations for Lightroom, there are a couple of solutions.

Possible Lightroom Classic Preview Bug and How to Fix It

Possible Lightroom Classic Preview Bug and How to Fix It

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

This is a super quick tip for Lightroom classic users. Over the past while, something has been bothering me about Lightroom. When working on images, especially in the develop module, I noticed that the display seemed soft, and if you looked closely you could see some scaling artefacts. This hadn’t always been the way, and I couldn’t figure out if it was a recent version that brought it back, but it had been driving me mad. It turns out the solution was really simple.

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software, Video, Tips, Lightroom

One of the new features of iPadOS that was announced was the ability to import images directly into apps from attached storage, without having to go through the camera roll. Unfortunately not many apps have been updated to take advantage of this yet, including Lightroom. However, there is a pretty simple work around and in this video I show you what to do.

Two Ways to Automatically Send Images from Lightroom (or Capture One) into Apple Photos

Two Ways to Automatically Send Images from Lightroom (or Capture One) into Apple Photos

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Capture One, Lightroom, Photos App

If you’re on a Mac and you want to send your finished images from Lightroom (or Capture One) to Apple Photos, to sync to your devices for example, then you can do it manually by exporting from one application and importing into the other. This can be a bit tedious, but there are also some ways you can automate the process. This involves exporting to a folder in the finder from Lightroom or capture One, and having that automatically import into Photos.

Setting your Fuji Film Simulation Modes Automatically in Lightroom

Setting your Fuji Film Simulation Modes Automatically in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Fuji X-Series

While Lightroom supports Fuji Film Simulation modes via colour profiles, you still have to set them manually. This means that if you have shot using multiple modes on a single shoot, if you’re working with the RAW files in Lightroom, it can be a pain to replicate the right ones manually. While Capture One will set the right modes automatically based on what you shot with, there’s no way to do this in Lightroom natively. There is however a plug-in that will do this for you.

Experimental Sony A6000 Custom Lightroom Colour Profile to Download

Experimental Sony A6000 Custom Lightroom Colour Profile to Download

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Sony

Long time readers will know that I’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about and coming up with solutions to the problem with Adobe’s calibration of Sony raw files. In particular, I’ve covered the A6000 many times, as it is a camera that I own and use regularly. In the past I’ve crated custom corrections by manually adjusting the calibrations by eye. As Datacolor were kind enough to send me their Spyder X Studio package to try and to review, I thought I would see if I could use the Spyderchecker to create a better profile.

A Capture One (Express) to Lightroom Technique For Fuji Shooters (How to Use Capture One Express like X-Transformer - sort of)

A Capture One (Express) to Lightroom Technique For Fuji Shooters (How to Use Capture One Express like X-Transformer - sort of)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Lightroom

I’ve often gotten questions from readers as to whether there is any way to use Capture One Express in a similar fashion to Iridient X-Transformer, in order to produce a file that you can then import into Lightroom for further editing. While there is no direct way to do this in the exact same way it is with Iridient X-Transformer, getting these questions did get the cogs in my brain working! I wondered if there was a way one could use Capture One’s flat profile to achieve something similar. So, after spending some time experimenting, I’ve come up with a possible solution. Read on to find out more…

The Quick Way to get your Lightroom Presets from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Mobile

The Quick Way to get your Lightroom Presets from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Mobile

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

For the longest time I wasn’t a huge user of Lightroom mobile, but that all changed when I upgraded to the iPhone XR and I started using Lightroom’s camera more and more. Now I use Lightroom mobile a lot more than I used to. Having access to your presets on the software can really help your workflow, but if you primarily use Lightroom Classic on the desktop, they won’t be synced automatically so un this post I’m going to show you a quick way to get your presets across, without too much fuss.

Share Folders of Images between Lightroom and Capture One and Keep Metadata Intact

Share Folders of Images between Lightroom and Capture One and Keep Metadata Intact

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Lightroom

If you are using both Lightroom and Capture One, there may be occasions when you want to try processing your images in both applications. This could be because you are still in the process of transitioning to Capture One, or you may just like using both applications. Whatever the reason, there are ways you can simplify the workflow of working with both applications, and in this post I’ll show you what to do.

Lightroom returns to the Mac App Store

Lightroom returns to the Mac App Store

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, News

After an extended period of not being available through Apple’s MacOS App Store, Lightroom has made a return. The changes to the Mac App Store that came about when Mojave was released last year, allowed Adobe to bring the software back along with the return of several other high profile apps, such as Microsoft Office, It’s available now for any compatible Mac running 10.8 or later. It should be noted that this version is Lightroom Desktop (I.e. the version based on the mobil eversion of Lightroom) and not Lightroom Classic. 

Reduce Shadow Noise in Lightroom

Reduce Shadow Noise in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Video

Sometimes you can come across an image where the shadows are quite noisy, but there are still details in the mid tones or highlights that you don’t want to soften by applying too much overall noise reduction. You can actually just apply noise reduction to the shadows of an image in Lightroom by using a luminance mask. In this video I show you how to do this.

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