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How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

With Lightroom’s Smart Previews you can work on your Lightroom catalog without access to the image files. This is a powerful, but under-appreciated feature of Lightroom. Smart Previews give you the freedom to keep working even if you lose access to the drive that stores your image files. This feature makes it easy to send… Continue reading How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

Why bother renaming your image files? Isn’t IMG_4232.RAW good enough for most photographers? So you use an app, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, to manage yours: good choice. But what happens if you lose your catalog, and all that careful organization goes with it? One smart habit is to keep some specific, basic metadata in the filenames… Continue reading How-to Rename Photos Automatically in Lightroom Classic

The best practical gifts for photographers

These are the best practical gifts for photographers. Abby Ferguson We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sure, it’s fun to give (and get) flashy gifts over the holidays. But sometimes, it’s even better to give something that you know will be used… Continue reading The best practical gifts for photographers

Lightroom Classic Catalogs: A Quick Introduction

If you’re familiar with Adobe’s popular Lightroom software, you have probably heard all of the talk about catalogs. Catalogs are Lightroom’s system for storing image edit data. Different photographers have different approaches to managing their photo libraries, and the talk about catalogs is a highly debated one. Today, we are going to take a look… Continue reading Lightroom Classic Catalogs: A Quick Introduction

Get Started With Adobe Lightroom Classic: The Photo Workflow

When you first got into photography you probably weren’t thinking much about your digital image workflow. Then you really caught the photography bug, and several years (or maybe weeks!) later you’ve taken thousands of images. If you’re anything like me, these pictures are pretty disorganized. This tutorial shows how to use Adobe Lightroom to tame… Continue reading Get Started With Adobe Lightroom Classic: The Photo Workflow

Save hundreds on camera and video gear during Adorama’s early Black Friday sale

A variety of photo and video gear is on sale during Adorama’s early Black Friday sale. Abby Ferguson We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › If you’re currently trying to avoid spending money on new camera gear, you should probably click off of… Continue reading Save hundreds on camera and video gear during Adorama’s early Black Friday sale

New gear: Canon announces the EOS R6 Mark II, RF 135mm F1.5 lens, and Speedlite EL-5

Canon has announced the EOS R6 Mark II full-frame mirrorless camera. Canon Canon is keeping busy lately with a consistent parade of new gear. Just this summer, it launched the EOS R10 and R7 cameras. And now, it has announced the EOS R6 Mark II, RF 135mm F1.8 L IS USM lens, and the Speedlite… Continue reading New gear: Canon announces the EOS R6 Mark II, RF 135mm F1.5 lens, and Speedlite EL-5

Save on Sigma and Tamron lenses during this early Black Friday sale

Save on Tamron and Sigma lenses during this early Black Friday sale. Abby Ferguson We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sigma and Tamron lenses already offer lower-cost yet quality alternatives to Canon, Sony, and Nikon lenses. And right now, they are even… Continue reading Save on Sigma and Tamron lenses during this early Black Friday sale