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My buddy Terry White came across this awesome FREE plug-in that lets you post right from Lightroom straight up to Instagram, and it works really well. Here’s a short video where Terry shows you how it all works: ….or, if you prefer to read about it, here’s the link to the article on Terry’s Tech Blog. OK, on Monday I’m off to Iceland…. In the meantime, just wanted to mention that this would be a great weekend to watch my “7 Photoshop Techniques Every Lightroom User Needs to Know” class over at KelbyOne.com – here’s the link.  Have a great weekend everybody! Best, -Scott P.S. If you haven’t ordered your official 2016 Worldwide Photo Walk t-shirt (100% of the profits go directly to the Springs of Hope...

It’s here, and I got to take it out for a test location shoot, and I’ve got the most juicy specs, and a few test shots, with it in the video below: I know I don’t normally post on Thursdays, but this was big enough news (and breaking enough), that I wanted to do it (plus, I’m a 5D Mark III user now for years, and still will be, for around a month). Here’s the official Canon Press Release with all the details (and there are plenty). Have a great Thursday – I’m here in Indianapolis for my seminar today. Hope I get to meet you here. Best, -Scott The post My “First-look” Video on The Just-Announced Canon 5D Mark IV appeared first on Lightroom Killer Tips.

Have you even taken a portrait of someone, and when they see their image on screen, they say “Wow, that doesn’t look like me”. If they did, it’s probably because that actually isn’t how they see themselves day in and day out when they look in the mirror. They see a “mirror image” of themselves in the mirror, but in photo you just took of them, they look different from what they’re used to seeing. Enter: Mirror Image Mode (found under the View menu at the very bottom of the menu, as seen above). While it’s been there since Lightroom 1.0, it has kind of a niche use so it’s not very well known, and what it does is flip all your Lightroom images horizontally, so now the image looks like it would when the...

Hi gang, and yes, it’s Monday already (altogether now…groan!) Anyway, when I’m out on the road with my Seminar Tour (next stop is in Indianapolis this Thursday by the way), I run into so many photographers who tell me they signed up for Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photographer’s Bundle (Lightroom & Photoshop for $9.99 a month), but they’re not really using the Photoshop part yet. They tell me, “I know I should be using it…” or “I know I could be doing so much more…” but they just haven’t taken the time to learn it or had the right opportunity. That’s why I did this new KelbyOne online course called “7 Photoshop Techniques Every Lightroom User Needs to Know” — it’s expressly for Lightroom users and I...

Hi gang, and happy Friday. I’ve had a number of questions about this, so I thought I’d cover it briefly here on the blog — it’s the difference between the Auto Crop feature and the new Boundary Warp feature when you’re stitching a pano using Lightroom’s Panorama Merge. Above: Here’s the original pano, unretouched or edited, as it appeared after eight vertical frames were combined into this one panoramic image. Note the big white gaps on the top, bottom, and sides of the image? That’s what this post is all about — how we deal with those white gaps in Lightroom. Auto Crop Version Above: Here’s how the Pano looks in the Merge to Panorama window when you turn on the Auto Crop checkbox. It simply crops...