Browsing all articles by Helen Bradley.

How to Print with Colored Backgrounds in Lightroom

One issue with Lightroom is that all the images that you print from the print module print with white backgrounds.
One DPS reader recently mentioned this in a post I did on creating a Triptych in Lightroom. While the reader is correct in supposing that Lightroom does not offer color backgrounds for images, there is a [...]

Enhancing Midtones in Photoshop

If you’re a Photoshop and Lightroom user you may, like me, love the Clarity adjustment in Lightroom and wish it were available in Photoshop too. The Clarity slider lets you adjust the contrast in the midtones of an image which gives an over all sharpening and color boost to the image midtones.
As yet, there is [...]

10 Objects you Didn’t Know could be Dragged, Clicked or Opened in Lightroom

If you’re new to Lightroom, there are a lot of interface options that you may not realize hide must know and handy program features. In this post, I’ll show you some of the buttons, icons, samplers and switches that a knowledge of Photoshop (at least versions prior to CS4) won’t help you identify or locate.
1. [...]

Highlight Color Effect in Lightroom – 5 Easy Steps

One effect many people like to use with their photos is to remove all the color from the image and leave it in only one place in the image. For example, in a wedding shot you might turn the entire image into black and white leaving just the bride’s bouquet in color.
Here’s how to achieve [...]

10 Photoshop Interface Features you Didn’t Know Existed

Here it is, short and sweet. 10 techniques for working in Photoshop that you may not know existed:
1. Open a File without using the Menus
Simple. Double click the grey background area of the Photoshop window and the File Open dialog appears – magic!?

2. If grey is Dull, Black is Wonderful and any Color is Better!
To [...]

How to Select and Compose a Triptych in Lightroom

In a recent article, I explained how to create a triptych in Lightroom. The solution covered the mechanics of setting up a triptych template in Lightroom.
In this post, I’m going to address the issue of selecting images to use in the triptych. I’ll explain some rules of composition and show how I make a selection [...]

Fixing Animal Eyes in Lightroom

Often when I look at the photographs that I’ve taken at the zoo, for example, the animals’ eyes are underexposed and lifeless.
To fix animals’ eyes in Lightroom so that they look compelling and still realistic, here is my fixing “animals eyes” workflow:

Step 1

Tags: animals, Eyes, Lightroom, Lightroom 2.0, Post Production Tips, post-processing

How to Fix Chromatic Aberration in Photoshop

Chromatic Aberration is the bane of digital photographers. It can be seen as a halo or fringe around the edges of an object in a photograph when you photograph it in certain lights – you might see it for example, when you photograph a darker object in front of a bright sky. Some tools like [...]

How to Resize Images in Lightroom 2

One of the hardest things for a new Lightroom user to work out how to perform is a simple image resizing. Look as hard as you like and there simply isn’t a resize menu command.
There is, of course, a way to resize images and it is done as you Export them from Lightroom which [...]

Clean up a Scene in Photoshop Elements in 6 Easy Steps

When you’re photographing popular places this summer, one issue you’ll face is getting a clean shot of what you’re photographing. Too often popular places are filled with tourists so it’s difficult to capture a scene without getting lots of people in it too.
The solution is to recognize the problem when you’re shooting and capture a [...]