#smart previews

Lightroom’s Smart Previews, your new best friend

What are Lightroom’s Smart Reviews Adobe’s Lightroom is a fantastic piece of software. It may not be the best photo editor (Capture One for example is still the reference IMHO), it may not be the best to organise your photos (Photo Mechanic is pretty awesome too), but it does all of that very well, and furthermore it offers so many features that makes the photographer’s life easier. The last…

I had the honor to be a guest on The Photoshop Show last night! Hosts Jan Kabili and Ron Clifford graciously let me ramble on about how to use smart previews when moving between your main computer and your laptop. Photographers Erika Thornes and Dave Bell joined us on the panel for the show.

This was great fun for me! Hopefully you will find the information useful. If you haven't heard about The Photoshop Show then circle them in Google+ so you can find out about their upcoming guests and browse their catalog of past shows.

I am enjoying the new features in Lightroom 5. Although not a significant upgrade from 4, there are a few very helpful tweaks. Specifically, the Radial Filter tool, the Healing Brush (still work to be done on this, but it looks like 5.2 may solve the…