Unlock Lightroom’s Full Potential with these 5 Free Guides Lightroom is a powerful tool for photographers, offering a range of features to enhance and perfect their images. However, mastering its intricacies can be challenging, and even seasoned photographers can…

Impossible Things Review – Lightroom Workshops The Impossible Things AI Photo Editor is a versatile and powerful tool that aims to revolutionize photo editing with its AI-driven capabilities. Created by educators, SLR Lounge and preset makers…

Old School Photographer Discovers the Value of Lightroom Presets I’m going to date myself. I cut my teeth in photography using Tri-X film and Kodachrome slides. Younger photographers may not recognize that I’m talking about film photography. Photograph by…

The Top 10 Lightroom Tips for Your Success Lightroom is the premiere editing software from Adobe. It’s used by photographers, content creators, and digital nomads across the globe. Part of the Creative Cloud Suite, Lightroom offers an easy-to-use…

How to Master the New Color Grading Panel in Adobe Lightroom Classic In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the brand new Color Grading panel in Lightroom Classic. The Color Grading Panel replaces the Split Toning panel in the latest…

3 Super Easy Ways To Make a Border in Lightroom Classic/CC and Photoshop Creating a border around your images isn’t difficult, but there are many ways that you can achieve similar results. Do you use Lightroom Classic? CC? Photoshop? We got you covered!…

Everything You Need to Know About Exporting Images from Lightroom Classic Lightroom Classic can be so incredibly useful for photographers. It has a ton of valuable features for editing, organizing, and sharing photographs. Unfortunately, some things in Lightroom Classic can be…

How to Setup Tethering With Lightroom Classic We know you’re always looking for ways to make your photography and photo editing workflow more convenient, streamlined, and effective. Let’s talk about how you can set up tethering to…

An Introduction to the Cloud-Based Lightroom CC App While we’re big fans of Lightroom Classic here at Contrastly, there’s no denying that Adobe is making a lot of progress with their cloud-based Lightroom CC app. With new features…

10 of the Best Lightroom Classic Plugins & Tools You Must Try If you’ve spent much time in the world of photography, you’re likely familiar with Adobe’s Lightroom Classic, a favorite post-production photo editing software amongst both beginning and expert photographers. However,…

Five Things You Can Do to Improve the Performance of Lightroom Classic If you’re someone who spends quite a lot of time editing photos on their computer, or even someone just learning to edit, then you’re probably aware of Adobe’s Lightroom Classic.…

Download the Free Lightroom Presets Starter Pack As a free gift for signing up you can download 25 free presets you can start using to edit your images in Lightroom. They’re compatible with Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and…

Introduction to the Texture Slider in Lightroom Classic The new Texture slider found in the Develop module in Lightroom Classic is quite a big deal. Here’s a brief overview of what it can do and how it can…

File Handling in Adobe Lightroom Classic In today’s video we’ll discuss how Adobe Lightroom Classic non-destructively handles your image files. If you’ve been using Lightroom Classic for some time, you’re probably already aware that Lightroom does…

5 Tips for Better Image Management in Lightroom Classic We all know that, as photographers, organization is key. It’s not uncommon for us to take hundreds of photographs in a single venture, and those numbers add up quickly! Keeping…

How to Use the Transform Panel in Lightroom Classic In this tutorial video, we’ll show you how to use the Transform panel in Lightroom Classic successfully. The Transform Panel can help correct lines and other geometric properties of your…

How to Successfully Use the Histogram in Lightroom Classic As one of the most popular photo editing programs available, photographers of all skill levels often find themselves using Lightroom Classic during post-processing. However, one of Lightroom’s most useful features…

Are You Making These 6 Lightroom Post-Processing Mistakes? As one of the most popular photo editing programs available, Lightroom Classic is a favorite of both beginning and veteran photographers. However, Lightroom’s complexity makes it difficult to master, and…

17 Lightroom Editing Secrets to Take Your Photos to the Next Level Do you want to produce stunning edits in Lightroom? Edits that will make your photos look amazing? You can. Because it turns out there are a few Lightroom secrets that expert…

Lightroom vs Photoshop: Which One Is Better for You? There’s a sense among beginner photographers that Lightroom and Photoshop are pretty much one and the same. But the two are quite different. Probably not as different as night and…

12 Quick Lightroom Tricks Every Photographer Should Know Lightroom is one really powerful piece of software, especially with Adobe releasing new features, improvements, and bug fixes on a regular basis now. There are quite a few things you…

Decoding Lightroom: The Essential Lightroom Classic Video Workshop The Decoding Lightroom online video course was created to help you, fellow photographer, better understand the software and make organizing, developing, editing and cataloging your images easier. It’s no secret…

Getting Started With Lightroom Classic: Quick Tips & Tricks Lightroom! You’ve heard of it, but maybe you haven’t quite gotten around to downloading it yet. Or maybe you have, but you’re not quite sure what to do with it.…

How to Edit a Landscape Image Like the Pros in Lightroom Landscape photography is one of the core genres of photography as an art. The truth is, physically clicking the shutter and making the photograph is only part of the full…

Lightroom Update: Sync and Use Presets & Profiles with the Lightroom CC Mobile App It was a long time coming, but with the latest update of Lightroom CC presets and profiles can now be synced seamlessly to the iOS and Android Lightroom CC mobile…

Lightroom Mastery: A Complete Guide to Working in Lightroom Classic This book will show you how to use Lightroom Classic to its full potential; not by droning repetitions of someone else’s editing style, but through teaching you the basic premises…

Lightroom & ACR Creative Profiles Bundle When Adobe told us they were planning the launch of Creative Profiles, we jumped at the opportunity to create a few profile packs. Currently there are five sets available in…

New Profiles Feature in Lightroom & Camera Raw (April 2018 update) Today Adobe announced a new feature in Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, and Adobe Camera Raw: Profiles. While Profiles have been available in Lightroom and ACR for a long time, this…

Smarter Sharpening with Lightroom Classic What do we mean when we talk about “sharpening” a photo? Yes, we all have an idea of what a sharp image looks like as opposed to an unsharp one.…

Everything You Need To Know About the New Lightroom Classic & CC Every now and then, Adobe releases updates to their suite of applications. They recently released quite a massive update – which includes significant updates to Lightroom and Photoshop. I wanted…

How to Create Local Adjustment Presets in Adobe Lightroom Classic You probably understand by now that if you use Adobe Lightroom, using develop presets can save you loads of time during your post processing. Presets just make things easier and…

How to Setup Photos for Print in Lightroom Coming out with printed photos may not be as popular as it once was since many photographers (and consumers) tend to post images online or in a digital format to…

Creating an HDR Aerial Panorama in Lightroom Aerial photography is all the rage these days, and with good reason. It’s now easier than ever to capture images from a high vantage point using drones. And, good quality…

Processing an Aerial Photo in Lightroom & Photoshop Aerial photographs tend to contain quite a lot of information – the sky, clouds, landscape, possibly some roads, and buildings as well. In this video we’ll go through the various…

Dropping Focus In Adobe Lightroom – Video Tutorial In this tutorial video we’ll go through the various steps you can take in Lightroom in order to enhance your portraits by dropping focus, and selectively adding a bit more…

Night Edits: How To Edit A Long Exposure Night Photo In Lightroom Editing night time photos in Adobe Lightroom shouldn’t be hard. Today I’ll walk you through editing a long exposure image shot at night time (complete with light trails and all)…

A Look at the New Reference View in Adobe Lightroom While most photography software updates provide bug fixes and support for new cameras, sometimes we get a slick new feature. This is exactly what happened in the most recent update…

Video Tutorial: Handling Hotspots in Lightroom and Photoshop Hotspots are shiny and overexposed areas on a subject that are the result of uneven lighting or a flash bouncing off a light surface. In this Lightroom & Photoshop tutorial…

Using The HSL Panel in Adobe Lightroom For More Creative Control – Video The HLS panel in Lightroom is very powerful and can allow you to take more creative control over your images. It allows you to selectively adjust the Hue, Saturation and…

How To Achieve A Split Tone Look In Lightroom – Video Split toning is a really creative way to change the look and feel of your photographs and give your photos somewhat of a signature style. Today’s video tutorial will walk…

How To Use The Boundary Warp Tool in Lightroom Stitching multiple images together to create panoramas is great, but in a lot of cases your final image will have empty space and some parts missing. That’s simply the result…

How To Use The Graduated Filter Tool In Lightroom The graduated filter in Lightroom is an outstanding and powerful tool. Its value really can’t be overstated when it comes to processing your images, especially landscape photos. In this tutorial…

How To Develop A Photo Using Lightroom Presets As A Starting Point Lightroom presets are awesome, no question there. But they’re often meant as a way to kick-start your post-processing workflow. Presets can help you save a lot of time by applying…

Using Lightroom Presets In Your Workflow & Creating Your Own It’s no secret that Lightroom presets can be very powerful when used in a solid post-processing workflow. Let’s have a look at how to install presets, as well as how…

How To Dodge & Burn In Lightroom Classic Like The Pros The printing and development work performed in the darkroom is sometimes viewed as low-tech or at the very least, not as advanced as today’s digital processing software. Nothing could be…

How To Create Presets in Adobe Lightroom The Easy Way – Video Tutorial In today’s video tutorial I will walk you through how to make use of presets in Lightroom and save your image settings as a preset so you can re-use those…

How to Create a Lomography Effect in Adobe Lightroom As we all know, fashion trends tend to revive things from the past, and the photography world is no exception to that rule, which may be one way to explain…

How To Create Presets in Lightroom Classic (+ 5 Free Presets) Presets are one of the most powerful ways to speed up your photo editing workflow. They enable a photographer to save time by not having to painstakingly adjust each aspect…

How to Stitch a Panorama in Adobe Lightroom Classic Stitching images together to create wide panoramas is now possible using Lightroom 6/Classic. Gone are the days when you had to open up Photoshop to create awesome panoramas. Obviously, great…

The Complete Lightroom & ACR Presets Bundle If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to get a head start with your editing in Lightroom or ACR, the 1,450+ presets included in this bundle will help you do just…