Lightroom Hacks

Cheat sheet Can you really simulate bokeh effects digitally? Lightroom's Lens Blur tool is about as good as it gets right now

Lightroom hack If you like toning your black and white images you may wonder where Lightroom’s Toning panel actually went

Lightroom hack Everyone knows what Lightroom presets are, but how much attention do you pay to your Lightroom profiles?

Lightroom hack Thanks to digital imaging we can easily recreate the effect of black and white filters… up to a point

Lightroom hack Lightroom’s AI sky masking is extremely effective, even when it’s not the sky that you actually want…

Lightroom hack Lightroom’s automatic perspective/Transform corrections are amazing… except when they’re not. Here’s how to tweak them

Lightroom hack So you want more color – but WHICH color? Saturation and Vibrance alone are not the always the answer

Lightroom hack This black and white ‘partial reversal’ effect was all the rage in black and white darkroom days

Lightroom hack In the days of chemicals and film, cross processing meant using the ‘wrong’ chemicals to achieve unusual color shifts

Lightroom hack A matte effect is where the shadow tones in an image are lifted but not in the usual way, and it can be very effective