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Follow these lightroom tutorials to learn all about lightroom with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to videos, like Create & customize a Lightroom 2 slideshow, Use Adobe Lightroom 2 adjustment brush, and Use new features in Lightroom 2 Library Module.

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How to create & customize a Lightroom 2 slideshow

RC opens up Lightroom 2 and talks about creating and customizing in the slide show module. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers ...more

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How to use Adobe Lightroom 2 adjustment brush

This tutorial covers the basics of Lightroom 2’s new adjustment brush and reviews most of the setting options. For more Adobe software ...more

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How to use new features in Lightroom 2 Library Module

This tutorial covers some of the new features in the Lightroom 2 ...more

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How to organize & export photos from Adobe Lightroom 2

RC talks about how to setup Lightroom2 to organize and export your ...more

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How to install presets into Lightroom 1.1

Get your dose of the coolest Adobe Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with ...more

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How to work with HDR images in Lightroom 2

Get your dose of the coolest Adobe Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with ...more

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How to download and use camera profiles in Lightroom 2

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How to store photos in folders and hard drives in Lightroom 2

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How to transfer photos between Lightroom 2 and Photoshop

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How to import exported images in Lightroom 2

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How to make Develop presets with Lightroom 2

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How to move between a laptop and desktop with Lightroom 2

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How to use the user interface in Lightroom 2

Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes ...more

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How to erase the graduated filter in Lightroom 2

Get your dose of the coolest Adobe Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with ...more

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How to watermark photos in Lightroom 2

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How to use the soft focus presets in Lightroom 2

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How to work with preferences in Lightroom 2

Get your dose of the coolest Adobe Lightroom tutorials, tips, time-saving shortcuts, photographic inspiration, and undocumented tricks with ...more

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How to choose to use Adobe Lightroom

Does Adobe Photoshop Lightroom replace Photoshop? What's the difference between Lightroom and Bridge? Do you need it to manage your photos ...more

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How to create a cross processed film effect in Lightroom 2

For years, photographers have been creating cross processed effects ...more

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How to use the Painter Tool in Adobe Lightroom 1.2

The painter tool in Lightroom 1.2 is an extremely powerful tool that speeds up your photo editing process. In this podcast, you will learn ...more

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How to add music to a PDF slideshow from Lightroom in Acrobat

At first glance there doesn’t look like a way to save your slideshows ...more

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How to archive with Photoshop's Lightroom

How do you archive your photos from Lightroom so you can free up hard drive space but still maintain and manage your photo shoots in ...more

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How to back up Lightroom

The topic is, “How do you back up Lightroom?” I mean, what do you do to make sure that if your computer decides to go bye-bye tomorrow, that ...more

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How to import, store and render in Lightroom

Adobe's Frederick Johnson is back to talk about where you can store files in Lightroom, how it keeps track of your adjustments, and new ...more

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How to change multiple images at once in Adobe Lightroom

Learn how to change multiple images at once in Adobe Lightroom. This ...more

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How to customize your identity plate in Lightroom

If you look in the top left corner of Lightroom you’ll see a small area showing Lightroom’s product identity. But picture this. What if you ...more

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How to rename photos in Lightroom

This week’s video is on renaming photos once they’re already in Lightroom. Now, you may already know you can rename when you import into ...more

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How to straighten photos with the crop tool in Lightroom

Before Lightroom, cropping and straightening in Photoshop was a 2-step ...more

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How to use dual monitors with Lightroom 2

You may work with a two monitor computer setup, but that doesn't mean you know how to maximize their use in every software. Lightroom 2 beta ...more

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How to use the painter tool in Lightroom 1.1

This week we’re going to take a look at the Painter tool. The Painter tool is actually part of Lightroom 1.1 and it was originally the ...more

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How to create a surreal edgy effect in Lightroom

This effect is something that you’d typically create in Photoshop (and maybe with a plug-in) but you can come up with some very cool results ...more

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How to apply localized correction in Lightroom 2

Pixel Perfect is the "perfect" show to help you with your Photoshop skills. Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes ...more

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How to use Smart Collections in Lightroom 2

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How to use the adjustment brush color swatch in Lightroom 2

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How to export images of the same size from Lightroom

This Adobe Lightroom tutorial shows you how to create a batch process ...more

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How to edit images in Adobe Lightroom CS4 & Photoshop CS4

Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software work ...more

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How to load new Develop presets in Photoshop's Lightroom

This week’s video topic comes from the fact that I’ve been getting a ...more

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How to adjust white balance in Photoshop Lightroom

Adjusting white balance is one of the first things you should get down when editing a photo. This tutorial shows you how in Photoshop ...more

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How to back up your catalogs in Lightroom to another drive

Oddly enough, the backup location is not specified in Lightroom’s ...more

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How to batch process with the PhotoTools plugin for Lightroom

Learn how to put PhotoTools built-in batch processing engine to work ...more

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How to convert color photos to black and white in Lightroom

If you’ve used Photoshop before, you know that there is no one ...more

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How to create versions of photos for web output in Lightroom

Instead of teaching you how to use a specific feature in Lightroom ...more

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How to make a panoramic print preset in Lightroom

Learn how to create a preset for printing panoramas in Lightroom. Along the way you’ll pick up some tips about good features to use for this ...more

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How to print on a black background in Lightroom

A lot of folks have asked how to get Lightroom to let you print on to a black background instead of the usual white. In this week’s video ...more

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How to print photos with borders from Lightroom

This week’s killer tip video is based on tweaking the identity plate in the Print module to print a border around a photo in Lightroom.

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How to save a custom print template in Lightroom

Learn how to save a custom print template in a format that would let you send it to a printer or some one else to print. Technically, there ...more

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How to sharpen images in Lightroom 1.1

We’re going to take a look at the sharpening sliders i Lightroom 1.1 and Matt shows you exactly what they do on a landscape photo and a ...more

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How to store photos into folders when importing to Lightroom

Learn how to store your photos into folders when importing to ...more

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How to store your photos for Lightroom

So this week’s video is dedicated to answer just that question (and a couple more). Where does LR store your photos? Where should you store ...more

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How to use Auto Sync in Lightroom

This Lightroom tutorial is about a feature that a lot of people miss in the Develop module called Auto Sync. It comes in really handy when ...more

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Undulating LED Wave Sculpture

Beautiful LED sculpture made for the 2008 100% Design exhibition in Earls Court. Curious how it was made? Process images below the video. Previously, 24,000 LED Light-Up-My-Dress. LED Wand + RIFD ...

Robot Dance Off Gets Creepy

As November was coming to an end this year, the "6th Robo-One Gate in International Robot Exhibition 2009" dance competition took place. The contenders are just a little bit creepy, to say ...

2009's Most Amazing Scientific Images

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