Among all the Premium (subscription required to access) presets, you’ll find the adaptive presets for portrait, sky, subject, and now blur background. Each of those represents a group of presets to achieve certain looks or starting points. The newest take advantage of the new Lens Blur panel (also accessible in Lightroom web), so let’s explore those.

Click each preset to see how it affects your photo, and note there is a Reset Blur preset at the bottom to clear those adjustments. Also, you can click the undo arrow icon at the top of the panel to undo any change. You also need to click the Save button at the top to apply the settings in the preset and move on. Once you click a preset you’ll see an Amount slider allowing you to dial in the intensity of the settings. Once you are happy with the amount, click Save, then click the Edit icon to access all of the editing tool panels and fine tune the results.

In the case of Lens Blur, you can further refine the Amount, Bokeh, and Focus Range to get the photo looking just the way you want. Click Save to finalize your settings, which will be synced across all other Lightroom apps, and you’re ready to move on to the next photo. Give it a spin!

Photoshop World is fast approaching (September 24-26), and I hope you’ll join me and about 30 world-class instructors for multiple days of learning on Lightroom, Photoshop, and photography! The best part of it being virtual is that you get access to the recordings of all classes you can access for one year after the conference! You can get all the details, schedule, and register here: https://photoshopworld.com

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I’ve been doing a series of in-depth photo guides for travel photographers for KelbyOne, and I’ve done it for locations all over the world (Paris, London, Lisbon, Rome, New York, Tuscany, Venice, and more), where I share the best places to shoot, the GPS coordinates; I show images from each location and give as many insights as I can. I did one for Chicago as well and one of the locations I talked about was a parking garage where you can shoot down on an intersection of the “L” (Elevated trains). When my co-host for the course, Larry Becker, saw the behind-the-scenes shot of me taking the shot (shown above), he asked how I could possibly get the shot straight at the angle I was shooting from. The answer? Lightroom’s Guided Edit. Here’s how I used it to fix the perspective issue:

STEP ONE: Here’s the shot, taken at the angle you see in the behind-the-scenes shot. To straighten the photo, go to the Transform panel and click on the Guide Button. When you click on this, nothing happens because there are two other steps. One is to click on the Guided Upright Tool (shown circled above), and then next is to drag it out over areas you want to be straightened (we’ll do that in the next step).

STEP TWO: I’m going to click and drag out the tool along the left track (I added a red two-headed arrow here to show you where I’m dragging. The tool itself lays down a white line, but it was hard to see it in this small capture, so I added the red line just as a visual. When you use this tool, the lines will be white. When you drag out the first line, nothing happens yet either.

STEP THREE: When you draw the 2nd Guide Edit line out (as seen here, where I dragged along the track on the right of my first line) you can see the image starts to straighten out. Depending on the image, you might only need two lines, but in this case, the image still looks skewed (the tracks look like they’re leaning downward from right to left through the horizontal middle of the image).

STEP FOUR: Here’s the third line — right down the tracks in the center.

STEP FIVE: I dragged the fourth and final line down the opposite tack, and you can see it’s pretty close now, but look up at the top center track, and you can see that when the fourth Guided Edit line did its thing to straighten out the image, it make the top centerline off by a little. Easily fixed because you can reposition the lines once they’re in place by clicking and dragging.

STEP SIX: I dragged the little repositioning dot on the top line (not quite sure that’s its real name) shown circled above in red and dragged it upward so it’s straight along the track again, and the image readjusts (as you can see here) and now it’s nice and straight.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

–Scott

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What happened is that I didn’t even notice it, and fat-finger hit it when trying to use the Move to command (just below it). As soon as it was tapped, the album I wanted to move just vanished from sight. Fun! Those crazy kids at Adobe wanted me to go on a bit of a goose chase.

So, I thought, let’s tap the Shared icon under My Albums and see if it is there. Hmmm … not seeing it …

Ok, at the top of this section, above My shared albums, which is where I thought it would be, is an option labeled My shared photos, so I tapped that.

Aha! I found it! Right at the top of the list, so I tapped the three dot menu next to that album and found the Show in albums menu and tapped that.

This put it right back where it was when I started this little adventure, and now I was able to do what I originally intended, though now I learned about a menu option I had never heard of or needed. My best guess is that it is for folks who want to share an album, but not have that album appear in the list under My albums on the main screen. I guess if you share a lot of albums with other people that you don’t want cluttering up this view? I just never thought of needing such an option, but now we all know in case you need it or you make the same mistake I did.

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Have a great Monday, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. I’ll be speaking at the On1 Landscape Photography Conference coming up next month. Some pretty incredible courses at the two-day online conference, including lots of shooting and post-processing sessions. More details at kelbyonelive.com – get your ticket now and save a bunch!

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Give that a try – you’ll love it!

Here’s wishing you a better-than-average Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

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Note: I love how the automated close captioning shows my name as “Scott Kelvin.” LOL!

Really simple but so effective.

Here’s wishing you an absolutely kick-butt, awesome Monday!

-Scott

P.S. Next week we kick off the 2024 Lightroom Conference. Two days, two learning tracks, and tons of really useful new stuff to learn (plus, you get the entire conference archived to stream on demand for an entire year). Don’t miss out – here’s the link to get your ticket.

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It’s surprisingly easy, but it really makes a difference and works like a charm.

Just a few weeks away from the Lightroom Conference 2024

It’s a two-day, two-track conference (with a pre-conference session the day before included). We’re talking 20+ Lightroom training sessions; an all-star crew of instructors, and you can save a bundle if you sign up right now at kelbyonelive.com – check out the trailer below with more details:

Get your ticket right now at kelbyonelive.com

Have a great Easter weekend, everybody!

-Scott

P.S. Our workshop with Joe McNally – the one I talked about earlier in the week, is now sold out. If you want to get on the cancellation waiting list, head to kelbyone.com/workshops

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Really handy, right?

Have a great Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

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If you sync images over to Lightroom “mobile,” it’s either happening or going to happen, but some of your photos are going to get stuck in Syncing Hell where they just never sync. It says they’re waiting to sync…but they never do.

See that “Syncing 14 photos” notice? Yeah, it’s been like that for about a year or so. They’re stuck. So, there are two options:

(1) Just pause syncing and ignore them. It’s not hurting anything; it’s not stopping other photos from synching, but it’s just annoying, so hit Pause until you need to sync something. Or…

(2) Go to your Preferences, find out which images are being held up, and see if you can figure out why (it can’t find the high-res original image and needs to be relinked to the original so it can sync), or maybe the file is corrupt, in which case you can delete it, but first you have to find it (see below).

If you go to the Preferences and click on the ‘Lightroom Syn’ tab (as seen above), it will list the images that are stuck in Sync Hell (as seen above). If you double-click on any one of those (as I did here), it brings the image in question forward in your filmstrip at the bottom (as seen here), so you know which one it is and you can troubleshoot (relink or delete) it.

Hope that helps. Here’s wishing you an escape from “Sync Hell.”

-Scott

P.S. only two spots are left for Joe McNally’s upcoming “The Complete Photographer” 6-day hands-on workshop in Florida. Check out the video where Joe describes the workshop at this link (the video is pretty amazing and inspiring – give it a quick watch and you’ll see what I mean. ).

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Hope you found that helpful!

Thursday I’m Off To England

I’m very excited to be speaking at ‘The Photography Show’ at the NEC in Birmingham. I’m speaking this Saturday, Sunday and Monday on everything from Photoshop to Travel Photography and AI, and I’m doing two book signings at the Rocky Nook booth. Plus, on Friday night, I’m shooting my first major league Rugby match – all in all, I am super psyched! I hope I get to meet you there in person. Tickets are at photographyshow.com

Have a great Lightroom Tip Tuesday!

-Scott

P.S. Have you signed up for the Lightroom Conference (you can save $100 if you register now). Here’s the link.

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