New Post on PhotoFocus and a Speed Tip
The name of the post is Avoiding Problems + Improving Performance = Happy Lightroom User and with it I tried to cover the basic tips that account for nearly a third of the problems people ask me about. It may seem simple, but you’d be surprised how often it comes up and how easy it can be to overlook. Once you finish that post be sure to check out the tutorial on boosting Lightroom performance

Tutorial: Boosting Lightroom Performance
New: Updated for Lightroom 3 Beta! Some regular maintenance and a little TLC from you will go a long way toward improving your Lightroom experience and boosting its performance. Here are five things to get you moving faster right now. 1. Free up space on your startup drive. You want to keep at least 15-20% (or more) of your startup drive free and clear of data at all times. Your operating system and some applications need the elbowroom to operate. Running out of space can seriously impact performance. Simple things like emptying your recycle bin/trash, moving data to another internal or external drive or uninstalling unused applications can recover an amazi

Replacing the Lightroom Preference File
Also known as trashing the prefs, this is the act of forcing Lightroom to create a clean preference file in the hopes that it fixes whatever strange Lightroom problem you might be having. The preference file is where Lightroom stores all the settings you configure in the Lightroom > Preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (Win) dialog. Along with all those settings Lightroom stores other data such as the location of your catalog file and which catalogs you recently opened among other things. If Lightroom, or if your entire system, crashes shuts down unexpectedly this preference file can become corrupted, which can lead to problems ranging from more crashing to

Good news for Lightroom users on Snow Leopard!
If you are  using Lightroom on a 64 bit capable Mac you will be glad to know the latest update to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) fixes the bug that crippled the sending of multiple photos from Lightroom to Photoshop for editing. Previously, if you selected 3 or more photos in Lightroom and tried to send them to Photoshop for panorama stitching, HDR merging or opening as layers Photoshop would open but no photos would appear. The short term fix for this was to run Lightroom in 32 bit mode and all functionality for sending to Photoshop was restored. The downside being that you couldn’t run Lightroom in 64 bit mode. So, install

Photoshop User Magazine December 2009 Issue is Out
Always happy to see the new issue of Photoshop User sitting in my mailbox! This issue ends the year with Scott Kelby’s Gonzo Gear Guide, which is nothing short of gonzo. Time to update my Amazon wishlist! In the Lightroom section you’ll find my Under the Loupe column where I cover the import backup function and give a shout out to ImageIngester as an interesting front-end to Lightroom. The reason I like I