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I did something similar a year ago. I'm not an expert in cs3 at all, however I found that if I applied the standard greyscale adjusment I then I got a uniformity of b&w across the prints. I also used some noise and sharpen in rough handfuls and the clean-up was impressive - noise>dust and...

Hi guys, I'm hoping someone can help.... Recently after making a set of changes across various images in LR (1.4) I've then wanted to correct a step and so used Ctrl Z. However the impact has been to undo every change that I have made since I opened LR, whether they are edits or ratings...

Here's mine: A slow coastal train on a cold winter's day...

Thanks for that guys. With 50 scanned B+W prints with loads of artefacts to tidy up for this album, I'll resist the option to go to mono and re-color this one, especially as every step would be new to me! The sort of result CT has achieved would be great. CT - would you mind sharing the...

Yep, that's roughly where I got to! I'm hoping someone can offer some additional insights.

My step-grandmother just celebrated her 100th birthday and we're putting together a photobook of images from her life together with some from the celebration that just took place. The image below is of her some(!) years ago and I'd like to include it but with better colour - this seems both...

Oops, getting carried away - you can't cut and paste folders but you can drag them!

I'd suggest that you re-organsise the folders while you are in Lightroom - you can drag, cut and paste etc easily enough. That way when you then next open up LR it doesn't get into a pickle about missing files (the folders you moved in windows) or ask you whether any files are duplicates. (And...

I went through this whole game a few months ago - and magically when I took the advice here and bought a colour calibration tool it all neatly sorted itself out. It's lovely having the confidence that it all works. There's quite a few of us who have gone through this loop and asked similar...

I was just about to say no when I found one! Switching it off gets me back the colours I was expecting (I hadn't realised it had affected other layers too, they are not so obvious). I can't now work out what I had it in there for, so I've taken it out, rather than changed the layer order. I...

Hi, Hopefully someone can help me out - trying to finish something couple of hours to get printed and framed this afternoon and take to a friends wedding tomorrow! The problem - I have a file in photoshop (one I've created and flattened) that when I copy or drag it into the file I want it...

Nepal is a fantastic photographic experience - mountainous scenery, temples, people - often all 3 at once! We walked the Annapurna circuit (not a trivial endeavour but certainly achievable by anyone with reasonable walking fitness) and it was an amazing place to be. Tibet, Bhutan etc are by...

Thanks for all that, I've had a go at all my pics from there now using the various bits of advice and they're a lot better. It goes to prove how much room to play there is with raw files... cheers Dean

Thanks guys. Yes - I think I've resolved never to throw them away! It was just a question of which sliders...! And these worked for me too. I thought I had played with saturation already (amongst others), expecting benefit from there, it must be the combination with exposure that I...

Hi, I was sent this pic of me in action: It looks pretty much like how I remember the colours - however the picture I took moments later, below, completely lacks these dynamic colours. His was a jpeg, mine I took in raw. I guess I'm going wrong somewhere in my PP in LR.... (My whole...