Yes I know, how can the “Lightroom Question of the week” part of the blog be already up to number three and the – announced at the same moment – “Lightroom Tip of the week” only be up to it’s first edition.

Well folks, the thing is that I’m running on Eastern time, this being a consequence of a photo-trip through the Mid- and Far-East, pictures of which you can find at this blog’s Dutch-language travel blog, www.portraitsofasia.be. You might check the Portraits Of Iran section, as I haven’t uploaded any Bali-pictures yet, just some snaps.

And as they say here to us Westerners:  “You may have the (fancy) watch, but we have the time!”, meaning we should not be so obsessed with timing, but open ourselves up more to the flow of time (that’s easier for me to say right now than for you out there in New Zealand with maybe a zillion wedding pictures to run through Lightroom with a client breathing down your neck). So the blog is not exactly running like a Swiss Watch, but more like an old, battered pendulum-clock with a couple of loose screws the Dutch colonists left here a century ago.

Anyway, that being said, here’s the tip:

If you have a scrollwheel-mouse (and they even have those here in Indonesia, they just don’t have Lightroom ) you can adust the size of the Adjustment Brush with the little scrollwheel.

Now, that should help you speedying up the retouching of those zillion wedding pictures. Although, if you really have zillion of them, here’s another tip: get a tablet and a pressure-sensitive pen . There’s really no substitute for painting with them. Ever tried writing your signature in Photoshop with a mouse? Did it look like your two year old could do better? I rest my case!