Lightroom Quick Tip: Changing Your Background Color
Hi gang, and happy Friday! ð
I know we’ve shared this one here before, but not everybody stops by every day (which is a darn shame I might add), but I saw that my in-house book editor Kim Doty shared this tip from the “Killer Tips” section of my Lightroom book on her Facebook page (by the way you should totally follow Kim on Facebook – she’s always doing cool giveaways and sharing tips and images and stuff – here’ the link to her page).
Anyway, this tip Kim shared was a shortcut for changing the background color of the area surrounding your images in Lightroom. Just right-click anywhere in the area surrounding your image and a pop-up menu appears (as seen below), and you can choose your new background color and/or add a pinstripe texture. Short, sweet, and to the point!
Since we’re so blatantly talking about our books, what the heck, let’s share Peter’s trailer for the book (below), so you hear it from him himself (like that “him himself” part? I hope Kim doesn’t see this, because as an Editor she would shoot me).
OK gang, I’m off to London!
I’m teaching my photography seminar there on Tuesday, and if you’re in the UK and you’re not one of the 300 or so photographers coming out to spend the day with me (and Brad), why the heck not? Come on out – you’ll learn a lot. I hope to see you there on Tuesday!
Cheers,
-Scott
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hi
can lightroom classic put background layer ?
Hello, Is there a way of making lightroom fonts (editing, etc.) more visible? Even on a 30″ monitor they are difficult to read. Thanks! Ken Niles
Scott’s tip was posted 7/15; I upgraded LRCC around June 16 and pinstripe was already removed then. Early adopters lose?
Roy, the link you posted — http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2012/03/russell-browns-texture-panel.html — is Russell Brown’s *cool and free* Photoshop photo overlay textures, not replacement background colors for LRCC’s Develop module.
https://creative.adobe.com/addons/search?pp=PSLR&q=/ contains 122 add-ins for LR; only 22 are “texture” and none are pinstripe.
Well, if removing background colors speeds LR, I’ll live with its absence.
Thanks for the tip, cheers
The pinstripe feature was removed in the new Lightroom CC and LR6 versions. It supposedly slowed down the performance of LR.
Strange, right clicking just gives me the ââ¬ÅBackground Colorââ¬Â section in the pop-up. No sight of ââ¬ÅBackground Textureââ¬Â.
Texture only works when you buy the Texture CC plugin for Lightroom CC at $1.99 a month.
Thanks for the info. I googled ââ¬Å Texture CC plugin for Lightroom CCââ¬Â and couldn’t find it. A link would be useful.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2012/03/russell-browns-texture-panel.html
Mac only feature ?
Nope. It works on my PC, as well. Not working on yours?
Yes, sorry about that. The Background Texture no longer comes standard with CC.
Looking forward to meeting you and Brad (the beard) Moore on Tuesday. As I missed your birthday grid show, the least I can do is buy you some cake ð
I tried the tip of changing the background color but in Lightroom CC there is no “none” nor “pinstripe” option. Looking at the screen above it looks like Lightroom 5 or 6. Did I miss something?
Mac feature only ?
Nope. It works on my PC, as well. Not working for you?
No, sorry. The Background Texture no longer comes standard with CC.
Thanks Kim – I see it was in PC ver 5.7.1 and not CC.
Lyle