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  • Worth-a-click

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:20 am
    Here's a few things worth checking out as you surf around today or this weekend. • Adobe has released a beta of Lightroom 2.6 (and Camera Raw 5.6). The major thing I can see is that it now supports the Canon 7D, G11, and Nikon D3s. You can get it over at Adobe Labs if you're dying for support for those new cameras. • My brand new Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers (co-authored with Scott Kelby) is out in stores and online. Since Adobe released the Mac and PC version this time around we changed things to cover both. • If you're a photographer (of any level) and…

  • Lightroom Sharpening – Which Brush to use?

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:17 pm
    Over the last few months, I've done a few of those Before/After videos that involve sharpening as one of the steps. Each time I've done it, I go into Photoshop and do the sharpening there. I've noticed a number of good comment/questions asking about why I don't use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to sharpen instead. So it got me thinking about why. I mean, I knew sharpening was there in Lightroom and that I could selectively do it with the Adjustment Brush but I never really find myself using it. So here's the answer(s) that I've come up with: 1) Old mentality of sharpening last I've had a…

  • Tip – Fading a Lightroom Preset

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:19 am
    I've got a big article due for Photoshop User magazine this week so I'm gonna make this one short. In fact, I'm being so lazy today that I'm stealing a tip from some one else. See, for a while now I'd have to say the most common preset-related question I get is how to fade a preset. Say the effect is just too strong and you don't feel like going through each slider and lessening the amount it applies. Instead you basically want a volume control for the preset. Well the other day Piet (one of the blog readers) posted a comment pointing me to a video he's done on fading Lightroom presets. Now…

  • Tip – Graduated Filter Modifier Keys

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    13 Nov 2009 | 5:50 am
    First off, thanks for all the great feedback on the Before/After video the other day. For those of you who watched it (and commented on it), the grayish pumpkin that I darkened was brought up a few times. I thought about trying to do something more with it, but then I showed the photo to several people including the mom in the photo. I asked about the pumpkin and the resounding answer was "What pumpkin?" - mission accomplished in my book :-) But I'll probably try to tweak it as a personal mission to see if I can add just a little color back in without looking to fakey. Tip #1: Anyway, I…

  • Video – Before & After Family Photo

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    11 Nov 2009 | 8:38 am
    Please install flash player to view video. Here's another one of those before and after videos for you folks. I know these are popular because they really show the workflow and the link between the two programs we tend to use most - Lightroom and Photoshop. I thought this particular photo made a great candidate because I was able to do some very neat things in Lightroom (more than a lot of people think is possible) but I also needed to move into Photoshop for some quick retouching. Hope you enjoy it. I'm actually taking the day off to spend with the family since they're off from school, but…
 
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  • Lightroom Collections – Bringing Your Images Together

    mgray
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:04 pm
    Much has been mentioned lately about using Collections in Lightroom for organizing your images as opposed to using your system folders you store your images in. Even if you maintain a meticulous folder structure, organizing your photos on your hard drive, it can sometimes become cumbersome finding particular images, or working with images that are in different folders. I am not saying Collections will allow you to be sloppy about your image storage (although it can help if you are disorganized) but you really should be using Collections in Lightroom to aide you in your organizational flow.

  • Shootin’ ain’t all ya’ do – The business of doing business

    Brandon Oelling
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:41 am
    The recession sucks. It’s worldwide, touching practically every industry, and the resulting negative side effects have hit many photographers squarely on the chin. That being said, it’s high time we bring a little perspective to this situation as it relates to the business of photography – and those of you who make (or are thinking of making) a living from it. I personally have numerous clients who are booked and paid for over a years worth of projects – this includes portrait, wedding, news, and editorial photographers. Many veteran photographers will say things like…

  • Happy Birthday X-Equals!

    Brandon Oelling
    11 Nov 2009 | 7:09 pm
    On November 12, 2007 I authored my first post on X-Equals titled Removing the Night. I never could have imagined where we would be 2 years later, it’s been an AWESOME ride thus far. I’ve met countless X-Equals Blog readers, fielded hundreds of emails (some nice, some not so nice), and argued the finer points of workflow, Aperture versus Lightroom, and DNG versuse factory RAW – to name a few. I wouldn’t change a thing. Rather than gloat I am going to thank some folks that helped us get to this point: My wife Julie for watching a LOT of TV by herself while I sat beside…

  • In-Depth Workflow Mastery – The X-Equals Series

    Brandon Oelling
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:32 am
    If you’re like me, you have a pretty similar workflow no matter what type of project you are working on. It makes sense, we’re creatures of habit. And … admit it, we’re pretty lazy when it comes to truly mastering new features or workflow concepts that are new to us. “I just want to know enough to get the job done.” is a line I hear a few times a week from photographers. While I can empathize with this notion, sometimes it makes a lot of sense to dig deeper into a particular feature or workflow as it oftentimes has a big effect on the quality and efficiency…

  • Turn down the volume – Noise Reduction in Lightroom

    mgray
    4 Nov 2009 | 6:28 pm
    When it comes to shooting high ISO images and processing in Lightroom, the general consensus is Lightroom is unable to do a reasonable job at reducing noise. While it is true that Lightroom will not perform as well as Noise Ninja or Nik Dfine day in and day out, Lightroom can handle much of you Noise Reduction needs. Before we go further, I want to reinforce, Lightroom is highly capable in the realm of Noise Reduction but is a general purpose editor. Noise Ninja and Define are both plug-ins specifically designed for the purpose of removing noise. If you go in expecting to get identical…
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  • Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 now on Labs

    Sean McCormack
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:36 pm
    Tom Hogarty has announced the availability of Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 at Adobe Labs. Improved camera support includes the following cameras: Canon EOS 7D, Canon PowerShot G11, Canon PowerShot S90, Leaf Aptus II 5, Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31, Nikon D3s, Olympus E-P2, Pentax K-x, Panasonic FZ38, Sigma DP1s, Sony A500, Sony A550 and Sony A850. There are a number of bug fixes also. An issue limited to Mac customers using PowerPC hardware has been corrected. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to…

  • Lightroom 3 Beta help is now Live.

    Sean McCormack
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:12 am
    Anita Dennis has been in touch to get word out that Help is now available for Lightroom 3 Beta. Pressing F1, or using Help>Lightroom Help will take you there. For the official announcement and links to specific topics, check out the official documentation blog Phosphors.

  • Playing with Panels

    Sean McCormack
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:37 am
    Lightroom makes extensive use of panels in order to simplify workflow. Often we’re in and out of panels all the time without making the best use of them. So here’s some tips on improving your panel usage. Command(Mac)/Control click(PC) on any panel to collapse all the individual panels. Especially useful if all the panels are open and the one you want is at the bottom. Option (Mac)/ Alt (PC) click on a panel header to activate ‘Solo Mode’. In Solo Mode, only one panel at a time is open. Repeating the Alt/Option click will deactivate Solo Mode. Hovering on the inner…

  • Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos

    Sean McCormack
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:41 pm
    The new Publish option in Lightroom 3 Beta allows you a handy way to control what photos are on your iPhone without iPhoto. Fortunately iTunes allows you to select a folder that will sync to the iPhone instead. First up, create a folder called iPhone on your hard drive. Next, in Lightroom 3 Beta’s Library Module, go to the Publish Services section on the bottom of the left panel. Click on the ‘+’ beside ‘Publish Services’ and choose ‘Manage Publish Connections’. This opens a dialog box that’s remarkably similar to Export. The left hand side has…

  • TTG Highslide update to 1.8

    Sean McCormack
    3 Nov 2009 | 8:38 pm
    Matthew Campagna has announced the release of TTG Highslide and Highslide Pro v1.8. The 1.8 update addresses all known and newly discovered bugs, validation errors and sore points in TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. All gallery components now validate according to W3C XHTML/Strict specifications, except the PayPal shopping cart, which misses Strict validation by only two words forming an important string for which there are no Strict replacements; it validates perfectly well as XHTML/Transitional instead. Improvements include some new control sliders, fixed image border…
 
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  • Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 available on Labs

    Richard Earney
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:03 pm
    Adobe Labs is now hosting Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 for you to try out before they are officially released. The following new cameras are supported: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s Olympus E-P2 Pentax K-x Panasonic FZ38 Sigma DP1s Sony A500,  A550,  A850 There are extra release notes which can be found on Lightroom Journal.

  • Lightroom 3 Beta Help available

    Richard Earney
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:24 pm
    The online community help resource for Lightroom 3 Beta has been made live. From Lightroom 3 Beta, choose Help > Lightroom Help… (F1). Or you can use the direct link http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html You will find a variety of topics relating to LR 3, including What’s New, Import, Publish Services, Watermarking, FilmGrain, Process Versions, Postcrop Vignette’s, Video Slideshows and Custom Print Packages. It is pre-release, so the usual commenting features are not available, but the intention is that they will be there soon.

  • Timelapse from Lightroom 3 Beta

    Richard Earney
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:39 am
    As a novice devotee of timelapse photography, I was intrigued when I first saw the ability to Slideshow > Export to Video in the Lightroom 3 builds, and recent work by Sean McCormack, Andy Rahn, Lee Jay Fingersh and Matt Dawson has shown how versatile it is. Sean has written Direct Timelapse Video Export from Lightroom for Lightroom News and it is well worth a read.

  • Lightroom 3 Beta: The Import Experience*

    Richard Earney
    24 Oct 2009 | 9:43 am
    Wade Heninger describes some of the improvements in the Lightroom 3 Beta Import Dialog on his blog. He doesn’t seem 100% convinced and neither am I. Generally there is a lot to praise about the new dialog. Not only are there the different views, Expanded and Compact but there are many more useful options. Compact View will be very useful for photographers who have a consistent workflow where they simply wish to import everything from a consistent source (say, a CF card) to a consistent destination. Import Presets will help apply your preferred settings too. The sooner that you are able…

  • Further Lightroom 3.0 Beta Resources

    Richard Earney
    24 Oct 2009 | 1:59 am
    The initial feedback on Lightroom 3.0 is looking positive. There are naturally a few complaints about missing features (see comments on the last post) but ,as mentioned here and in other places, this Beta is a snapshot in time and there is more to come in the final release. Michael Reichmann of Luminous Landscape takes a look at the Public Beta as well as the benefits to Adobe of the Public Beta process. Ian Lyons also looks in depth at the new features at Computer Darkroom. John Beardsworth has a round-up of other resources as well as six quick tips: Collections in Develop, Slideshow Export,…
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  • Playing with Panels

    17 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Lightroom makes extensive use of panels in order to simplify workflow. Often we're in and out of panels all the time without making the best use of them. So here's some tips on improving your panel usage. Command(Mac)/Control click(PC) on any panel to collapse all the individual panels. Especially useful if all the panels are open and the one you want is at the bottom. Option (Mac)/ Alt (PC) click on a panel header to activate 'Solo Mode'. In Solo Mode, only one panel at a time is open. Repeating the Alt/Option click will deactivate Solo Mode. Hovering on the inner edge of a panel will turn…

  • Doing It The Hard Way

    14 Nov 2009 | 11:54 pm
    This post is a bit geeky/nerdy, so don't feel obliged to read it! At the start of October, Tweetphoto changed their API. As most folk know nothing about code, it's kinda like they changed the combination to the lock. That meant loads of whinging from me as the old API did everything I needed. I think that made them add a new section to the API for me, but alas I couldn't get it to work. There was loads of back and forth, and I'm sure my frustration was showing. They were patient with me, but I still couldn't get an upload going. All the code seemed perfect, in line with the new API, but no…

  • Photoshop User: Sharpening in Lightroom

    11 Nov 2009 | 7:56 pm
    As promised, here a pdf of my Photoshop User magazine article from the Oct/Nov issue. For those unaware, Photoshop User magazine is the offical NAPP members magazine covering a range of general photography news, Photoshop and Lightroom articles. Membership is $99 per annum and includes a wealth of discounts that more than pay this back.

  • Which Collections are my photo in?

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:48 pm
    One new little feature in Lightroom 3 Beta is an answer to one of the Skribit questions in my sidebar. Well, the answer is by clicking on the Collection Badge. You'll then see a list of the collections a file is in.

  • Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:54 am
    The new Publish option in Lightroom 3 Beta allows you a handy way to control what photos are on your iPhone without iPhoto. Fortunately iTunes allows you to select a folder that will sync to the iPhone instead. First up, create a folder called iPhone on your hard drive. Next, in Lightroom 3 Beta's Library Module, go to the Publish Services section on the bottom of the left panel. Click on the '+' beside 'Publish Services' and choose 'Manage Publish Connections'. This opens a dialog box that's remarkably similar to Export.The left hand side has 2 panels, Connections and Post Process Actions.
 
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  • Lightroom 3 Beta Help Now Available

    Gene McCullagh
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:45 am
    Adobe today launched the help system for Lightroom 3 Beta! You can access it by pressing F1 while in Lightroom 3 Beta or by pointing your browser at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html . Commenting will be enabled shortly so get ready! for more details visit the article on Phosphors, the blog from the Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge teams! Copyright © 2009 — Gene McCullaghALL RIGHTS RESERVED Adobe® and Lightroom® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Lightroom Secrets is independently published and not endorsed or sponsored by Adobe…

  • Lightroom Q&A #1

    Gene McCullagh
    15 Nov 2009 | 5:52 am
    We’ve had some great questions come in in response to Got Questions? Just Ask! I’ll try to keep up so keep them coming! Let’s dive right in… Q: Do I need to use the Adobe Bridge at all if I have Ligthroom and CS4? How does Lightroom replace the bridge (I’ve never used it b4)? A: Perhaps the most basic difference between Lightroom and Bridge is how each approaches file management. Lightroom is a database oriented approach while Bridge is a navigational approach. Bridge will show you all file currently resident on your drive. Lightroom only shows you files that you…

  • Spotlight: Ian Farlow

    Gene McCullagh
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    There are many sources of information about Lightroom out there on the web. Official sites from Adobe, sites dedicated to Lightroom (such as this one), sites where Lightroom is one of many areas covered, and numerous forums where Lightroom users can gather. But there is only one place that Lightroom enthusiasts can truly call home – Lightroom Forums. This is the friendliest and most helpful group of Lightroom users to be found anywhere. Educational discussions, a free exchange of information, an atmosphere where new members can feel comfortable to ask any question. No snarkyness here!

  • Got Questions? Just Ask!

    Gene McCullagh
    11 Nov 2009 | 5:41 am
    Do you have questions about Lightroom? Can’t find the answers out there on the web? Have no fear! We’re going to try something new at Lightroom Secrets – Reader Q and A! Send me your questions. I will compile and answer them here on the site. So if you have a Lightroom related question you can send it to questions [at] lightroomsecrets [dot] com or send out a tweet using the hashtag #LRSQA. Operators are standing by… Copyright © 2009 — Gene McCullaghALL RIGHTS RESERVED Adobe® and Lightroom® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Lightroom…

  • Lookin’ Sharp

    Gene McCullagh
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:48 am
    Sharpening your images is another step from capture to output. Just like exposure, clarity, cropping, and other adjustments, sharpening plays an important role in the creative process. But when should you apply sharpening? How much should you sharpen? What does sharpening do? Let’s take a look at sharpening and how Lightroom handles the process. Even if you have the best glass and your focusing system is top of the line you cannot avoid the introduction of some softness during the digital imaging process. To start, the sensor converts analog light to digital information when you press…
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  • LR3 Beta – Popular Bugs & Forum Threads

    Victoria Bampton
    30 Oct 2009 | 11:57 am
    Updated with a few more regular bugs 9th November. Lightroom 3 beta’s been out for a week now, and the main beta forum alone has seen nearly 3000 posts already.  So, a quick run down of the most popular themes and bugs… No PPC, No Tiger – yes, you read that correctly, minimum system specs for Mac are Intel processor and 10.5.6 or newer.  The subject has been beaten to death now. Soft Proofing is not in LR3 beta.  LR3 is not feature complete.  Jeff Schewe has been dropping heavy hints, but no one can say what will or will not be in the final release. Lens correction…

  • Lightroom 3 Beta Book – Extracts now available

    Victoria Bampton
    29 Oct 2009 | 3:02 pm
    Just a quick post – the free PDF extracts and full table of contents for Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta – The Missing FAQ are now online at http://www.lightroomqueen.com/lrqebook3.php. You can download the beta book today, and get the final release included in the price when version 3 is finally released.  The book’s had a great reception so far!

  • What’s new in Lightroom 3.0 Beta?

    Victoria Bampton
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:21 pm
    Adobe have just announced the release of Adobe Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta! Here’s the official announcement: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/ And the download link, of course! http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/ So what’s new so far…?   Image Quality One of the primary improvements in 3.0 beta is image quality. Lightroom’s been taken back to its bare bones and the raw processing engine has been given a complete overhaul. Even the demosaic algorithms have been substantially improved to give a cleaner file which will respond better to subsequent…

  • Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta – The Missing FAQ Book available now!

    Victoria Bampton
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    To coincide with the release of Lightroom 3 Beta, I am proud to announce the release of my new book – Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ – and the rough cut is available for immediate download. The Lightroom 2 version of the book’s had such great reviews, I had to update it for version 3! You can pre-order the final Lightroom 3 PDF or paperback, which are due for release at the same time as Lightroom 3 final, and anyone pre-ordering gets immediate access to the PDF rough cut free of charge. What’s a rough cut? A rough cut of a book is like a beta version –…

  • Lightroom Secrets Spotlight

    Victoria Bampton
    19 Oct 2009 | 2:04 pm
    I’m still here… very busy with a huge project… watch this space a little longer to find out what I’ve been up to! In the meantime, I’m in the spotlight at Lightroom Secrets this week. Gene’s got a great site, so go and have a wander round and get your Lightroom fix.
 
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  • Like facebook but just about photography!

    Pierre
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:42 pm
    Greetings all! I’ve just made a special social network for all of you who are interested in photography, post-processing, sharing thoughts and everything related to it. Facebook is great but it’s about just everything. The Social Photo Network I’ve started are for those who like to share thoughts, photos, videos with others who have the same [...]

  • Export to FTP with Lightroom

    Pierre
    27 Oct 2009 | 1:19 pm
    When you’re making webgalleries in Lightroom you are able to upload your gallery directly to an FTP-server. But if you are a photographer who just wants to upload your files to an FTP-server, without the gallery files (html, flash etc.) you’re toast… until now. Scott (Principal Photographer) mailed me and asked if I knew any [...]

  • Lightroom 3 public beta is here!

    Pierre
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:36 am
    Today you can download the latest release of Lightroom 3 beta. The Adobe team have really made some nice adjustments on this release compared to LR 2 with lots of new and improved functions. What’s new in Lightroom 3? There are so many new things so you should really download a copy of the beta release yourself, [...]

  • PH in Japanese or Greek? No problem

    Pierre
    14 Oct 2009 | 5:21 am
    I’m not sure if you have noticed it, but in the sidebar I added a translation tool a couple of weeks ago. Everyone knows these translation tools doesn’t match a human translation, but it’s good enough if you just want to get a summary of what the content is about. Try it out to see [...]

  • 6 new presets to “wow” your photos

    Pierre
    12 Oct 2009 | 5:34 pm
    I’ve been sitting here for hours now. Playing around in Lightroom, testing and adjusting before I finally got satisfied. Photoshop have a nice feature called “Curve adjustments” where you can change the color channels (RGB) separately with a few clicks with your mouse. I really wish Lightroom had that feature built in. Anyway, I started [...]
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  • Special “This Weekend Only” Deal on OnOne Software’s Photoshop Plug-in Suite 5

    Scott
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:38 pm
    Hey gang—the huge success of last week’s MPIX.com deal really paid off, and we’ve been in contact with a number of companies who are willing to give you guys a “This Weekend Only” special discount. This week, the fine folks over at OnOne Software are offering readers of my blog $200 off their new “Plug-In Suite 5″ which includes the most recent versions of their award-winning Photoshop Plug-ins: Genuine Fractals for resizing Mask Pro for removing unwanted backgrounds PhotoTune for color correction FocalPoint for selective focus PhotoTools and…

  • Thursday News Stuff

    Scott
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:41 pm
    Howdy folks. First a quick thanks to photographer Bruce DeBoer for his inspiring Guest Blog post yesterday here on the blog. Very cool stuff! Now, onto the news! Nikon releases FREE “Learn & Explore” iPhone App This one slipped by me, but luckily John “The Snake” Barrett dropped me a line to let me know that Nikon has released a FREE iPhone App called “Learn & Explore,” which not only has tips for using your Nikon camera, but it also has access to back issues of “Nikon World Magazine” (John let me know that the issue I’m in is…

  • Breaking News: My New Photoshop Elements 8 Book is in Bookstores!

    Scott
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:32 pm
    Just a quick heads up; My Photoshop Elements 8 book for Digital Photographers (which I co-authored with Matt Kloskowski), is now in bookstores (just in time for the holidays). Anyway, you can pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Borders, or wherever really great books that come out just in time to make a perfect Holiday gift are sold.

  • It’s “Guest Blog Wednesday” featuring Bruce DeBoer!

    Brad
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:51 am
    Looking at photography is one of my favorite pass-times. It’s awesome how the great photographers can make me actually feel the moment of capture. I enjoy the greatness of their talent. What a trap. As if photography wasn’t full time enough, lately I’ve been charging head down in an ancillary effort to learn what drives people to create. Research, writing, listening and conducting interviews across all disciplines while dissecting my own work. Most photographers I know can recall nearly every click of the shutter, and those book-worthy gems capture more than just a replica of the…

  • Catch our “Adobe Creative Suite Unleashed” Tour This Friday in San Diego

    Scott
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:18 pm
    If you’re in the San Diego area, Dave Cross and RC Concepcion, are coming to San Diego this Friday with our Adobe CS4 Creative Suite Unleashed Tour, and then onto Boston on December 1st. If you haven’t had a chance to catch this special Adobe-sponsored tour, you don’t want to miss it, as they cover everything from Illustrator to InDesign, from Photoshop to Flash, and how it all works together. This special tour is only $49 (or just $39 for NAPP members), and you can get all the details, or sign up, right here. Hope we’ll see you San Diego on Friday, or in Boston in…
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  • John Beardsworth on “10 Things I Wish I Could Tell a Slightly Less Novice Lightroom User”

    David
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:48 am
    Scott Kelby, president of the NAPP, posted an insightful article entitled “10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users” last week. Today, I came across a similar post from Lightroom expert John Beardsworth entitled 10 Things I Wish I Could Tell a Slightly Less New Lightroom User.” John Beardsworth post is designed for the “slightly less new” Lightroom user, but like Mr. Kelby’s I believe that this article is also well worth your time. On a personal note, I am delighted to see that John Beardsworth agrees with me about the potential headaches that multiple…

  • Lightroom 2.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 Release Candidates Available

    Scott Rouse
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am
    Adobe has posted the release candidate versions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 on the Adobe Labs website. The direct links to information and download are http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Lightroom_2.6 and http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Camera_Raw_5.6. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that these updates are well-tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The Lightroom team would like the community to help verify the quality of this update through normal usage as this will…

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta Help Now Online

    David
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:19 am
    Adobe posted a new website today to support the Lightroom 3 beta release. Scott and I are already signed up as moderators for the new site and are looking forward to helping folks learn Lightroom v3. Here’s a link to the new Adobe Lightroom 3 beta help site.

  • DpBestflow.org from the ASMP: Worth your Time

    David
    14 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) just released a guidebook–actually it is a multimedia website–that covers the best practices in every aspect of digital imaging technology! I am confident that the time you spend on the dpBestflow.org site will be time well spent. All of us need this kind of well-researched advice on the best ways to shoot, store, archive, and manage our images in this modern digital world. Here’s a video tour for their website. StartHere from ASMP dpBestflow on Vimeo. This project comes from some of the best minds in the industry and it was…

  • Shameless Self-Promotion: My Grand Canyon National Park Photo Gallery

    David
    11 Nov 2009 | 12:22 pm
    Hello friends, I hope that you will take a minute to enjoy these landscape and whitewater rafting photographs from my river trips through Grand Canyon National Park. Grand Canyon National Park – Images by David Marx For fine-art prints, or stock photography licensing rights, please visit www.davidmarx.com.  Thanks for watching.
 
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  • 8 versus 16 bit — What Does It Really Mean?

    Laura Shoe
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:19 pm
    (Click on the post title to view the post in full-screen mode.) You may be shooting in raw rather than jpeg because you know that raw files contain more information and because they are unprocessed, giving you more flexibility.  But how do they contain more information?  Among other things, raw files are captured at a higher bit depth — depending on the camera, 12, 14 or 16 bit, compared to 8 bit for jpegs.   Whether 12, 14 or 16, these higher bit-depth files potentially contain much more information than 8 bit files. What’s the big deal?   For each pixel in your image, the…

  • Applying Develop Settings to Groups of Images

    Laura Shoe
    8 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pm
    If you are looking to save time as you work a shoot, before you start developing it think ahead about which images are shot under similar conditions and therefore need similar adjustments, or which images you  you want similar treatments for (e.g. black and white), and apply your changes to these groups of images all at once. Lightroom is a relatively new program, but there are already multiple ways of accomplishing this,  each with a different twist.   You have three main choices: 1.  Make changes to your first image and then synchronize the settings: After making the changes to the…

  • Some Cool Composites

    Laura Shoe
    28 Oct 2009 | 4:29 pm
    I post this link particularly for RMSP students who took my compositing classes this summer.  Enjoy!  

  • More LR3 Beta Information

    Laura Shoe
    22 Oct 2009 | 10:53 am
    Here’s a link to a write up by Victoria Bampton on what’s new in the LR3 beta.  Keep in mind that this is a very early beta — some of the new features will disappear, others will be added, and you will encounter bugs (particularly known are render preview issues).   At the bottom of Victoria’s post are links to many other blogs with articles on LR3.

  • Lightroom 3 Beta Now Available

    Laura Shoe
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:51 am
    Lightroom 3 won’t officially be released until 2010, but tonight Adobe Labs announced the release of its first public beta.  If you want to try it out, kick the tires, and join in providing feedback to Adobe on LR3, click here to go to Adobe Labs and download the software. Is it all we need in LR?  No (for one thing, we absolutely need soft proofing.)  Is it a step in the right direction?  Yes.  There are feature enhancements, but importantly, Adobe has focused on improving performance by rebuilding the LR architecture.  Adobe recognizes that we are building very large catalogs of…
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  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Develop Module Histogram and Clipping Indicators

    Jerry Courvoisier
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:33 am
    The Histogram The Histogram heading is at the top of the right Panel within the Develop Module. The Histogram is a step up from the Histogram displayed in the Library module because it is segmented into four interactive elements. When you position the mouse pointer in any one of the four segments and click and hold down the mouse button, you can push the double arrow cursor to the left or right to adjust how much lighter or darker the image is within the segment. These segments correspond to the Basic heading adjustments for Blacks, Fill Light, Recovery and Exposure. (Fig 7.1). Shadows and…

  • Lightroom’s Develop Adjustments Presets Creating a Productive Workflow!

    Jerry Courvoisier
    4 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pm
    The Lightroom Develop module comes with a series of default Presets loaded with application. In the example here (fig 6.1) the “ Creative – Cyanotype” is highlighted. You can see a preview of the Preset applied in the Navigator panel directly above the list by simply parking the cursor over the Preset.  For those of you with commitment issues, you are never committed to the change until you actually apply the Preset by clicking once directly on the selected image adjustment. Certainly you can always reset the image in the develop module or command (Mac) / Control (Windows) z to…

  • Lightroom Import Backup

    Jerry Courvoisier
    8 Oct 2009 | 2:54 pm
    Lightroom Import Backup I frequently field questions about the Back Up feature in the Lightroom import dialog box. In the example illustration, (fig5.1) the Lightroom Import dialog box for the inserted compact flash card has, some , File Naming, Develop Settings, Metadata and Keywords applied to the images being introduced to the current catalog. The “Backup to” feature is checked and the path to the location is users/jer/Pictures/Lightroom/ Download Backups. Photographers get the wrong impression that the images are backed up to the chosen location and the imported back up contains all…

  • The Lightroom Catalog Backup

    Jerry Courvoisier
    27 Sep 2009 | 10:15 pm
    Access the Catalog Settings on the Mac, go to the menu Lightroom>Catalog Settings Or within the Preferences dialog panel > General Tab > Go to Catalog Settings (fig 4.1) Within the Lightroom Catalog Settings, is a Back up Catalog selection feature. (Fig 4.2) This item setting is crystal clear and states “Back up Catalog”. Do not think for one minute that the selection function is backing up the associated images with the catalog. Please understand that this feature is only backing up the .lrcat data file. Here the choice of your pain threshold is determined in relation to the…

  • Importing Lightroom Catalogs from my Laptop to the Studio Computer

    Jerry Courvoisier
    4 Sep 2009 | 8:21 am
    This tip describes the simple process of importing my laptop catalogs into my studio computer Lightroom Master Catalogs after returning from a week on the road. While on the road with my travel computer, I created a separate catalog for each event, job, and topic. In addition I devoted some time to inputting my keywords, editing, rating and some basic image adjustments. Most heavy lifting on the image development side is performed on my studio tower computer. Now I want to import each catalog and the images from the laptop and merge it with the appropriate master catalog resident on my studio…
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    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:20 am
    Here's a few things worth checking out as you surf around today or this weekend. • Adobe has released a beta of Lightroom 2.6 (and Camera Raw 5.6). The major thing I can see is that it now supports the Canon 7D, G11, and Nikon D3s. You can get it over at Adobe Labs if you're dying for support for those new cameras. • My brand new Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers (co-authored with Scott Kelby) is out in stores and online. Since Adobe released the Mac and PC version this time around we changed things to cover both. • If you're a photographer (of any level) and…

  • Lightroom Sharpening – Which Brush to use?

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:17 pm
    Over the last few months, I've done a few of those Before/After videos that involve sharpening as one of the steps. Each time I've done it, I go into Photoshop and do the sharpening there. I've noticed a number of good comment/questions asking about why I don't use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to sharpen instead. So it got me thinking about why. I mean, I knew sharpening was there in Lightroom and that I could selectively do it with the Adjustment Brush but I never really find myself using it. So here's the answer(s) that I've come up with: 1) Old mentality of sharpening last I've had a…

  • Tip – Fading a Lightroom Preset

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:19 am
    I've got a big article due for Photoshop User magazine this week so I'm gonna make this one short. In fact, I'm being so lazy today that I'm stealing a tip from some one else. See, for a while now I'd have to say the most common preset-related question I get is how to fade a preset. Say the effect is just too strong and you don't feel like going through each slider and lessening the amount it applies. Instead you basically want a volume control for the preset. Well the other day Piet (one of the blog readers) posted a comment pointing me to a video he's done on fading Lightroom presets. Now…

  • Tip – Graduated Filter Modifier Keys

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    13 Nov 2009 | 5:50 am
    First off, thanks for all the great feedback on the Before/After video the other day. For those of you who watched it (and commented on it), the grayish pumpkin that I darkened was brought up a few times. I thought about trying to do something more with it, but then I showed the photo to several people including the mom in the photo. I asked about the pumpkin and the resounding answer was "What pumpkin?" - mission accomplished in my book :-) But I'll probably try to tweak it as a personal mission to see if I can add just a little color back in without looking to fakey. Tip #1: Anyway, I…

  • Video – Before & After Family Photo

    jgilbert@photoshopuser.com (Matt Kloskowski)
    11 Nov 2009 | 8:38 am
    Please install flash player to view video. Here's another one of those before and after videos for you folks. I know these are popular because they really show the workflow and the link between the two programs we tend to use most - Lightroom and Photoshop. I thought this particular photo made a great candidate because I was able to do some very neat things in Lightroom (more than a lot of people think is possible) but I also needed to move into Photoshop for some quick retouching. Hope you enjoy it. I'm actually taking the day off to spend with the family since they're off from school, but…
 
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