Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Friday!

Every week I compile a nice list of the goings-on, as it were, in the Lightroom world.  Blog posts, tips, tricks and even video tutorials and freebies adorn these pages.  So gear up, get ready for some book (or at least screen) learnin’ and lets have at it.

• Jeffrey Friedl has a great followup article on getting photos from Lightroom to iPad.  Earlier this week he announced two new plugins for Lightroom (one tying in with the aforementioned iPad workflow).
• Laura Shoe is holding a Lightroom Fundamentals Workshop Feb 18-19, 2012 in Seattle.  Not to be outdone, she has a few tips on cropping and DNG.
• X-Equals has a nice writeup on the Pring Module in LR4.
• LightroomKillerTips.com looks at making Selective White Balance Changes

So she did and I’m happy to offer them to you today.

LightroomPresets.com‘s goal is to help you make more of your Lightroom time.  Of course, that was why Lightroom was designed and developed – and the presets feature is a great way to speed your workflow.  If you do your job, presets can quickly get you to where you want to go and can help you define a signature look for your images.

Laura offers some pretty cutting edge sets that get you the looks currently popular with many working portrait and wedding photographers.

Don’t be afraid to tweak and edit them – create your own look using these as a base.  Here is an example:

Beyond presets, I note that Laura also offers brushes, textures and even has adapted her presets to work with ACR  (say HI to 2003 for me!)  I also noted that she has some great non-preset related business resources and video tutorials if you’re new to Lightroom.

So swing by her site and check it out.

Add her blog  to your RSS reader.

I know I’ve spent a lot of time refining my basic black and white preset that I use for all my ballet work.  For me, presets are the embodiment of the way in which I choose to portray my work – much like I would have done in the darkroom ages ago: warm tone paper, slightly gritty and contrasty look enhanced with specific developers and a slight glow in the highlights from the lens I was using.

Now I have a preset for that.  It works for 90% of my images, with the rest needing a bit of tweaking here/there to get it right.

Have a great Wednesday.

Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Friday!

Every week I compile a nice list of the goings-on, as it were, in the Lightroom world.  Blog posts, tips, tricks and even video tutorials and freebies adorn these pages.  So gear up, get ready for some book (or at least screen) learnin’ and lets have at it.

Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Friday!

Every week I compile a nice list of the goings-on, as it were, in the Lightroom world.  Blog posts, tips, tricks and even video tutorials and freebies adorn these pages.  So gear up, get ready for some book (or at least screen) learnin’ and lets have at it.

• Laura Shoe regails us with tales of photos not in your catalog (and how to find them).
• Rob Sylvan at Lightroomers.com has more Beta 4 resources than you can shake a stick at.  Well, almost.
• LightroomKillerTips.com talks Dynamic Watermarking.
• X-Equals looks at their plans for Lightroom 4.
• A few burning LR4 questions answered by Adobe.
• PresetsHeaven.com has a new prest for LR4.
• LightroomPresets.com has some pretty presets and lots of other resources for you Lightroom Jockeys.
• LightroomSecrets.com looks at the email options in Lightroom 4

Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Friday!

Every week I compile a nice list of the goings-on, as it were, in the Lightroom world.  Blog posts, tips, tricks and even video tutorials and freebies adorn these pages.  So gear up, get ready for some book (or at least screen) learnin’ and lets have at it.

• John Beardsworth talks about a new version of his Advanced Digital Black & White Photo book – now with lots of Lightroom content.
• Laura Shoe holds her last Lightroom Beta 4 Webinar.  Watch a recorded version of her January 11th presentation.
• Here is a look at the softproofing feature in Lightroom 4.
• A comment on lack of Windows XP support in Lightroom 4.  More here from Tom Hogarty.
• Sean McCormack at pixiq.com offers up some free presets.  And here is a video tutorial on using Sync for Video in LR 4.
• The Lightroom Queen talks about getting used to the PV2012 Develop Sliders.
• LightroomKillerTips.com looks at using external drives with Lightroom.
• Larua Shoe’s Video Tip fo the week: Spot Removal Tool
• LightroomSecrets.com looks at catalogs in the cloud.
• LightroomKillerTips.com looks at Cloning and Healing Photoshop Style.
• Jeffrey Friedl has a few comments for Lightroom Plugin developers.
• Some Q&A around Lightroom 4
• A few plugin updates for Lightroom 4
• Aiming for the most posts this week, Sean McCormack looks at an ingenious approach to video in LR 4
• An HDR look preset from LightroomKillerTips.com
• How to install presets.

Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Wednesday!

Every week I compile a nice list of the goings-on, as it were, in the Lightroom world.  Blog posts, tips, tricks and even video tutorials and freebies adorn these pages.  So gear up, get ready for some book (or at least screen) learnin’ and lets have at it.

Ok, lets get the big news out of the way:

• Adobe releases the Lightroom 4 Beta on labs
• Quick overview from the LightroomBlog.com
• LightroomSecrets.com does likewise

I know, exciting right?  So before you run off and dedicate your life to it, remember that it is beta. For me, I can’t even get the non-develop modules to load.  I just get a “error switching modules” alert and a blank screen.  So sad me.

I did get to use the Develop module and find the simplicity in the new basic slider levels a HUGE improvement – less bouncing around.  This is much easier to teach than the previous method (What is the difference between blacks and contrast?  What is the difference between exposure and brightness).

Soft Proofing is nice for those who still print at home (I moved to a pro lab years ago and am not looking back), but it was something I advocated for big time back in the LR 2 days.  I still have an old Epson R2400 sitting over there that hasn’t even been turned on in 4 years.  Wonder if the print heads are clogged?

Books? Awesome. I wish I could play with it.  I remember when this was a feature in Kevin’s eye in the 2 timeframe.  Oh I wanted it then, and books have only become more important. This was the one big advantage Aperture had (even if their printer sucked).

The Map feature?  I can’t for the life of me figure this one out. I mean, a whole module just to see where my pictures were taken?  I can’t see a lot of pros caring about this, frankly.

Email? Who emails photos anymore?  I guess some do – but when you mail them to me I curse and wonder why you don’t host them online and save me the download bandwidth.  Shrug.

As expected, they bumped SmugMug’s plugin.  I knew this was coming, but now I gotta figure out in the holy mess that is exchange where the new one is.  Of course, this helps SmugMug rev the plugin easier.  Being tied to a box software release cycle can suck.

I don’t do much video, but I’m looking forward to how the improvement works with movie files.  I think video has mostly stood the test of “is this a core feature for photographers” and deserves a spot in my library.

Small but important changes:

1. Presets in Import (and Quick Develop) are now hierarchical.  HUGE!  Still need more thinking around preset management here (I had some great ideas years ago).
2. Flags are global.  Thank goodness.
3. DNG improvements.  I use DNG for everything. Faster is better.  Hope it actually *is* faster.
4. Print adjustments are cool for those who still print.  Maybe we’ll have a renaissance of home printing with tools that finally support it.
5. Lossy DNG?  Hmm.  Maybe for family shots and non-work stuff.  Save lots of space on that RAID array.

Here is a nice rundown from some other awesome people:

• Lightroom Queen’s extensive and well formulated run down of LR4 Beta.
• The Lightroom Team has a nice list of resources I see no need to duplicate…
• Sean McCormack at Pixiq.com has a big old list too…
• NAPP’s Beta Launch Center

Here are some tutorials:

• Laura Shoe looks at the new Develop Module
• Julianne Kost does her usual, thorough look at the important new features…
• TheLightroomLab.com has a nice rundown on using the Book module to make a PDF portfolio
• Laura Shoe has a webinar or two worth watching…
• LightroomKillerTips.com day after Q&A

Here are a few from today’s session…

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Huzzah!  Its Lightroom Wednesday!

Been a few weeks since my last post – it was a great holiday break, and I’m glad to be back.  So lets get at it…

• The latest Lightroom/ACR combo is out.
• LightroomKillerTips.com has some great Calendar presets.  And here…
• Its 2012!  Change your Metadata.  More reasons to do so.
• Backup!  Its good for you.
• A review of Laura Shoe’s Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond DVD/Download from X-Equals.
• Working on multiple photos at once.  The bliss and danger of auto-sync.
• Working with Vignettes.
• Lomo preset for Lightroom.
• White Balance – a guide for Noobs.
• X-Equals has some great ebooks for cheap.
• Fashion Tonality in Lightroom
• Quicker Collections from the TipSquirrel
• The Bell Sisters have some Black & White Presets!  Pay a bit, but you might like like what you see.
• A free Black & White preset from X-Equals.
• PresetsHeaven’s top 5 most downloaded presets.
• Switching from Aperture to Lightroom.
• Julianne Kost looks at the Metadata Panel.