Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain, so lets have at it...

• What is Lightroom all about?
• Comparing the HD footprint of Aperture v. Lightroom. Not that it matters, but interesting to see...
• ImageArchiver 1.0 for Lightroom is released.
• Matt K has a nice before/after video to show how he works...
• More comparison with Aperture...
• New presets from X-Equals - Cold Storage Film Presets
• Nerdy McMetadata warning: Plus plugin from Timothy Armes updated
• Arrange your files your way in Lightroom from DPS
• Red Eye - bane of the flash-challenged everywhere. Maybe you’re challenged?
• Laura Shoe talks about some new Lightroom workshops in Austin & Minneapolis, and also, how to rename images, and a look at Aperture
• LightroomKillerTips.com has some good “worth a click” stuff
• X-Equals reviews the onOne Plugin-Suite 5

That is all for this week. Im prepping for WPPI next week. If you’re going to Vegas, please stop by the SmugMug booth and say hi.

My daughter is off to San Diego this AM for her second Youth America Grand Prix.

As far as competitions go, this is the big one. This is the yearly event that even those not into competitions (read: us) will attend as a way to add some fire to training/growth.

Chloe performed admirably last year and scored in the top 10 for her age group, and we were pretty excited about that as it was her first ever competition.

This year she’s worked much harder. This year, despite only starting pointe six months ago, her routine is all on pointe and it has pushed her quite dramatically. She’s really developed, and is nailing some very difficult moves.

Here she is Monday at a dress rehearsal at the EBT studio.

Good luck Chloe! You’ve worked hard. Now show it.

P.S. the poor thing came down with the stomach flu Wednesday. She feels much better, but we’re hoping for the best.

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah! Sorry for the lateness, but I’ve been flat on my back sick all day, and am just getting over what was a nasty 24 hour bug.

Anyhow, each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain, so lets have at it...

• A neat new HDR plugin for Lightroom.
• Off-center Vignetting? There is an app for that. Er, I mean, technique.
• A review of the Totally Rad Lightroom Effects preset set.
• Aperture 3 - Time to Switch? Uh, no.
• Matt K has some more reasons why Lightroom remains a better product.
• Organizing your photos in Lightroom. Adobe TV’s Julianne Kost.
• Lightroom or Photoshop? Or both? Personally, Lightroom for 90% and Photoshop for the rest. Lightroom is much more efficient.
• X-Equals takes a stab at fixing Chromatic Abberation.
• Rob Sylvan has some Grid View Tips.
• A new preset from Lightroom Killer Tips...
• LIghtroom vs. Bridge. You need to ask? Having worked on both, I never use Bridge anymore. Lightroom is just much better.
• An interesting look at new camera support between Lightroom and Aperture.
• More from Lightroom Killer tips: Quick panel tip, A look at the Recovery slider (Matt is on a roll this week)
• Preset Heaven offers some new presets (its been awhile)...

Well, that is about it. I’m ready to get back in bed...

Once upon a time, I was a hard-core street photographer. Plying my trade documenting the live and trappings of public life.

I don’t do this as much as I used to, mostly because my interests have moved on. But every once in a while, I get the urge. Here are a few from my last few days in Mexico.

Tags:Family

Well, its been raining off and on here in Mexico for the last two days. Not terribly problematic, but being from Seattle and all, we were looking forward to more sun than rain this week.

But you get what you get. Here are a few random shots from the last few days...

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah! Direct from Mexico to you wherever you are.

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain.

• Sean McCormack walks you thru how to fix a weak catchlight
• One photographers walk-thru of how he uses the Adjustment Brushes in Lightroom 2. Sometimes its informative to see how someone else does something, even if you already think you get something.
• One photographer looks at the color differences in Lightroom vs. Aperture 3
• A reminder to back up. Everything.
• Laura Shoe looks at LRB Exhibition - a new “all-in-one” website creator for your photography.
• Matt K tells us when its time to start from scratch...
• Lightroom Secrets has a spotlight on Adobe’s Anita Dennis
• Timothy Armes has updated his Elegance web engine...
• The gloves are off - a look at Aperture and Lightroom...
• LightroomKillerTips tells you why you might wanna stick with Lightroom.
• Zack Arias looks at his worlkflow...
• How to export several versions of a file at once...
• X-Equals + LIDF - Creative Production Presets, and they also have a nice look at keeping all those presets organized

That is it. Greetings from the sunny beach from where I sit typing this out.

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Greetings from Sayulita, Mexico.

The whole SmugGang headed south for our yearly retreat. And by gang I mean fifty some odd people, families and spouses included,installed in a variety of fun beach houses for a week of fun and work.

Today we’re sitting by the pool, listening to the surf pound the beach and just having a ball.

Here are a few pictures from this morning...

Tags:Lightroom

Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain.

• Lightroom 2 for the cheapskate. Today only, I would expect
• Watch a video on developing from the Digital Daily Dose. Its always interesting to see how other photographers work...
• Photofocus looks at how to customize your Camera Raw defaults in Lightroom.
• Digital Photography School looks at how to create HDR-like images from a single Raw file. Its like creating tacky without all that extra work. I kid, I kid.
• In the fine tradition of “make it pop” presets, photographer Amy McMaster offers her preset take here...
• Kirsten Cox offers up a sepia style preset for your perusal.
• Matt K offers up this week’s Lightroom Q&A session.
• Nigel Honey looks at color profiling iwth the X-Rite Colour Checker Passport.
• Expose to the right! If you don’t, use this.
• Four signs its time to start from scratch in Lightroom. Matt K looks into those times when you just overdid it.
• Sean McCormack has updated a few of his Web Gallery options.
• The Turning Gate also has some interesting Web Galleries for your perusal.
• Tip - Exporting Photos with Last Settings
• A new contributor at Lightroomsecrets.com shares a few reasons why he uses lightroom.
• X-Equals on preset management.

PS. Aperture 3 was released. I’m working on a post to cover what is new. Stay tuned...

Tags:Family

My wife blames me for the crazy behavior of this child, in response I have oft hinted that she was on something during the pregnancy.

This is what I walked into yesterday afternoon in our front room. I have no idea what he was doing, but he was doing some kung-fu stuff with his shirt in the Cornholio position and had decorated his torso with kid-toos.

Shrug. Welcome to my world.

Psst. She’s right.

Tags:Lightroom

Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain.

• InsideLightroom looks at the state of Lightroom plugins.
• Digital Photo Experience looks at searching with the Library Filters.
• A speed tip from Foto-Biz. This one is new to me.
• Terry White has a tip for using Smart Collections to remove crap from your Lightroom Library.
• A spot removal tip from Outdoor Photo Gear.
• Sherri Meyer has posted her top 10 LR tweets of the week. Saves me some typing...
• An interesting look at the difference between Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets.
• Eric Cheng looks at the difference between Raw and sRaw conversions.
• Foto-Biz takes a look at LR previews.
• LightroomKillerTips has new preset for your perusal.
• Sean McCormack at Lightroomblog.com has some info about a new LR web gallery that he’s about to release into the wild. I’ve got a prerelease copy to have a look at after I was asked about this on my Lightroom Questions forum.
• Speaking of which, I answered several new questions at my Lightroom Q&A forum this week.
• Lightroomsecrets.com has a new contributor.
• I love collections. Use them daily. Laura Shoe looks at how to save time with them.
• Applying Presets - how to apply them to multiple photos at once.
• Color Calibration. Its hard. Here is a look at the difference between monitors and printers.
• Lightroom 2.6.1 available - has fixes mostly for Leica M9 shooters.
• X-Equals looks at the processing of editing one’s photos.
• A Holga preset from X-Equals. Don’t forget to sign up for the X-Equals digest, a weekly digest of cool Lightroom stuff.

That is it for today. Have a great Tuesday.