Here are a few Lightroom resources I've run into over the past few days;

• L7Foto has a short video tutorial that talks the basic Pick/Reject/Rating editing task. This is something that every photographer needs to hone - and it takes years.
• Bridge/ACR/Photoshop or Lightroom? Scott Kelby covers this in his blog post on The Photoshop Insider. I worked on Bridge/ACR and then moved to the Lightroom team a year ago. There was a reason why I jumped ship - Lightroom is a much more focused, organized, efficient tool for 90% of the raw processing task. Period.
• Peachpit Press has revamped their Lightroom Resource Center. You can even get access to Martin Evening's LR 2 book before it is printed.
• Matt Kloskowski has revealed some of his deepest, darkets confessions in "Confessions of a Lightroom Addict"

Tags:Lightroom, Adobe, Photoshop

Here is a humorous photo of a coworker and friend of mine supplicating before the oracle of print . Sometimes you gotta appeal to vanity to get something done. And it generally works. Suckas.

Just another day in the development of Lightroom...

Ok, so it was just a setup - a joke if you will - playing on the funny relationship designers and their engineering counterparts go thru daily to bring you good (and sometimes not so good) software.

Moving on to the question of DNG.

I get asked that a lot by photographers wondering why they should convert their proprietary raw files to Adobe's DNG standard. The answer is fairly easy: its free, its open and its archival. I convert all pictures (well at least the ones not coming native DNG from my M8) to DNG as part of the import process in Lightroom. It takes a bit of extra time, but it ensures your pictures will be readable in the future, which is the reason many important workflow gurus suggest likewise. On the Adobe Creative Suite podcast this week, Terry White covers this "To DNG or not to DNG" question...

So, in short, convert to DNG and be happy. Its self-contained, its archival and it saves you space, and if you are smart and do it as you import images, the process is automatic.

Tags:Lightroom, Adobe

Wow, didn't know this was in the offing, but it looks like Adobe is offering the full version of Photoshop CS3 for $299 for any Elements owners (apparently its for any version of Elements too).

Found on the Photography Bay blog.

Must be taken care of thru the Adobe store. The offer expires 2/29/08. Pretty good deal if you need Photoshop CS3 (a great upgrade to an already great program).

And yes, you need Lightroom as well. It makes you faster, smarter and more organized.

Tags:Adobe