Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


That is it. I’m heading down to Goblin Valley State Park today to spend a day with Scott Jarvie and a few of his students doing some flashy things. Stay tuned for some awesomeness.

PS. When not backpacking, here is how I roll (taken up a canyon somewhere near Paris, Idaho).




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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


Thats it for this week. Have a great Tuesday!
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


Thats it for today. The sun is shining, the world cup is beckoning and I got work to do.

So have a great Tuesday. Keep pressing that shutter, it’ll come unstuck.
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah. Turn off the World Cup and lets get our Lightroom on.

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


Thats it for this week. Cheers!
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The Mother of all Lightroom Tuesdays!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday! In fact, it is one of the most important LR2sdays since I started all this.

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


If you’re upgrading and are a member of a professional organization, don’t forget you might get a discount (ASMP etc). Adobe also has some promos out there...



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Lightroom 3 Beta 2 in Production


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So this weekend I shot a performance of Coppelia in Portland for a young dancer. You can see some of the shots from that performance over the past few days on the blog.

After pretty much ignoring LR3 beta X since its launch last fall, I decided it was time to put it thru its paces. Mainly I was looking to see how the updated noise reduction features were going to work - I tend to work in such situations at 640 to 3200 ISO and at the higher end I like to take the edge off a bit.

Let me preface this quickly: Lightroom 3 is in beta still. Beta as in not-final. As in, it still has bugs. This is why I’ve ignored it for production work since it came out. But I’ve talked to a lot of other photogs who are using it daily for production, so I decided to forgo my usual reticence and give it a workout.

So lets see...

So I imported the files and converted to DNG. The shoot was about 2400 images, and I pulled them off the cards using Photo Mechanic because it will work with multiple CF card readers. Come to think of it, I didn’t even give LR3 a try as I’ve become so accustomed to doing it this way with LR2.

I really hate the extra steps that this takes, but it beats doing each card serially. This way I can then import, convert to DNG and build 1:1 previews in one fell swoop - i.e. like when I’m asleep as I did here. I’m still getting used to the new import dialog, but I like how it helps you visualize where things are going (but I’m biased as I worked on the early versions of this).

I came back in the morning and found all the pictures where they should be, ready to roll.

I then applied a preset in Library to turn them all to Black & White (using my fave b/w preset) and started to work.

My B/W preset usually gets me close, so after a bit of tweaking contrast/brightness/exposure, I generally dive into cropping and then the spot tool. Both tools seemed a bitt laggy and slower than their LR2 brethren. I certainly stared at that beach ball a lot more - both to get the tool ready to roll and in between placing spots. When you have 20 or 40 pieces of dirt on the dancer’s marley, you want speed to get them all taken care of. This was (and always is) the most time consuming part of shooting dance photos. Note to self, this is a beta. And to be honest, I’ve never found it to fast for my liking. Beta. Beta. Beta.

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Also, when working on a plethora of spots, you often keep running into other spots or their clone source. This requires workarounds - create a spot elsewhere and drag it to where you want it. Then reposition the source. That takes alot of time. I wish there was an “ignore” the other spots keyboard shortcut or something to speed this frustrating part of my workflow up. But hey, I’m dealing with detritus on a black floor...

I then used the adjustment brushes to dodge and burn areas as appropriate. It seemed to work about as I was used to, with the exception that they took away the (-) and (+) button sets for shortcutting your selection. I missed them, and may continue to do so. I’ve never really wanted to adjust all those sliders at once, so a quick plus or minus for exposure or clarity was a bit faster. I may get accustomed to it, but I miss it.

Spot tool gripe b: Q. For years you used N to get to the spot tool. Now you have to use Q (as in Quit beachballing I guess - sorry Jon) and it took quite a bit of time to retrain myself. I suppose it will be easy to get used to, and I do like the consistency this now brings to Library/Dev modules. Shrug long term, pain short term.

Exporting to SmugMug went pretty good - it even seemed that the SmugMug plugin from Friedl was less buggy than the one in LR2 but that might be just me thinking to much. (PS. It is. Jefferey emailed me to ask about it and told me its the same plugin). I also might be blaming him when network issues are to blame...

The noise reduction is much nicer.

The new Post-Crop Vignetting tool gives me better results than LR2. Nice.

I was very happy to see my presets and export stuff where it should be. Pretty painless transition.

It felt like Library/Develop transitions and preview generation was a bit faster. Hooray for that. Overall, its a nice upgrade from LR2 (better than PS CS5 which has been a bit ho-hum for me).

And better yet, guess how many photos went to Photoshop for further work? None. Zilch. Not a one. This is good, because a trip to the big blue box translates to at least 5-10 minutes, 200 MB on disk and extra file management duties. Not one. Awesome.

Can’t wait for the final release. I expect that the final code will show some significant trimming on those laggy episodes I was having.

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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


Looks to be a slow week, so that is what we got. Have a great Tuesday!

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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


Thats it for this week. Have a great Tuesday!
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


That is it for today. Have a great Tuesday...
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Lightroom Tuesday!

A few things I’d missed in today’s previous post.

  • Lens distortions and abberations got you down? Spend a measily $15 and get PTLens, a good tool that can be run as a Lightroom Editor (and it streamlines the workflow some from a standalone app). I’ve tried it, and it works well. Not as well as a correction module, but that isn’t yet on the radar. Until then, working on a rendered tiff is what you get - and its worht noting that this is Aperture’s solution to everything and it kinda sucks compared to being able to do this fancy stuff on Raw images. See LR 2.0’s Local Corrections for example. Zing! (Via the Lightroom Blog)
  • A reader, Mike Solomon, pointed me to a tutorial and a couple of Lightroom presets on his blog. He says they give photos the “it” that sometimes is needed for advertising photographs. Worth a read.
  • Like to put your stuff on the web from Lightroom? Check out all the galleries on Lightroomgalleries.com
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


Thats it for this week. Have a great Tuesday!
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


Looks like a light week with everyone looking into Photoshop CS5. Have a great Tuesday.
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


Not Lightroom-related, but worth looking into:

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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

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


That is it for this week. Cheers!
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain. And this week is quite an interesting one, so lets get rolling...



Less Lightroom related, but interesting...


That is everything so far this morning. Have a great Tuesday!
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its another Lightroom Tuesday!

Each week I gather the best of the Lightroom-o-sphere into one place for your edification, perusal and gain. And this week is quite an interesting one, so lets get rolling...

First off, lets do the Lightroom 3 beta 2 round up:


For those not moving to the beta 2 yet (and I’m one of them - its beta for a reason)

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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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

But hey, look at me yapping my mouth. Lets have at it...


Well folks, that is it for this week...
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Lightroom Tuesday

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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...


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.
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Belated Lightroom Tuesday!

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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...


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

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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.


That is it. Greetings from the sunny beach from where I sit typing this out. Winking
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Aperture 3 Released

Well, Apple finally released Aperture 3!

Surprise!

I love how secretive Apple is with their stuff. Mums the word. When things look good and dead, and most people have moved on, they suddenly pull this “Ta-da” routine and expect us to get excited.

But hey, I’m no marketing genius. Maybe it will work. I much prefer the openness from Adobe, to be honest. Open betas, open discussions and true community involvement.

But that is neither here nor there. The release is now out and it has some interesting things. And competition is a good thing, to be sure, so this will certainly serve as a nice exclamation point to the Lightroom team meetings. I’ve sat thru these meetings twice before (on this very subject) and it is a good thing for photographers.

Here are some quick impressions, with more to come later..

  • Brushes - Welcome to the party (PS. Adobe skip the full page Welcome ad in the WSJ). I remember some of us sitting around making fun of their half-arsed effort in Aperture 2. This one is finally non-destructive, and I quickly noted that they appropriated quite a bit from our designs in Lightroom 2. Like a lot. They do have Quick brushes, which was something I really pushed for in 2 (I wanted brushes for specific tasks like "Dodge, Burn, Skin Soften, etc.) but it didn’t happen.
  • Presets - Its been how many years?
  • Faces/Places - I’m not sure how the market will receive these, but they are obviously building on what they have in iPhoto. That is great for a segment of the population that shoots a few pictures at family functions or on trips, but I'm just not sure how useful these will be to working pros.  Personally I spend too much time working on the photos to even properly keyword them all the time, let alone tag them for faces or worry about GPS coordinates.  But when you shoot as much as I do, I might be a bell curve edger. I reserve the right to be wrong, and do applaud them for looking for areas to help make photo management easier.
  • Import - Lightroom did a good job providing them a template here as well.
  • Color Labels -   Whahoo! Amazing. Kidding. They do sync with the Finder though, which is nice if you want to forgo the *management* part of Aperture and dig in the OS.
  • LIbrary Merge - Just a simplified drag/drop merging of libraries.  Slightly better than we did with catalog import export but not much.
  • LCD Panel - A minor thing, but it caught my eye. A camera-like display of metadata in a nice small area. Why did it catch my eye? Because I designed and patented this display for Bridge 2 several years ago and they’ve largely copied it. FWIW, I tried to get it in Lightroom/ACR but didn’t succeed.
  • Focus - A small thing, but cool. One can see the focus points right on your image like you do on the back of your camera - kinda useful to see where you screwed up and focused on the wrong thing. Frankly, I wish Lightroom did this.
  • Video Support - Very interesting.  Broadens aperture's asset management approach to include what photogs in the past year or two have dealt with. This will be controversial move, but might just work for them.  When looking at this years ago, I initially wanted LR to stay focused on photogs, trying to avoid another product (guess which one) that expanded rapidly to encompass a bunch of user groups and left photographers wondering what happened to “Photo” in the shop. Honestly, I’m not sure where I'd come down on this argument today, but I at least appreciate LR3 not ignoring the .move files.  Apple allows for management, playback, and basic trimming with external editors for anything else
  • Advanced Slideshows - Lots of control here. Very nice. I prefer solutions like SmugMug because these can get big. And I can sell from SmugMug.
  • Books - This is huge. Pros can get high quality albums, including the big brands - Queensbury, Couture, Leather Craftsman.  Wedding photogs will eat this up.
  • Printing - Looks largely like what we did in 2.0 and is being finished in the forthcoming Lightroom 3
  • Speed - 64 bit.  Like Lightroom 2 from a few years ago. Wonder if it will make a difference.

I have yet to really look at the release or put it thru its paces. Time will tell if some of the new views/modes for browsing images will be useful.


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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


That is it for today. Have a great Tuesday.
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


That is it for this week. Have a great Tuesday.


PS. Did you miss my tweet yesterday about the Amazon deal on Lightroom 2? If you were following me on twitter this woulda never happened.
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Its Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

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


Not Lightroom related, but interesting...

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Lightroom Q&A

For the New Year, I’m happy to debut a new feature at heninger.org that lets you, my cherished readers, easily ask me a question about Lightroom.

In a fit of creative genius I’m calling it “Lightroom Q&A” and I’ve added it to the Navigation bar above.

So, feel free to ask me a question and I’ll answer it as soon as I have time.

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Note: Please consider not posting anonymously so I know who I’m talking with - right now I’ve allowed anonymous posters and am hoping that the spammers stay away.

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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Welcome to the first Lightroom Tuesday of the New Year. Yes, its 2010 already and hopefully you’ve all recovered from your holiday excesses.

So lets see what is going on in the Lightroom world this past week...


Not Lightroom related, but worth a look:


Well, that is it for this week meus queridos. Have a great Tuesday.
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Lightroom Tuesday!

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Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. And the last one before Christmas. W00t!

This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, mes amis.


Not Lightroom related, but cool...


Well, that is it for this week - kind of a slow week in the Lightroom world as everyone rushes around looking for that missing gift. Speaking of which, now that I’ve dug out of all those Nutcracker pictures, its time to do some shopping (I kid, I kid).

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday or whatever else you wanna have this week!
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Lightroom 3 Beta - The Missing Manual

I was recently contacted by Victoria Bampton to review her ∑

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    I’ve read and reviewed several of the Lightroom books out there, and for the most part, find something to like in all of them. This one is no exception. Victoria has taken a slightly different approach to her ebook, and I find this helps her offering stand out in a crowded field.

    First, it is primarily an ebook in PDF format (although I hear it comes or will come in paperback form as well).

    Ebooks are a good thing in my, ahem, book. All I need are more books crowding an already straining series of bookshelves. I’m not kidding. I recently bought a Kindle and love the ability to carry 55 books and magazines/newspapers with me always. And it helps keep the bookshelf thing in check. So the fact that her book comes in an easy to manage PDF is a godsend for me. Searching is faster too.

    Second off, its written in a very different format, giving the reader a simple, straightforward FAQ style approach to answering questions. FAQ have existed for years, and were always focused on brevity in answering the very specific salient questions people have about a piece of software. Therefore, one should consider it a reference book that you go to when you have a problem - its less for perusing than some other books.

    Yes, there are the obligatory intro comments for each section (a catalog is...) but they seem complete and concise for the task at hand. Now I’m no Lightroom slouch, so not much in the book was news to me, but it represents a nice compendium of questions that Victoria has run into over the last several years in various online forums dedicated to such things. Real world data in, useful information out. And in my scanning, I saw all the big questions I get asked covered.

    The book (I reviewed the LR 3 Beta, but there is one for LR2 as well) is around 400-450 pages depending on which version you get and is logically organized by module. This is pretty common for all Lightroom books, and it helps you to narrow down your search quickly. Its designed to be a handy reference that you quickly grab and read for a problem that is dogging you.

    Sections include the obligatory getting started section, which covers database and catalog issues, the import and library organization aspects and then the develop module, where much of the heavy lifting is done. The question/answer format works well for Victoria, and I find that she’s very good at getting right to the point and not overwhelming you with words. She uses just enough words to get her point across, and generally has a screen shot to visually point you in the right direction. Very nice. See the TOC here...

    Here is an example of the question/answer format and the use of appropriate graphics:

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    Lots of white space, graphical additions and “just the facts, ma’am” approach works well.

    For some, her focus on just the basics might not give all that they need, but I found it to be more than adequate for someone with a basic knowledge of working with Raw images.

    I noticed that she also includes some extra chapters to cover ACR compatibility (Yes we sometimes need to go to Photoshop or even, heaven forbid, Bridge) and caps it off with some General Troubleshooting and other useful information.

    Overall it looks like a solid and useful addition to the Lightroom library (or my Kindle as in my case). I’d recommend it for anyone who likes the conciseness and salience of a FAQ.

    As to cost, it comes in around $25 US. Don’t let that squiggly L thing fool you - that just represents a depreciation in your home currency if you’re on this side of the pond.

    Cheers!




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    Lightroom Tuesday!

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    Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

    This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, mes amis.


    Well, thats it for this week. Have a great Tuesday.
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    Lightroom Tuesday!

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    Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

    This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.

    Not Lightroom related, but worth a look...

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    Lightroom Tuesday!

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    Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

    This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


    Not Lightroom related, but interesting/cool/necessary:

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    Lightroom Tuesday!

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    Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

    This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      A few things worth looking at:


      Thats it (so far today) - have a good one.


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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.

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      As you can see, its mostly LR3 Beta stuff. I’ve seen a few issues with the new app - mostly around importing files from a card with other files included in the mix (read movie files). So be careful. This is beta software.

      Have a great Tuesday.

      PS. Most of the PPE pictures shot in NY this week were run thru the beta, problems not withstanding.

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      Lightroom Import

      The new Lighroom Beta 3 import dialog has a few improvements over the last.

      The concept is something that I worked up a year or two ago for Lightroom 2 - the jist was that users were confused about the import process and to lay it out visually would improve the "big bump" in the learning curve for the product.

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      The big bump is the issue of people not groking where thier photos are being saved to. I've seen people save their imports to all manner of weird locations, and then get mad because they don't know where things are. I've seen people claim Lightroom is obfuscating stuff. I've even seen people claim LR imported stuff right to the trash and they've been the victim of a poorly designed product. I kid you not.

      So the idea was to provide a nice overlay that would show point A (the CF card for exapmle), the process (copy, move, convert to DNG) and point B (the save location - i.e. my Drobo). This new dialog does this quite well - its much more explicit about where things are going if you are cognizant about things.

      I'm iffy on the the tree explorer on the left - it just seems a bit overwhelming compared to the "choose" dialog we just had, but it does help visualize the where from a local drive. Jury out.

      I do like that they do a better job of visualizing what won't be imported (a nice vignette gray out effect) on stuff that won't come over. And the coolest thing I've found so far is that LR will now move your .mov files from your video-enhanced camera, which rocks. One had to be very on top of moving video files because LR 2 just ignores them and you'd have to manually grab them yourself. That meant reinserting the card if it had been ejected and canceling the import dialog again in LR before digging them out of the CF card. Many a movie has probably been deleted when the photog forgot.

      One minor nit: the "No preview available" tag for videos is hopefully a beta-isim - it needs a keyframe image of the video and some graphics to make sure people realize its a video.

      I have not had time to see if the backup feature is the same, or if the've improved on it to mirror your choices for the primary import.

      Finally, I'm also kinda confused why it has my local hard drive and my user directory listed out as peers in the destination tab when they're not. I'm assuming its for convieniece but it could be confusing.

      The import presets feature? Not sure yet. Might be really useful, might never get used. Time will tell on this one.

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      PhotoPlus East Day 2 was just like day one. Our booth was mobbed. We gave out all our SmugMugPro bags and had to turn away quite a few dissapointed people. What I like about working in the SmugBooth is that one in 15 people are already customers who come to us and just say how happy they are to be our customers. Very few have complaints or requests - most just want to say Hi and that they love us. Its weird after fielding odd Acrobat complaints for years in the Adobe booth. And funnier yet, if someone asks what SmugMug is while our happy customer is there, they'll usually just jump in with praise and encouragment. I just have to stand their and smile.

      Didn't get a chance to look around much yesterday. And our biggest diversion of the day was to get a 10 minute massage before heading back to the booth.

      That was sure nice.




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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look...

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      Not LR related, but cool...


      Thats it folks. Have a great Tuesday!
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      That is it. Sorry about the late post, its been a busy day...
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. W00t!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.

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      Lightroom Memorabilia Giveaway

      My wife kept frowning at me.

      I knew exactly what it was for. But I manage to stall for a few weeks.

      It was the closet. The master one. Specifically my side.

      I’m a bit of a pack rat. Nothing neurotic or anything, there are no piles of newspapers stacked to the ceiling or empty rolls of paper towels. No, I just have stuff that needs putting somewhere.

      I’m an outdoor fanatic, so I have a variety of sleeping bags. 20 degree, 30 degree, 40 degree. And a few of each. I camp in different seasons, and one needs a bit of variety. Plus I have kids, so they get used. But they also need a place to rest when not on some adventure at the bottom of my pack.

      I also have lots of shirts. Short sleeve t-shirts when I’m displaying my awesome coolness. Short sleeve t-shirts when I’m biking or hiking. Short sleeve t-shirts when I’m digging in the back yard. And the worst? Company t-shirts. I’ve got Apple t’s, Adobe t’s and now SmugMug t’s littering the closet. There is even a few band t-shirts from when I was much more punk rock than most of you. Misfits, Exploited and The Dead Kennedys. Yup. I suppose I can lump those in with the awesome coolness part above, but I’m trying to make a point...

      So the closet gets full. And it was. You know when you gotta jump over sleeping bags and the like that time is limited...

      So I cleaned it out tonight. And that meant more than just putting stuff back where it goes. It meant getting rid of stuff. Those dress shirts I don’t wear much anymore. A few pairs of pants and shorts that are just too worn out to matter. Those shoes that just sit there. You get the point.

      So why am I telling you this? Well, because I have a few Lightroom shirts that I never wear, so I figured I’d give them away to my voracious readers who love all things Lightroom.

      I have the shipping shirt for Lightroom 1 and Lightroom 2.

      Stay tuned for tomorrow when I give away the first...
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. Huzzah!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.

      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look


      Ok, that is it for this week. I gotta go dig myself from under a Snow Leopard mess...

      Have a great Tuesday.
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. Huzzah!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. Huzzah!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look

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      Lightroom Books

      Nathaniel Coalson recently contacted me and asked if I’d review his Lightroom 2 book, entitled Adobe Photoshop LIghtroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process. I agreed, and it arrived a few days later in the mail.

      Then I took my sweet time to review it. Between this crazy summer’s escapades and a nasty spider bite, I’ve been a busy, distracted man this summer.

      book


      As an aside, being an erstwhile a member of the Lightroom team, I’m used to getting copies of the latest Lightroom books from the well-known Industrial Adobe Learning Complex (IALC) authors. For the past few years, I’ve recommended Seth Resnick’s book as it is a great extension of his wonderful multi-day seminar that I’ve been privileged to sit in on over the past few years. I also have books from Scott Kelby and Martin Evening kicking around. Or had them - I generally end up giving them out as gifts to family members who like to have a reference guide close by.

      Nathaniel’s book fills an interesting niche - his book is for the kind of photographer (like me) that likes to understand the basic technical side, but does not want to get overly obsessive about the technology. The latter being typified by those annoying camera cluby people who never take actual pictures but know everything about a Bayer filters and micro-lenses. And will tell you about it repeatedly. They can rot your insides if you let them. But I digress...

      What is a digital workflow you ask? A workflow is the methodological process one uses to approach working with digital imagery. And I say methodological because its like mowing the grass when you’re 12 - a plan makes it easier and look better when you’re done. Workflow certainly isn’t new. Ansel was teaching that decades ago. It just got a bit more complex when someone let the computer nerds in the door.

      Anyhow, all the basic workflow topics are covered, including Capture, Import, Organize, Process, Export and Present. Just as you’d expect.

      But hold on. Before we get all hot and heavy into keywording and granular slider adjustments, Nat gives you a short look at the fundamental theories of digital imaging (sensor capture, color management, raw file composition) before getting into what my friend Nacho would call “the nitty gritty”. Very nice.

      With that, he then spends time on the various aspects of capturing imagery - this chapter is a great refresher on how to avoid frustration later on. In fact, I remember my “Intro to Darkroom” teacher once opine that “bad negatives make for work” and that axiom is just as true today. Read it a few times. You’ll learn something.

      Then we get a thorough job walking thru the Lightroom environment and introducing you to the neighbors. Not surprising, as most all books do this well.

      Following along, the Import and Organize chapters cover what is necessary to manage that stream of big CR2 or NEFs plopping on your hard drive, including folder/collection management and metadata/keyword tips that will make life easier down the road. Trust me, you won’t always remember that Client A’s shoot was on August 12th, 2009. Competent and thorough.

      What actually surprised me was a substantial chapter focused on reinforcing the need for a plan when processing images. It’s not that the idea of “having a plan” is surprising per se (we all get this talk early on in our photographic lives) but it was more that he tackled it so thoroughly. In fact, I tend to gloss over most of this in my Intro to Lightroom tutorials because its such a subjective thing (and I usually don’t have time in a 3-4 hour session to touch much on it). Apart from the capture variables you control at shutter press, the processing aspect is very personal and often becomes the “look” part that so many people talk about. Just as I’ve often stressed editing as an important skill (one that takes years to develop), processing is the next big challenge on the list. This chapter is a great intro to how to methodologically tackle this. Just insert yourself into the process to avoid being a preset weenie, and you’re on your way.

      The rest of the book is the mechanics of getting your work to fire people’s synapses in a good way. Exporting, slideshow, printing etc. He covers the important export plugins, basic color management and web presentation. It reminded me how little I print and make web galleries since joining SmugMug. I sure don’t miss that much. Its easier to dump them into an online gallery where commerce and printing are all setup ahead of time.

      He does make at least one recommendation I disagree with (i.e. don’t use Auto Save to make sure the files contain the latest metadata), but overall I found his methodical approach to a workflow useful and can easily see it helping others. Workflow is the process of settling on a methodological process for dealing with your output, and this book helps you think about what parts are most important to you and why.

      So where does this book fall in the canon of Lightroom literature? I see this as a great recommendation for photographers who want a bit more than the typical “Ten Down/Dirty tips to Lightroom Greatness” type books. It is a great way to get a walk-thru of the fundamentals as well as a great overview of a workflow for those looking to actually develop their photographic skill - be they amateurs, prosumers or professionals. It might be a bit detailed for the former, but the latter two groups can get much from this workflow-centric look at Lightroom.

      I see this as a cover-to-cover read. It will serve as an off the shelf reference as well (its well organized), but its best read in order to fully grasp the concepts behind a total workflow solution.

      So yes, I heartily recommend this book - especially to people who are looking to define their workflow in a responsible, holistic manner. It is slightly denser than some of the other Lightroom books I’ve looked at, but for the most part, I think he nails the balance between informative and overwhelming.

      Thanks Nat, for a great addition for the book learnin’ crowd.

      PS. I didn’t find my invaluable blog in the list of Lightroom references though. Such an oversight Winking

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday. Huzzah!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos.


      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look:


      Tomorrow I have a short article on LIghtroom books, a book review, and some recommendations for you book learnin’ types, so stay tuned.

      Have a great Tuesday!
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, mes amis.


      Not specifically LIghtroom-related, but worth a lookie...

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, mes amis.

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, mes amis.


      Not Lightroom related, but worth a look:


      Have a great Tuesday...
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      Lightroom Seminar Goodness

      I gave a raucous Lightroom seminar yesterday to a group of photographers in the Utah County area. What started out as a favor to a few of my sister’s photographer friends grew into a larger crowd of enthusiastic photogs, and I was glad to be of service. Infamous Utah photo-phenom Jarvie even showed up.

      We started a bit late (as usual) and didn’t split up until after 10 PM, with lots left to cover (as usual).

      I pretty much followed my outline detailed in my free ebook Adobe Lightroom 2: Workflow For Busy Photographers PDF. Setup, Ingest, Edit, Process and Export. You know, the basics.

      Lots of discussion about DNG, the coolness that is the Adjustment Brush and Backup strategies.

      Here is my Keynote Presentation if you’re interested, although frankly it does not give much beyond what the above mentioned PDF does.

      Cheers to all attendees. I hope you managed to get a few nuggets out of my extended yammering.
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday! Huzzah!

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my cherished readers.


      That is about it.

      Have a great Tuesday.

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      Utah Valley Lightroom Seminar

      I’ll be holding a free Lightroom seminar in Utah County tomorrow (July 21st) at 7 pm in Saratoga Springs, UT.

      This started out as a favor for my sister and a few friends and has grown as more people have asked to come. Bring it on, I say. We’ll have fun.

      The class will be hosted by Dustin Bess, so ping me for the address.

      The Course
      The course will focus on someone new to Lightroom - importing, editing and basic development/retouching. I’m sure we’ll get into some advanced topics and I’ll be around to answer harder questions. I’ll also spend some time on Lightroom integration with SmugMug. Finally, I’ll probably also get into a basic LR toolkit and describe a few third party tools for your I’m-so-Cool-Lightroom-Toolbox.

      Currently we have 15 spots filled, and could probably accommodate one or two more, so don’t be shy.
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my cherished readers.


      Well that should do it for today.

      Just an FYI, I’m on the road for the next few weeks. I’m in Utah now and will be spending some time in southern Colorado with my two boys exploring the back-roads and shooting pictures. Fun!

      Also, I’m going to be holding a free 2 hour Lightroom Seminar in the Lehi, Utah area Tuesday, July 21st. Location and time TBD, but if you are interested and are in the area, drop me an email and I’ll give you info when everything is finalized.
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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my cherished readers.


      Not Lightroom related, but interesting

      Well that is it for this week. Have a great Tuesday.
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      Lightroom Tuesday Addendum!

      Its still Tuesday night - 11:57 to be exact - and Adobe has just posted Lightroom 2.4 to their web servers.

      Go get it!

      http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4507
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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my cherished readers.

      • Jeff Friedl has released an interesting new plugin that purports to help manage video in Lightroom. Definitely have a read on his description page as there are some caveats. And yes, he does ask for an icon badge in a not-so veiled way from yours truly (although my design compatriot Phil is the true icon genius of our erstwhile team). Video in Lightroom is an interesting enigma for both the team and its users, and I can’t help but wonder how the recent video landscape changes (5D MKII, D90) are making things even more interesting for future development (of which I have little insight now). This plug-in might spur the debate some.
      • Adorama is running a promotion that gives you $50 back if you buy Lightroom 2 and a DSLR (obviously from them).
      • Lightroom’s backup feature is a bit wanting. This has come up here before, and the team knows about it. One gotcha is that the Backup that does exist in the application today only backs up the Catalog - you’ll need to backup all the photos yourself. The best way to do this is a RAID or Drobo device - just plug it in and save yourself the hassles of a Chron type app. I saw one crazy article on the web this week recommending that you backup with the export dialog, which is kinda silly if you ask me. If you don’t have an array, just buy ChronoSync and be done with it. And save for a Drobo.
      • Auto Advance - a cool feature I had to be told about after complaining on Twitter about the CapsLock-itis I was suffering from. Speeds up your editing prowess. Rawwwr.
      • Wonderland Presets are now priced less - at $40 or so. I’ve downloaded their samples, but have yet to actually pay for presets. Shrug. Never saw the need, but maybe this is yoru cup-o-tea.
      • 6 great Adjustment Brush tutorials for Lightroom 2. The shining feature of LR 2! w00t. Saves me more time by spending less in Photoshop - and its still true almost a year after we released it.
      • Nik Software last week announced that all their plugins are now Lightroom capable. You’ll still need a trip to tiff land, nixing (NIking?) them from my workflow. I just don’t like to go outside the Raw world and get all destructive on my images. A 24 MB 5D2 file chews on enough space itself, without resorting to a 150 MB tiff file. YMMV.
      • An interview with Jerry Couvoisier over at the UK’s Photoshop Daily. It even says he’s a guru, so get thee hence to his Ashram of enlightenment Winking
      • Ansel Adams was a great photographer. Personally, I’m not so interested in landscape photography - and I have nothing more than a passing fancy for Adam’s work. However, he defined what most of us today consider the “perfect silver print” and heavens knows that many spent hours surrounded by chemicals looking to dupe his look. Apparently people are looking for a shortcut today to Adams bliss. Read the comments. Funny.
      • Flickr preset extractor. ha ha. Then the world asplode. Personally, I saw this as lazy, shrugged and went to Flickr and made sure I stripped metadata from my files on export. Hey, this kinda relates to the previous item. Lots of controversy. What would we do without it? Take pictures?
      • I became important last week. Sweet.
      • A few numbers quantifying Lightroom’s speed. A friend of mine was doing something similar with a shared Google spreadsheet - I should look into that.
      • Lightroom Collections are “teh bomb”. Learn them. Use them courtesey of lightroomsecrets.com
      • Victoria Brampton points to the flurry of plugin development recently. Add in Jeff’s work above and yeah, its an interesting world.

      Not Lightroom related, but interesting

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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos...


      Some non-Lightroom stuff you should know:


      Thats it for today folks. Pass it along, would ya?
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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, meus queridos...



      On the broader front, here are some interesting things from this week:

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, cher readers.


      A few other interesting things to peruse:


      That is about it for this week. Have a great Tuesday!
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, cher readers.


      Non-Lightroom, but interesting:

      • 5DMark II video a bit shaky? Try this.
      • Need a way to suspend that speedlight over something. Try this.
      • Check out yesterday’s Inspiration Monday for some great photography and a way to help people in India get clean water.

      And from the weirdy files:

      • This bizarre blog popped up today. Its pretty amazing in a “word salad, multiple computer translation, inadvertent mash-up, look-at-me-i’m stealing-other-peope’s-content-and-mangling-it” kinda way. And a hint to you new pirate bloggers: you really should not run with the pre-filled hint text. isn’t a good entry for your “About Me” box.


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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, cher readers.


      That is it for this week. Have a great Tuesday.
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.


      Not Lightroom related, but cool:

      • Stephen Zeller is making/selling a gel kit for your speedlight. I’ve been meaning to buy, but have been put off by prices on the other options. This is 1/2 the cost. Just ordered mine.
      • Want to learn to integrate video and stills together to put you above your competition. Robert Evans and Curt Apanovitch will teach you how to do this in their 2 day PhotoFusion Tour currently traveling around the country. Check it out.
      • Mad Mimi for email marketing. Pretty darn cool.
      • Fashion retouching tips from The Fashion Photography blog. Good stuff.
      • Have a SmugMug site but don’t like the default look (me neither). SmugMug just released the Easy Customizer that lets you point and click your way to a custom SmugMug site - build it the way you would like. The Easy Customizer is available in your Tools menu as well as the Control Panel > Customize tab. I demand awesomeness!


      Thats it for this week. Have a great Tuesday!
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      Lightoom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.


      Well, that is it for today. A lot of great stuff to keep your head spinning for at least a few days.

      Have a great Tuesday.
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      Adobe Lightroom 2: Workflow for Busy Photographers

      I recently saw a tweet from someone requesting a basic rundown of how one sets up Lightroom. That reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to do for some time.

      A few years back, I’d authored a quick PDF to distribute to friends as they pondered getting into Lightroom. It was 2006/2007 and software like Lightroom was new and the hegemony of Bridge/ACR/Photoshop hadn’t yet been broken.

      It has been extremely popular ever since, despite not making it all that public, and I’ve sent thousands of copies to photographers over the past few years.

      Upon opening it the other day, I discovered it was a bit long in the tooth, so I dusted it off (metaphorically speaking) and reworked it in InDesign to include some new info, omit some of the less important stuff and generally updated it for Lightroom 2. It’s not a huge thing, only 13 pages long, but it can help you get started with Lightroom.

      So without much more fanfare, may I present V2 of my Adobe Lightroom 2: Workflow for Busy Photographers PDF for your perusal?

      lightroom2-WBP2

      It’s technically a beta release, and I’m sure it needs some more refining, but I’ll get to that over the next while. I’m sure some will find it as useful as version 1 was way back when.

      If you have edits, additions or commentary, please feel free to comment below and I’ll gladly respond.


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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday.

      This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I gather together the best presets, tips, tricks, tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.


      Not Lightroom related, but kinda cool:

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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday, aptly named as each Tuesday I gather together presets, tips, tricks, tutorials and the like from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.

      Sorry for the late post today. Busy with work and I’m traveling (in Moab again).

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      Recommended Read: +10% Photoshop

      Every once in a while I’ll peruse past articles on sites I link to as part of Lightroom Tuesday.

      I generally find a few nuggets worth reading, and today I found a real gem that deserves a highlight because it calls out something I’ve been pushing for years to anyone who would listen.

      The article by Michael Gray as it sums up the way I’ve felt since I first imported images into a small skunkworks application in the dark halls at Adobe.

      First read the article:

      10percent


      Now to some quick history. I was at Adobe for almost 10 years and worked on a variety of photo-related tools for them. But it was painfully obvious for several years that we were not doing the right thing with Bridge/ACR/Photoshop and that standard hegemony baloney. No naming names here, but resistance and status quo were the norm.

      So when Shadowlands (what became Lightroom) came along, it was an epiphany for those of us who were not overly interested in protecting an aging behemoth at the expense of efficiency and elegance. It took forever for Adobe to realize that (lots of tell-all here that I’ll skip) but the suits finally figured it out and did the right thing. Lightroom shipped and redefined the space. Aperture, of course, primed the pump and was like a frying pan upside the heads of those that deserved it.

      I quickly joined the LIghtroom team and was happy as a clam. While not perfect, Lightroom is the best photographic tool we have for the majority of camera slingers today. Supported by Photoshop or other plugin tools (Nik etc), you have a great beginnings of a workflow that actually makes sense for today’s marketplace. Instead of bouncing around in a balkanized (and pixel-destruction) space, we have something better. Huzzah.

      And, while I left Adobe last year, there are some good people working on Lightroom that will continue to help it evolve in the right place. We knew it would take some time to take over the entrenched priesthood that ran the photo world, but its well on its way.

      Go Team!


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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday, aptly named as each Tuesday I gather together presets, tips, tricks, tutorials and the like from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers. After a week hiatus, I’m back with some great things from the past 2 weeks...

      Well, that is a boatload of stuff to keep you busy.

      Have a great Tuesday!
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      Lightroom Tuesday

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday, aptly named as each Tuesday I gather together presets, tips, tricks, tutorials and the like from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.


      That is it for this week. Kinda short, but it’s my birthday and I’m going to go climb a mountain today (a tradition) instead of sit in front of this computer.

      Cheers!
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      Lightroom Tuesday!

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      Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday, aptly named as each Tuesday I gather together presets, tips, tricks, tutorials and the like from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers.

      Thats it mes amis. Its a busy day and I’m off to design-la-la-land.
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