Lightroom-News.com

We’ve been working on it for a while, but wanted to wait until Lightroom was announced before taking it live, but here it is…Lightroom-News.com the sister news site for all things Lightroom (and some other stuff thrown it for taste).

Martin Evening will be sharing duties as Editor in Chief with Jeff Schewe. Contributing Editors are; Ian Lyons, Sean McCormack, Seth Resnick & Andrew Rodney.

So, how will Lightroom-News be different than Photoshop-News.com? Both sites will cover their own product exhaustively and there will be a little bit of useful overlap. Clicking on the various story links will just move you around to the most comprehensive sites on Photoshop and Lightroom you are likely to find.

Over on my Lightroom Blog I’ve posted a first look video on the Metadata Browser.

The Metadata Browser allows powerful searching inside a number of selected EXIF/IPTC fields: Lens, Camera, Creator, Date, File Type and Location. For people using Genre based folder systems the Date function is one the most important features, allowing you to select multiple dates using CMD/CTRL click.

Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook author John Beardsworth has some good points to make on using Lightroom to process multiple images: “When you’re working with large numbers of pictures, you’ve got to lose the fine art one-off mentality that’s appropriate for Photoshop”. His initial method for batching might surprise: “This means using Library’s Quick Develop as much as possible”.

since1968.com has an interview with Mark Hamburg, the “founder” of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom as well as being an Adobe Fellow (and “a recovering Photoshop expert”-Mark’s words).

Mark talks a bit about Lightroom’s origins and why he was prompted to work on the project after spending so much time on Photoshop-he was the 2nd engineer, after Thomas Knoll, to work on Photoshop.

Mark says “I started out worrying about alternative paradigms for image editing, but then my manager at the time, Greg Gilley, who was an avid photographer, started to push toward: ‘Well, we just have all this stuff, and how do we deal with lots of images and what can we get out of pushing ACR further.’ Actually the way he got me to deal with that was he pushed me to go get a camera and start shooting more. I very rapidly determined that as interesting as it was to do image editing there was clearly just a general problem that comes from shooting far more than the tools are really built to deal with. At this stage it’s focused on ‘I’m shooting gigs of images and I need a tool to deal with that.’”

Source: The New York Times
Written by Ian Austen

Photo management once meant finding room to stash yet another box filled with snapshots. While digital photography has freed up that closet space, sorting and retrieving pictures in the era of the 250-gigabyte hard drive has created a set of challenges of its own.