July 25, 2007
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: Pro Photography Show
Author: Dennis “DZ”
Did you know you can totally customize the panel end markers in the new version of Adobe Lightroom 1.1? The updated version now comes with these 13 different markers to choose from. Simply right click or control click on any end panel marker to see your options. So what if none of these fit your style? Create your own! That’s right you can insert your own personal logo or trademark as a panel end marker. How cool is that?
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July 25, 2007
Posted by Martin Evening
Source: Luminous Landscape
Author: Mark Segal
The Luminous Landscape website has posted an essay by Mark Segal, who is a member of the Applied Color Theory List (ACTL), on the subject of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) tone curves. This essay offers a detailed analysis of how the tone curve adjustments that you can apply in Camera Raw or Lightroom compare to the traditional approach of using RGB composite curve adjustments in Photoshop. Over on the ACTL list, Dan Margulis has suggested that it is better to use Camera Raw adjustments to make minor corrections only and use Photoshop Curve adjustments to make the major tone edits. Dan has also argued that in some cases ‘opening the range in Camera Raw actually damaged the image to the point where it was no longer possible to get a good result without excessive effort…’ In response to this claim, Mark has tested his own hypothesis, which is that Camera Raw adjustments applied to a raw capture in Photoshop ACR or Lightroom are not any more destructive than Photoshop and if anything, tone and color edits are easier to make in ACR, but Photoshop edits are still very useful for minor tone and color edits on a rendered raw image.
To access the PDF document and join the discussion you will need to read the full story on the Luminous Landscape website.
July 25, 2007
Posted by Sean McCormack
Some quicklinks to recent Lightroom posts:
July 20, 2007
Posted by Martin Evening
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update:
The Lightroom 1.1 preferences
We’re not quite done yet. There are still a few more innovations in Lightroom 1.1 that should get a mention. Namely, what’s new in the Slideshow Print and Web modules. For this final chapter I have grouped these new features all together into a single section.
To access this and the other feature stories published in this series, click on the stories listed in the top left section under: Lightroom 1.1 update. Or click here to read the full story.
July 14, 2007
Posted by Martin Evening
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update:
The Lightroom 1.1 preferences
So much has been changed in the way that the Lightroom preferences have been laid out and added to, that it seemed best to offer a complete guide to configuring the preference options, including those items that are new to Lightroom 1.1.
To access this and the other feature stories published in this series, click on the stories listed in the top left section under: Lightroom 1.1 update. Or click here to read the full story.
July 14, 2007
Posted by Sean McCormack
In his seemingly never ending quest to create new Web Galleries for Lightroom, Matthew Campagna of The Turning Gate has done it again. This new template combines Alessandro Fulciniti’s Nifty Corners Cube script with Slimbox to create a very modern looking gallery. You can download the gallery from The Turning Gate, along with many others created by Matthew.
July 11, 2007
Posted by Martin Evening
In addition to writing a series of eight feature stories about what’s new in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for Lightroom-news, Martin Evening, author of The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book, has just published a free Lightroom 1.1 PDF supplement update for readers of his book and anyone who is interested in learning about what’s new in Lightroom 1.1. The PDF (20 MB) is 177 pages long and available now for download via the Peachpit website (registration required).
July 10, 2007
Posted by Sean McCormack
Matt Kloskowski has posted an excellent video on using the new Catalog feature in Lightroom 1.1. The video covers exporting a Catalog on your laptop and importing this Catalog into your desktop catalog. He also shows how changes to images already in the Catalog are handled in the import process. The final part of the video covers creating new Catalogs and changing between existing Catalogs. For those interested in syncing between different machines and/or working with multiple Catalogs, this video is a good introduction to those tasks.
July 10, 2007
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: ControlledVocabulary.com
Version 3.o of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog, or CVKC is now available for Lightroom 1.1
“The Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog or CVKC, can be imported into version 1.1 or later of Adobe Lightroom (Lightroom must be purchased separately) using a Text file formatted specifically for Lightroom and saved with a unicode encoding. When installed, the the Keyword Tags panel will look like the image shown below.
The full version 3.x of the CVKC contains approximately 11,000 terms organized in a hierarchical structure. For detailed information on how to install the CVKC see the Lightroom support page.
July 10, 2007
Posted by Martin Evening
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book 1.1 Update:
The Develop Module interface
In this second part feature story on the Develop module in Lightroom 1.1, I focus on new features such as the Clarity slider control, White Balance tool behavior the Remove Spots and Remove Red eye tools, synchronizing spotting in Lightoom (and ACR 4.1), plus Color panel adjustments and new Defringe options.
To access this and the other feature stories published in this series, click on the stories listed in the top left section under: Lightroom 1.1 update. Or click here to read the full story.
