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Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and digital photography
Author: George Jardine

Hot on the heels of George’s video podcast about refine photos basics, comes a video podcast interview with Eric Scouten, the database engineer on the Lightroom team.

“A conversation with Eric Scouten from the Lightroom team.

Photograph © 2006 George Jardine. Special thanks to John Cornicello for additional photographs that appear in the podcast.

This podcast was recorded on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at Adobe offices in Seattle, WA. Eric sits down with George to have a conversation about Lightroom 1.0, improvements in 1.1, about Eric’s photography, and how his personal methods of photo organization have played a role in the development of Lightroom’s database strategy.

Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and digital photography
Author: George Jardine

George Jardine has just posted a new video podcast tutorial about refining photos in Lightroom

“A new mini-tutorial showing how the Refine Photos command works, to help you quickly edit a shoot down into picks and rejects.”

Photograph © 2006 George Jardine. Special thanks to Helga and Iceland Models for allowing me to publish these photos for tutorial purposes.

Source: DxO.com

DxO Optics have just released a tips and tricks news item showing how to integrate DxO Optics Pro 4.5 (and above) with Lightroom, showing how you can call DxO Optics Pro directly from the Lightroom program.

“DxO Optics Pro v4.5 is the first major photographic software application to start building a common workflow with Adobe Lightroom. We’ve long been pioneers in establishing compatibility with Adobe technologies and this is no exception. We see Adobe Photoshop Lightroom as an important platform for photographers and our goal will be to enrich that platform and provide better value for you – the photographer.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update:
The new look Develop module menu

If you thought that the Library module had a lot of new additions, just wait till you see what the Develop module has in store. The recent Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 update offered a few clues as to what you might expect to see in Lightroom 1.1, things like the new sharpening and clarity adjustments. To borrow Russell Brown’s catchphrase ‘but wait, there’s more…!’, there is indeed more. We’ve got Match Exposure, hierarchical presets, camera-specific defaults, new tool overlays, plus new improvements to the Remove Spots and Remove Red Eye tools (which I shall be covering in the second part to this story about the Develop module).

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.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update:
Sharpening and noise reduction

Capture sharpening for a sharp start
In this feature story I wanted to concentrate on the new sharpening and noise reduction controls in Lightroom 1.1. But before discussing the new sharpening controls, I should briefly explain the principle behind capture sharpening and the difference between this and output sharpening.

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.

Source: Beardsworth.co.uk
Author: John Beardsworth

John Beardsworth, author of Digital Photographer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has posted a handy little tip for creating Virtual Copy Collections of photos in Lightroom 1.1.

When you write a book on version 1.0 of a program, things are very much in flux. Apart from your publisher’s deadline. Features change subtly and others are pulled at the last minute, or later, and you’re never going to anticipate what might will appear in a dot release just a few months later – days after your book hits the streets. So while I’m not going to list the detailed changes (I recommend reading through this list of changes), this is the first of a few notes on how to take advantage of what’s in Lightroom 1.1.

Source: Luminous-Landscape.com
Author: Michael Reichmann

Free Lightroom V1.1 Video Tutorial Now Available

Lightroom V1.1, which became available a couple of days ago as a free upgrade, has generated a lot of excitement. It offers quite a bit more than a typical point release, and it addresses many of the concerns that early users rightfully had. Foremost among these is the ability to export and merge Libraries (now called Catalogs).

Source: Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog
Author: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl last week posted an update to his Custom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder. You can go direct to Jeffrey’s Lightroom Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder page and use his online tool to create custom Metadata panel presets. But we highly recommend you read the post of instructions first.

Source: Camera Darkroom
Author: Ian Lyons

A number of readers have contacted me via e-mail to ask why I’ve not included any information on Lightroom 1.1′s ability to use embedded GPS data to link up with Google Earth. The reason is actually quite simple – it’s not a new feature. Nevertheless, folk have asked that some reference be made to the feature, so who am I to argue.

Some months back Martin Evening had used a number of images from my photo shoot in Antarctica to illustrate an article he wrote on the subject of GPS and Google Maps for LightroomNews. Martin’s excellent article should provide sufficient information on how Lightroom handles GPS data in images, etc but I’ve included a couple of screenshots to whet your appetite for the possibilities this feature offers.

Joe over at Lightroom Galleries has been busy creating a new gallery that includes an optional Paypal shopping cart.

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