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Lightroom Engineer Eric Scouten has posted a highly informative article over at the Official Lightroom Blog: Lightroom Journal

Eric: “So you want to make sure you’ve identified all of the people you know in your Lightroom catalog, but … you have several thousand photos in your catalog and you don’t want to spend time reviewing photos you’ve already keyworded. How to avoid that?

This is where a technique I call worklist keywords comes in handy. The idea is simple: Use another keyword to keep track of which photos you’ve reviewed for a certain subject area. Here’s how it works:”

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Technology buff Terry White discusses using an external GPS unit with your camera and Lightroom.
“I’m a bit of a GPS buff. I have them in my cars and I even have a portable Garmin Nuvi 360 for travel and use in rental cars. So it’s quite natural that when I learned about this
Sony Unit for Digital Still Cameras that I was quite intrigued.”
Terry goes on to detail using the device with a 3rd party program called HoudahGeo and how to use that information in Lightroom. Well worth a read, including the comments, which contain information on an alternative device.

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Via John Nack

Author: Mark Hamburg
Source: Lightroom Journal

Over on the Lightroom Journal, Mark Hamburg, Lightroom’s chief engineer has written about the nature of Lightroom, what the program’s goals were and a little background on the thought processes that went into the design and implementation of the Lightroom program…

As if he was reading my mind on the matter, Matt Kloskowski has produced a video tutorial on using Collections. This was subject matter I was going to cover but seeing as Matt has done a great job on it, I’ll defer to him on this.
Matt says, “I’ll be the first to admit that there are plenty of features in Lightroom that a real-world use is not immediately obvious. I started thinking about collections the other day (that’s what I do on my time off ) and realized that there are so many real-world uses for them in Lightroom but I haven’t seen them covered much. So that’s just what we’ll do in this video. Collections are something I use every time I step into Lightroom and I think they’re incredibly useful so I figured I’d share my thoughts on them and hopefully make things easier for you too.”
Just as a quick addendum to the video, one thing Matt doesn’t mention about Collections, is that they remember the presets you use with them. So if you have a particular Slideshow preset you wanted to use with a collection, select it and the collection will remember it. The same applies for Web galleries.

Adobe have posted a video tutorial, created by George Jardine, to their Design Center Tutorials. Covering techniques for White Balance setting, it really is a helpful video for getting started with Develop. If you’ve been following George’s podcast, then this may seem a little familiar to you. It was originally posted as Podcast number 33 from George’s Lightroom Podcasts.

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Andy Rahn, from the Adobe Lightroom team, has an excellent walkthrough on solving an installation issue with Lightroom 1.2. What is a clever move on the part of the installer, is turning out to be a problem for a number of non English users. Basically Lightroom checks your regional settings and installs itself with the relevant regional language, even with the installer in English (French & German being the other languages in the normal installer). Not all users want to use this version and would prefer to work through English. This article shows how to get the English version instead of the regional version.

Lightroom 1.2 and Camera Raw 4.2 are now available. Lightroom customers will receive an update notification through Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 users will be able to download the Camera Raw 4.2 update through the Adobe Update Manager. This update also includes the DNG Converter 4.2. Details as well as direct links for all updates are listed below.

Joe over at Lightroom Galleries has been turning user comments into bug fixes for this great little gallery.

Update includes:
- Minor bug fixes
- Fixed PayPal display error when using non USD currency symbols
- Scrollbar will now appear if your browser is smaller then the gallery so users can see all content
- The image strip will also center itself as long as the browser is larger then the gallery content
- Because of a firefox and flash bug Joe removed the transparent background capability

Source: Photoshopnews.com
Author: PSN Editorial Staff

Jeff Schewe writes:

“Last week I stopped by Scott Kelby’s Lightroom LIVE Tour as he blew through the Windy City (that’s Chicago for you folks from away). I grabbed a few shots while visiting. Warning, no particularly important editorial content (but funny shots) included.”

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