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Adobe Evangelist George Jardine has posted Podcast #47. It features Catherine Hall and was recorded on Wednesday November 21st, 2007 at Catherine’s family home in Lafayette, Calfornia. Catherine sits down with George to have a conversation about how her personal work inspires her wedding photography, about her personal approach to working with people, and how working with people from many different socio-economic backgrounds makes it all worthwhile.

“So much of it is having faith in your work and your vision. If you believe in yourself, and you believe in what you’re doing, and you illustrate your vision, then the money will come, and everything will fall into place.” – Catherine Hall

For those abounding on Flickr and other similar sites, here’s a few looks that are currently popular and easy to create with Lightroom:
Let’s start with our base photo:

To get a muted look, start by adding Vibrance and removing Saturation. As Vibrance only saturates colours that are not already saturated, we can effectively remove saturation in a controlled way by applying Vibrance and removing Saturation. I use +50 Vibrance and -50 Saturation as a starting point. Change it to taste from there.

Source: www.beardsworth.co.uk
Author: John Beardsworth

John Beardsworth is a member of the core Adobe Lightroom beta testing team, so as you might expect, he should know a thing or two about Lightroom and in particular how to organise photos in a catalog, which is one of his main specialities (apart from being a professional photographer too). So I was interested in the following article where John expresses his views on the usefulness of multiple catalogs.

Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should : one or many Lightroom catalogues
Lightroom 1.1 made it easier to create and work with more than one catalogue, and it’s making some people think that’s how they should work. I’m not talking about when you’re travelling or need to move pictures between computers, but as a routine way of working. Apart from seeing it in blog posts and forum threads, I’ve been asked about it on a couple of occasions recently, and was also forwarded a discussion where one photographer quoted from my book:

The latest Lightroom 1.3 update features an updated Export dialog with several new features. Rather than just pick out what’s new, I thought I would us this opportunity to write up a complete guide to all the Export controls: what they are and which are the right options for you to use.

The Export function lets you export single or multiple photos from Lightroom as finished files, allowing you to export copies of the master images as DNGs, TIFFs, PSDs, or JPEGs. But that’s not all. You have full control over the exported file settings, where the files get saved to, whether to incorporate a post-processing action and the export settings can be saved as custom presets, making it easy for you to create and use different Export routines.

Earlier in the year we reported on the new Airtight galleries that had been designed as add-ons for the Lightroom Web module. Maybe you checked out this story, downloaded these galleries and installed them. If you didn’t well not to worry, because these are now included as part of the lightroom 1.3 update and provide you with an extra set of gallery formats to compliment the standard Lightroom gallery styles.

Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and Digital Photography
Author: George Jardine

Amidst all the attention for the new 1.3 update, we forgot to post a link to another new Lightroom video tutorial by George Jardine. This one offers some more great tips on working with the Library module and some of the less well-know aspects of photo synching behavior in Lightroom.

Photograph © 2006 George A. Jardine

“A new tutorial that covers the Sync command, and a few ins-and-outs of working with Lightroom’s selection logic.”

In this tutorial I outline the basics of Lightroom’s Synchronize command. You’ll learn how to apply Develop settings across multiple photos, in both the Library and the Develop modules. I also cover some of the new selection logic in Lightroom that is required to make working with large numbers of files, well…. logical!”

Duration: 11:56

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Source: Computer-Darkroom.com
Author: Ian Lyons

So, here we are at Lightroom version 1.3 and the question most users will be asking is – what’s new? On the surface very little, but just like an iceberg there’s lots beneath the surface.

As I hinted in my introduction there are few if any obvious visual changes in in this new release. Lightroom 1.3 is primarily about fixing as many bugs as possible whilst also putting in place infrastructure improvements for the future. The following is a summary of the main issues that Adobe have addressed in 1.3:-

Source: Lightroom Journal
Author: Tom Hogarty

The Lightroom 1.3 and Camera Raw 4.3 updates have been posted to the following locations: Lightroom (Mac, Win), Camera Raw (Mac, Win). The updates include support for the following new camera models:

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III
Canon PowerShot G9
Nikon D3
Nikon D300
Olympus E-3
Olympus SP-560 UZ
Panasonic DMC-L10

Lightroom 1.3 also provides improved support for the OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system.

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Early indications on Adobe’s FTP servers is that Lightroom 1.3 will be available shortly.The Mac version is hereThe Windows version is here

Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and Digital Photography
Author: George Jardine

The Lightroom Catalog – Part 1, or “Where Are My Pictures?”

How many people really understand the relationship between the Lightroom catalog and the underlying system folder structure? On one level I suppose it does not always have to matter, so long as Lightroom knows where everything is stored. But of course, it is always more reassuring to know how Lightroom is managing everything.

George Jardine has just posted a video podcast “that covers the basics of understanding Lightroom’s catalog model. We cover where Lightroom stores your previews and metadata, how Lightroom links to your source files, and how to use Lightroom with Bridge’s browser-based workflow.”

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Duration 22.31