February 25, 2008
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and Digital Photography
Author: George Jardine
Photograph © 2003 George A. Jardine
George Jardine has posted a podcast video tutorial on the basics of color correction, using Adobe Lightroom.
“In this tutorial I outline the basics of color correction, in a situation where the color and density of the photograph are wide open to interpretation. Make sure you start with a calibrated and profiled monitor, and then learn to trust your eyes to bring out the very best in your photographs, using the Adobe Lightroom Develop Module.”
Duration: 6:04
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February 25, 2008
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: George Jardine on Lightroom and Digital Photography
Author: George Jardine
Photograph © George A. Jardine
George Jardine has posted a podcast video tutorial on working with RGB files using the Edit in Photoshop command.
“In this tutorial I outline the basics of using Lightroom’s Edit in Photoshop command, specifically as it pertains to RGB files. You’ll learn what your three basic options are, and how they are best used to begin taking advantage of the incredible variety of workflows available, when using Lightroom and Photoshop together.”
Duration: 9:28
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February 24, 2008
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: CnetNews
Author: Walterny
In case you haven’t noticed, CnetNews ran a story this week asking which is better, Aperture or Lightroom? Photoshopnews.com pubished a link to this article and subsequently run a further story questioning whether this was a legitimate poll or not. See: CNET Aperture/Lightroom Poll Skewed? However, further doubts about the reliability of this poll have been raised by reader Walterny, who has made some interesting observations about the apparent static nature of the published poll percentages. Editor’s note: on Sunday afternoon this was showing Aperture 64.2%, Lightroom 35.8%, with 8002 votes cast. Here is what Walterny had to say:
I found myself a bit bored yesterday so was reading various web pages. My home page is Apples start page. One of the links is to a CNET “review” of an Apple photographic software product vs an Adobe equivalent product.
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9875221-39.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703
February 22, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
Geotag-lightroom-plugin is a Beta Geotagging plugin for Lightroom created by Jeff Barnes. It utilises a feature of the Export SDK, whereby you can create a menu item within Lightroom. The plugin reads GPX information and writes it to the file in Lightroom using Exiftool.
Features include:
Sync photo to GPS using picture of GPS display
Interpolate location between track points
Add geotags to original images or save to new location
While there are some issues, the plugin works “for the most part”. Installation instructions and download information can be got at the Plugin homepage.
(Via John Beardsworth.)
February 21, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
Marc Rochkind has announced a new program for Lightroom Users. With LRViewer being a free Catalog Viewer, LRViewer will allow Professional Photographers to tailor the Catalog View that the client sees. Marc has given detailed plans for the program on the LRVeiwer page. Projected features include
DVD burning of Catalog, Previews and Viewer.
Catalog Locking.
EXIF Hiding.
Lock Jpeg Export.
Set maximum preview size.
Logo and Homepage link in Viewer.
As this is aimed at Professionals, this is a paid for product weighing in at $50. LRViewer will continue to be free for distribution and use.
For more information on featured and planned availability, go to the LRViewer page.
February 20, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
While I’m quick to post news about other 3rd party add ons to Lightroom, I tend to be a bit slower about my own, so just some quick links.
I’ve 2 new free galleries for Lightroom. Both are new versions of older galleries, with loads more polish!
The first is the Vertical Scroll Gallery, featuring a menu and a vertical scrolling gallery window.
The second is the Horizontal Scroll Gallery. Not surprisingly it features a menu and a horizontal scrolling gallery.
Other features of both galleries include photo height and width control and a photo border with selectable size and colour.
The second one was popular in the original XSLT from. It has way more features now and is quite customisable.
Using the inbuilt menus, it’s possible to build a website from both of these galleries by inserting the correct links in the Site Info Pane in the Right Panel of web.
February 20, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
Matthew Campagna of The Turning Gate has created 2 new Lightroom Web Galleries as part of the 1st birthday celebration of the release of Version 1 of Lightroom.
Strictly speaking it’s one gallery and one gallery index.
Shadowbox Gallery
February 19, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
Adobe Evangelist George Jardine has posted Podcast #49, with Gregory Heisler: “
‘Maybe you want to do a Brett Weston, and you don’t want anyone to open your files. Maybe you want your files to just die a peaceful death, and you want to pull the plug on them, and send them on to eternity. And what you want are these finished prints; they are the realization of your vision. And everything else was just a way to get there. Like you don’t actually want somebody, in a sense, reprinting from your negatives. You’re done. It’s fine. Even though with photography the temptation is that it’s always an open door, it’s fine to lock the door and throw away the key. That’s OK.’ – Gregory Heisler
February 19, 2008
Posted by Sean McCormack
Marc Rochkind has had a busy few days. After the release of LRViewer on OS X before the weekend, he’s now added a Windows release to the list of compatible OSs’.
Download this great offline Catalog viewer for Lightroom from ImageIngester.com.
February 19, 2008
Posted by LRN Editorial Staff
Source: Photoshopnews.com
Author: Jeff Schewe
In the grand scheme of human history, February 19th may not go down as a momentous occasion, but it’s recently come to light that at least in the world of digital imaging, today signifies a more important date than most anybody realized. And that folks, is the delicious irony.
