November 29, 2008
Joe Barrett of The Image-space has just uploaded a new Lightroom 2 ebook on his website.
You reviewed my last book back in March last year. Thanks.
It’ a collection of over 25 tips and techniques that he’s been progressively posting. It’s not the first time you’ve seen the name either, because he also had one for Lightroom 1. As with the first book, this is free, but donations are accepted.
Tips include:
November 27, 2008
Timothy Armes has today annouced a small but very useful update to LR2/Mogrify, his plugin for adding watermarks, annotations and borders to images exported from Lightroom 2.
In this update it’s now possible to include any borders within the size requirements that you specify in the plugin’s resizing panel. For example, it’s now possible to export images that are all 600px wide including any borders. Until now the borders have always been added to this size.
November 25, 2008
Lightroom and Camera Raw Product manager Tom Hogarty has announced the availability of Camera Raw 5.2, while simultaneously announcing that Lightroom 2.2 will be available in December.
Camera Raw 5.2 and DNG Converter Available “
The Camera Raw 5.2 and DNG Converter 5.2 are now available on Adobe.com.(For Photoshop CS4 customers I recommend choosing the ‘Updates…’ option from the Help menu) This release includes additional features and new camera support. Lightroom will be updated to version 2.2 in December to provide the equivalent camera support. New in this release:
November 11, 2008
Based on a question in Lightroom Community Help, I’ve created a short movie showing how to create a triptych from 1 photo in Lightroom.
November 10, 2008
LRB Portfolio, the website in a gallery plugin for Lightroom has been updated to version 1.1. New features include an error page for galleries lacking enough images, body font settings and background image control. Bug fixes include an issue with mail.php generation in 1.03. Current users can get the update through the download email they received with product purchase.
November 8, 2008
Photodex have announced a ProShow Plug-in for Lightroom. Users of ProShow Gold or Producer can now quickly and easily set-up slideshows in Lightroom and export directly to ProShow Gold or Producer. From there you can further refine the Slideshow. As ProShow is PC only, the plugin is also only for PC users.
November 5, 2008
Timothy Armes has announced the release of version 1.40 of LR2/Mogrify, his donationware plug-in for watermarking, annotating and adding borders to images as they are exported from Lightroom
With version 1.40 Timothy has added the single most requested feature that his users have been asking for – the ability to control the size of each border independently, either in pixels or as a percentage of the width or height of the image.
Similarly, the font size can now also be specified as a percentage.
LR2/Mogrify is available from Tim’s web site: http://www.timothyarmes.com/lr2mogrify.php
November 4, 2008
The LRB Graduated Filter Preset pack has been updated to version 2. Adding more filters and offering a choice of naming systems, this pack is designed to be a time saver for those looking to balance skies and foreground. More information on the Filters themselves including purchase information can be had from the LRB Grad product page.