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Here’s a short video showing how to generates the look of a Tilt Shift lens in Lightroom. As a user of the 24mm TSE Canon lens, it’s nice to be able to use this look on other shots where either I didn’t have the lens, or the right focal length

Users of my Timelapse Presets, should note that using Sync, you can apply this to your sequence to create a tilt shift timelapse.

This is a HD video, so make sure you click select 720 and full screen to see it best.

Camera Raw engineer Eric Chan has announced the release of new Beta profiles for the Niokn D3 and D700 cameras:

Overview

These updated Camera v2 beta profiles for the Nikon D3 and Nikon D700
are designed to reduce banding and highlight color artifacts. Note
that highlight areas may appear a little brighter compared to the
earlier profiles.

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Installation

If you are on Mac OS X, drag the “Camera v2 beta” folder to:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles

If you are on Windows XP, drag the “Camera v2 beta” folder to:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, drag the “Camera v2 beta”
folder to:

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

Note that the above path on Windows Vista and Windows 7 may be hidden
by default. Check your folder settings.

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Feedback

The profiles are currently in beta status. Please provide feedback via
the online Adobe user-to-user forums here:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/cameraraw
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom

These profiles are being well received by Nikon users, especially those concerned with ‘Hue twists’.

Download is available from the announcement post.

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For some  Lightroom and Camera Raw users there has  been a certain amount of confusion surrounding the White Balance Temp slider interface. In this movie I run through the basic principles of how to use the White Balance tool and explain how the Temp and Tint sliders are used to ‘assign’ a white balance setting rather than actually ‘create’ a white balance setting (which is where the confusion arises). Plus did you know that the White Balance sliders can also play a signifcant role in black and white conversions?

Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

Continuing with the Toolstrip, here is a short video on using the Redeye tool in the Develop Module of Lightroom. This is a Quicktime Movie and a compatible player is downloadable from Apple.com

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The default Lightroom Develop panel settings don’t include an invert tone curve for converting a negative image into a positive, but it is possible to create one of your own. There are several ways you can do this and the method illustrated here in this movie is the simplest you can use to create a custom invert setting.

This tutorial came about in response to a photographer who wanted to photograph negatives with his digital SLR and process them directly in Lightroom. This is the solution I suggested, but as you will see, you do end up in a situation where all your major tone edit controls work in reverse, so you have to use the Blacks slider to control the highlight clipping point and the Exposure slider to set the black clipping point. However, the ability to create this type of setting for use in Lightroom does extend the range of Develop settings and what you can do creatively in Lightroom by applying invert tone curves to produce creative effects such as the Smoke presets creates by Sean McCormack.

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Those of you who attended my sessions on Lightroom at the recent Photoshop World conference in Boston may remember me saying that some of the session content could also be found here on the Lightroom-news website.

In this movie I wanted to show a comparison between the Saturation and Vibrance sliders and in particular the damaging effect a Saturation boost have on the highlight channel clipping. I also go on to show how to restore detail through the use of targeted HSL adjustments and finally, an example of where screen preview color management may fall apart and how to relate the Vibrance adjustments you make in the Develop module to the actual final print.

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In this movie I wanted to explain the difference between using the Exposure and Brightness sliders. The first section shows a basic introduction where I use the Exposure slider first and then fine-tune the remaining Basic panel settings. I then go on to demo the use of a strong negative Exposure adjustment. This is followed by an example of why an Exposure led image adjustment will produce an image with better image detail in the midtone to highlight areas compared to a Brightness slider led adjustment.

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The humble Blacks slider plays an important role in allowing you to optimize the contrast of your photos as you process them in the Develop module. This movie clip is all about how much to safely clip the blacks when working with different types of images as well as how the black clipping point you set in Lightroom relates to the black clipping point of the print output process. The answer to the question ‘how black should I make my blacks’ may be easier than you think.

Note that in the final section where I compare different output profile conversions, the Black Point Compensation box must be kept checked (which is the default setting). You would also want to make sure this box is checked when making a print via the Photoshop Print dialog. And in the case of Lightroom printing, this is always enabled anyway.

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Shortly after the release of Lightroom 1.0, I made a video tutorial which showed how you could use the HSL panel controls to achieve improved, reduced noise Grayscale conversions in Lightroom. That particular problem was resolved with one of the later Lightroom 1.x updates and it is now fine to use the Grayscale panel controls to achieve optimum black and white conversions. In this movie I wanted to show how you can also fine-tune the Grayscale conversion setting by combining these with Camera Calibration panel adjustments.