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Former Adobe Evangelist George Jardine has announced his new Lightroom 3 workflow and management video tutorials. George was the original Lightroom video guy from the early days of Lightroom and is both a gifted photographer and great educator. This course is 4 1/2 hours long, over 15 different videos, and dives deeply into the Library.
The videos cover:

Photo Library Structure – 10:49
The Lightroom Catalog Overview – 6:23
The Lightroom User Interface – 15:21
The Pro Workflow Overview – 32:50
The Lightroom Import Dialog – 14:15
The Library Module – Part 1 – 23:42
The Library Module – Part 2 – 25:21
Keywords & Metadata – 19:57
File Renaming – 18:54
Editing Methods in Lightroom 3 – 23:35
The Lightroom Filter Bar – 12:29
Virtual Copies – 9:16 (Check out the free sample movie, here.)
The Export Dialog & Publish Services – 13:35
The Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow – 17:09
Digital Photo Library Backup Strategies – 16:43
Working With Multiple Lightroom Catalogs – 20:15

Priced at a very reasonable $29.95. More information is available from http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=2.

The new Publish option in Lightroom 3 Beta allows you a handy way to control what photos are on your iPhone without iPhoto. Fortunately iTunes allows you to select a folder that will sync to the iPhone instead.

First up, create a folder called iPhone on your hard drive. Next, in Lightroom 3 Beta’s Library Module, go to the Publish Services section on the bottom of the left panel. Click on the ‘+’ beside ‘Publish Services’ and choose ‘Manage Publish Connections’. This opens a dialog box that’s remarkably similar to Export.

One feature sorely lacking in Lightroom is a good watermark on Export. Using the fabulous 3rd party plugin LR2/Mogrify from Timothy Armes solves this issue for a straight export, but unfortunately post process plugins are not available in the Web Module. So how can we do it?

Well for my recently launched music photography website Muso Foto, I wanted nice (i.e. not the normal Lightroom one) watermarks on my images. Nothing intrusive, but something that doesn’t take away from the image.

Here’s the steps I took:

Continuing in the series on the Toolstrip, here’s a short movie on the Graduated Filter. This video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

After much editing and an eventual rerecording, here’s the second installment in our series about the Toolstrip. Here we discuss the Spot Removal tool.
This video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.