October 25, 2010
The LRB Graduated Filters Presets pack from Lightroom Blog has been updated to Version 3. The addition includes 3 new ‘Tilt Shift’ effect presets. More details and information from Lightroom Blog’s announcement post.
June 30, 2010
Timothy Armes has today released yet another new plugin. FTP Publisher will be of great interest to anyone who needs to upload images directly to an FTP server via Lightroom.
Although this plugin will function in Lightroom 2, users of Lightroom 3 will gain the most benefit since FTP Publisher makes use of the new Publish Services. This allows users to create a collection hierarchy containing images that need to be uploaded and synchronised with a server. Lightroom remembers which images have been modified or removed from the collections and will apply these changes to the server when you ask it to do so.
The plugin is donationware and may be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox.
June 13, 2010
In conjunction with the release of Lightroom 3, D65 launched a new website offering Lightroom Webinars, Tech Support, and intensive Lightroom Workshops. The D65 workshops and interactive, live webinars are a dynamic resource for digital photographers of any level. Their 4-day intensive will equip you with the tools to manage your workflow efficiently, effectively, and effortlessly. The 1.5 hour webinars highlight features of Lightroom 3. Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer are the perfect guides to lead you through the maze technical problems and practical challenges that stand between you and a seamless digital workflow with Lightroom at the core.
Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer, the Co-Founders of D65 also announced their new book , D65′s Lightroom Workbook, Workflow, Not Workslow in Lightroom 3. This book details everything you ever wanted, or needed to know about the five modules in Lightroom, including setting up preferences for optimal results and organizing catalogs. Included is an entire chapter which details the D-65 legendary workflow; an advanced, yet simple workflow from capture through editing, tweaking, processing and exporting.
June 8, 2010
To coincide with the announcement and launch of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 book by Martin Evening and published by Adobe Press, is now also ready to ship. The book will be be available to buy via the Peachpit website, plus the usual on-line and retail stores.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 book contains 672 pages and provides readers with a website <www.thelightroombook.com> with movie tutorials, supplementary PDFs and sample files (registration required). It promises to be the most comprehensive book on Lightroom and all that’s new in Lightroom 3.
March 28, 2010
Katrin Eismann is giving a free 2 hour talk on Lightroom 3 on Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM at the B&H Event Space.
“Take a tour of the new Lightroom 3 software with one of the most distinguished and respected digital artists of our time, Katrin Eismann, Chair of the new Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts. In this lively presentation you’ll learn how the improvements in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 will streamline your image workflow; enhance image processing; and how easy it is to professionally present your images.”
February 12, 2010
Timothy Armes has just released version 1.20 of his Elegance web engine for Lightroom.
Version 1.20 offers a few bug fixes, but the most interesting change could be prove to revolutionise the distribution of Web Engines in general – Elegance is now distributed as a Lightroom plugin.
Traditionally Lightroom Web Engines have been treated as second class citizens. In comparison to plugins, which are installed and managed easily using Lightroom’s plugin manager, the installation of web engines has been a little ‘old-fashioned’, requiring the user to create a specific folder on his or her file system and then copy the Web Engine inside that.
Lightroom doesn’t afford Web Engines the same degree of flexibility as plugins either. The most obvious disadvantage is that updates have to be done manually since there’s no convenient way for a web engine to check for updates automatically.
Timothy decided to use his experience developping Lightroom plugins to circumvent these issues. Distrubuted as a plugin, Elegance is now installed using Lightroom’s plugin manager. The plugin then handles the installation of the Web Engine on the user’s behalf, provides easy access to the user’s registration and also checks for updates automatically. It’s really a very ‘Elegant’ solution (pun intended).
This isn’t the first time that Timothy’s squeezed an extra mile out of Lightroom’s plugin support. When export plugin support was first added to Lightroom 1.3 he quickly thought well outside the box to create the very popular LR/Enfuse – a plugin used to blend multiple exposures together directly from within Lightroom – thereby providing a service that didn’t seem to have anything to do with exporting at all…
You can learn more about Elegance from here:
January 18, 2010
With the recent update to the Lightroom Adobe Certified Expert exam to version 2, Examaids have updated their self help study guide for the exam. The aid contains 335 questions to help the user hone their study for the exam. It also covers the topic list as set out in the new ACE guidelines. There’s a study mode and a practice mode to get you prepared.
January 7, 2010
Matthew Campagna has announced TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9.1 is now available with the following updates:
He also recently released a cool new tool, TTG Viewport Sizer. The tool is available as a free download from the website, and is fully explained and demonstrated here:
http://lightroom.theturninggate.net/special-purpose-templates/ttg-viewport-sizer/
And finally, The Turning Gate has been given a new, Lightroomy redesign for 2010.
December 1, 2009
Nir Dremer has announced the availability of LrSaver. LrSaver is a screensaver which dynamically generates a slideshow according to Lightroom meta-data information.
LrSaver design enables key advantages such as:
Flexibility – Smart grouping of your favorite photographs according to any meta-data fields
Efficiency – Minimal resource utilization by using Lightroom cache (no need to export)
Simplicity – Simple & intuitive user-interface
LrSaver is currently available for Windows, a 14 days trial version is available for download (link).
Mac support will be introduced in few weeks. You can subscribe on LrSaver website to receive Mac support release notification (subscribe here).
LrSaver is currently available in a special introductory price of $9.99.
September 24, 2009
As a suitably impressed X-Rite user, the new X-Rite ColorChecker Passport looks like a great tool for easy colour correction with Lightroom. ColorChecker Passport is designed as a ‘capture to edit’ color solution, using 3 colour target cards (Color Checker, Creative Enhancement Card and Gray Card). When used with Lightroom, combined with the ColorChecker Passport software, these cards can create custom DNG Profiles. The cards themselves sit in a protective case, which also serves as a stand. The product is designed for both landscape and people photography. It also allows a range of colour tones besides neutralising colour casts, via the Creative Enhancement card.
Seth Resnick (D65/Pixel Genius) introduces the CC passport in the video on the website, along with showing how to use it on the shoot and in Lightroom (WordPress won’t allow the video to embed, or I’d simply show it here!). The video is educational and well worth watching.