December 4, 2007
Adding to the rapdily expanding list of Lightroom addons, SlideShowPro for Lightroom has just been launched. Taking the form of an easily installable Web Gallery, SlideShowPro allows full production of Flash Galleries, without requiring Flash. The Lightroom version contains the same software as the Flash Components version, but in a form easily editable within Lightroom. Read More..
November 9, 2007
Later today, Friday 9th November, you will be able to download a public beta of Naked light, a new program that looks rather interesting in that it appears it will offer quite a few of the non-destructive features that people have been asking for in Lightroom. There is no information on the site to say who is behind the program’s development, however we do know that it will only run on Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. But not only are the requirements Apple only, the site’s graphics, the interface design, the tightly controlled pre-release marketing, even the countdown time clock. Everything here does look very ‘Apple’…
From the Naked light website:
Public beta arriving Friday, November 9th, 2007.
The emperor has new clothes. Introducing Naked light. Non-destructive image editing. Node-based compositing. Live filters. High-end tools. And infinite resolution. It’s image editing, re-invented. Take the tour.
October 26, 2007
Photos © 2007 by Martin Evening and Andrew RodneyThe annual PDN Photo Plus event took place from the 18th–20th October at the Javits Center, New York. Once again, the Pixel Geniuses were all out in force at the show, as were many of our friends and colleagues at Adobe. Here is a picture diary of some of the things that happened last week, with photographs by myself and Andrew Rodney.You can read the full story on our sister site, PhotoshopNews.com
October 16, 2007
PixelGenius members will be at next week’s PhotoPlus Expo, check out what’s happening and what we’ll be doing.
We all get in early because we’ll be having a PixelGenius meeting (it’s always tough to figure out how to hook up with Martin over in London–although Seth was over there this week for a visit and workshop). Starting on Thursday, October 18th, we’ll be invading the expo and talking up a storm.
September 7, 2007
Jeff Schewe writes:
“Last week I stopped by Scott Kelby’s Lightroom LIVE Tour as he blew through the Windy City (that’s Chicago for you folks from away). I grabbed a few shots while visiting. Warning, no particularly important editorial content (but funny shots) included.”
July 14, 2007
In his seemingly never ending quest to create new Web Galleries for Lightroom, Matthew Campagna of The Turning Gate has done it again. This new template combines Alessandro Fulciniti’s Nifty Corners Cube script with Slimbox to create a very modern looking gallery. You can download the gallery from The Turning Gate, along with many others created by Matthew.
July 10, 2007
Matt Kloskowski has posted an excellent video on using the new Catalog feature in Lightroom 1.1. The video covers exporting a Catalog on your laptop and importing this Catalog into your desktop catalog. He also shows how changes to images already in the Catalog are handled in the import process. The final part of the video covers creating new Catalogs and changing between existing Catalogs. For those interested in syncing between different machines and/or working with multiple Catalogs, this video is a good introduction to those tasks.
June 29, 2007
Source: www.scottkelby.com
Author: Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby today anounced a Lightroom 1.1 update kit for The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers.
Yippie! It’s up!!! (I guess it actually went up yesterday, but I didn’t get the exact URL for the download until this morning. Sorry ’bout that).
Remember: this update was created exclusively for people who actually own my book “The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers” and I created this 1.1 Update Kit as an added benefit for those specific people (whom I dearly love, by the way).
June 28, 2007
Source: O’Reilly Digital Media, Inside Lightroom
Author: Colleen Wheeler
My favorite thing about the release of Lightroom 1.1? We’re going to press this week with Mikkel’s beautiful book, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure. And we’re doing so knowing that it will be the most up-to-date Lightroom book out there. Over the past few months, Mikkel has been painstakingly updating the manuscript for the changes anticipated in version 1.1, a monumental task. Not only did he have to diligently monitor and document all the great new features that were being added for LR 1.1, but he had to reshoot most of the nearly one thousand images in the book to reflect the new interface.
June 13, 2007
Ian Lyons, from Computer-Darkroom, has posted an article on locating missing files inside Lightroom.
Question – My thumbnails have a ? symbol on the top right corner – what does this mean and how do I remove it?
Short Answer – The ? symbol is used to identify a file that Adobe Lightroom can no longer access; probably because it has been moved using one of the Operating System tools such as drag/drop or possibly the Move command. Unfortunately, Adobe Lightroom currently has no way of tracking such changes, so the ? symbol is displayed to warn the user that the file or folder containing the file can no longer be accessed.
Long Answer – Locating Missing Files and Folders
Even though Lightroom now uses the Folder paradigm rather than Shoots (as was the case during the public beta), it doesn’t display the full disk/folder hierarchy in the tree form that most users would be familiar with. This means that moving folders from disk to disk or even to a section of the hard disk not shown on the Lightroom Folders panel very often needs to be done using OS level tools such as Drag/Drop or even the Move command. The problem with this approach is that Lightroom can easily lose track of your files, and this results in the ? symbol being displayed.
Read the whole article.
Ian Lyons runs Computer-Darkroom.com and is Forum Host for the Adobe Lightroom User 2 User forum.
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