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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.

Timothy Armes has today announced a series of “Web Site Publisher Pro” plugins that offer users a revolutionary new way to create an entire web presence, including multiple content pages and a complete hierarchy of galleries, from within Lightroom 3.

Rather than creating a single gallery in the web module you instead design the look and feel of your entire site from there, and to actually create and upload a site you then use the Publish Services in the library module. By adding collections and collection sets to the publish service you can create a complete web site that includes a full structured hierarchy of galleries. When images are added or modified the publish service will only upload the changes (unlike the web module which needs to upload the whole site).

It’s really never been so easy to create a web site from within Lightroom, it’s never before been possible to create a gallery hierarchy using collections and sets, and no other web engines allow you to incrementally upload your changes to the site. The are plenty of other pleasant surprises too, such as the use of Markdown formatted text to give you unprecedented control over the content on your page, and automatic generation of the scripts that handle contact forms.

By generating the gallery via the Publish Services rather than through the Web Module the plugins are able to handle tasks that are currently impossible for other Web Engines, and the resulting ease of creating and maintaining a site is astonishing.

The first plugin in the series to be made available is Timothy’s Impact Web Engine, however versions for Elegance and Jigasawrus will be coming soon.

More info can be found here:

Impact WSPP : http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/impact_wspp.php
Information about the Web Site Publisher Pro series: http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/wspp.php

Here are a couple of demonstration sites:

http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/wspp/seriesofseries/

To really show of the power of this new plugin Peter Karlsson managed to create this incredible website with less than a day’s work, including establishing the design and creating the gallery hierarchy. If photography like this doesn’t inspire you then nothing will!
http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/wspp/svarteld/

Users of RedCart, the shopping cart service for photographers, will no doubt be very happy to hear that Timothy Armes has released a Lightroom plugin that’s designed to greatly simplify the process of uploading images to a RedCart system.

LR/RedCart will export images from Lightroom at the correct size, create the thumbnails, and upload everything to the right place. Lightroom 3 users can use the Publish Services to allow them to manage collections and galleries with ease from within the Library module.

LR/RedCart can be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox (http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrredcart.php)

As per recent releases, Adobe are sending out Release Candidate versions of forthcoming software. These have been tested, but are being put before a wider audience in case of missed major bugs.

Additionally, this is the first showing of the Adobe Lens Profile downloader. This companion application allows users to download, rate and comment on lens profiles for Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop.

Newly supported cameras include

More information can be had at Lightroom Journal, or from the individual pages on Adobe Labs: Lightroom 3.3, Camera Raw 6.3, Lens Profiler Downloader

TTG Stage CE creates embed pages for Flash galleries and video files. With TTG Stage CE, photographers may apply site branding and navigation to Flash images galleries, and make Flash image galleries and videos accessible to mobile devices running Apple’s iOS, Android OS or Blackberry OS 6. With TTG Stage CE, the Lightroom Flash Gallery, Simpleviewer and other Flash galleries are given new life in the age of the iPhone!

Videos may be embedded from Vimeo or YouTube, or hosted on the photographer’s own web server and embedded using HTML5. In all cases, video is universally accessible from desktop machines and mobile devices.

TTG Stage CE is the first web engine to be released built on The Turning Gate’s new “Core Elements” HTML5 framework. A full press release and demonstration galleries are available here:
http://theturninggate.net/articles/ttg-stage-ce-announced/

Be sure to visit the demonstration galleries using both your desktop machine and your phone!

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.

Timothy Armes has today released “Zip Exporter”, a handy little plugin for creating Zip archives of photos and images via Lightroom’s Export feature.

The Zip archives can also be password protected for greater security, which is great for sending images to clients.

The plugin is donationware, and can be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox (http://photographers-toolbox.com/products/zipexporter.php)

Timothy Armes has today released a new plugin for creating a “storyboard” of images from within Lightroom. The plugin will create a single image that groups the ones that you have selected, and there are lots of options for changing the presentation.

The plugin is donationware. Read more about it here: http://photographers-toolbox.com/blog/2010/10/storyboarder/

Lightroom Journal has announced that Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.  These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new features for Lightroom.

There’s over 120 new lens profiles, most of which are made in conjunction with the lens manufacturer.

New Camera Support

Canon EOS 60D

Casio EXILIM EX-FH100*

Fuji FinePix HS10

Leica S2 (DNG*)

Panasonic DMC-FZ100

Panasonic DMC-FZ40 (FZ45)

Panasonic DMC-LX5

Pentax 645D

Samsung NX10

Samsung TL500 (EX1)

Sony A290

Sony A390

Sony Alpha NEX-3

Sony Alpha NEX-5

Sony SLT-A33

Sony SLT-A55V

^*The DNG raw file format is supported in previous versions of Lightroom and Camera Raw. This update improves the color and noise profiles for these models.

Timothy Armes has released version 4.00 of his very popular LR/Enfuse plugin.

This plugin can be used to blend multiple exposures of a scene in order to create an image with greater apparent dynamic range. Exposure blending is similar to HDR, but the results are most often far more natural.

Here are the highlights:

-LR/Enfuse now uses (and requires) Enfuse version 4. This is the latest version of Enfuse and offers niceties such as multi-processor support for improved performance.
-The installation procedure has been greatly simplified. Users no longer need to download and install the third party applications themselves, the plugin can do this for them.
-LR/Enfuse now supports blending of focus stacks!
This plugin is donationware and may be downloaded from the Photographer’s Toolbox.