Building Hierarchal Keyword Lists for Lightroom

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One of the things that I really love about Photoshop Elements is its ability to build heirarchal keyword tags. If you aren’t sure what that is, it’s like having subsets of keywords inside of broader keywords. So, let’s say you like to shoot flowers. You could have an overarching keyword for flowers and within that, [...]

Announcing My Next Snapshots to Great Shots Book for Lightroom

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You may have heard that Adobe recently released their public beta for the next version of Lightroom. I was extremely glad to hear that because it also means that I am free to announce my next book, Photoshop Lightroom: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Even though this book is timed to coincide with the release of Lightroom [...]

MIA – But With a Good Reason

Wow, it seems like forever since my last blog post. I have really wanted to get on and do some updates but my schedule has been seriously packed with a deadline item that took precedent over everything else. So what is it that has kept me so busy? Well, you might have read in a past post about a [...]

My Peachpit Photo Club Presentation is Now Online

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It seems like such a long time ago that I was in San Francisco for the Photoshop & You pop-up store event but it was just a short couple of weeks ago. Where does the time go?  You may recall that I gave a presentation at the store that was recorded for the Peachpit Photo [...]

A Great Day at the Photoshop & You Store

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I arrived in the Bay area on Monday and, after dropping my bags at the hotel, wandered over to get my first look at Adobe’s pop-up shop called Photoshop & You. I saw the photos that Scott Kelby had up on his blog but you really have to experience it in person to get the [...]