Quick Image Prep in Lightroom

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I use a lot of images in my blog.  To save time in preparing them for upload I use a great little feature in Lightroom called Export.  I know, it doesn’t sound very sexy but the time it saves me means I can spend more time typing and less time resizing, changing color spaces, and [...]

Anatomy of a Lightroom Beta 2 Image Correction

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Yesterday I finished off my post with a couple of HDR images.  Today I want to run down exactly what I did to one of those images, post-tonemapping.  The image was tonemapped using Photomatix Pro 3.0.  For those that aren’t familiar with tonemapping, it is a process that is used to take a 32-bit High [...]

Lightroom 2.0 Goes to the End of the Earth

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During the keynote speech last week by Adobe’s John Loiacono, Johhny L made a live link with a crew of internationally renowned photographers down in Tasmania that have gathered for a live test-run of the new Lightroom 2.0 Beta.  During the shoot, the photographers will be shooting, uploading, sorting, and adjusting their images.  As a [...]

Inserting a Link-Back in your Lightroom Galleries

I received an email from one of my readers who had been looking at my online galleries. All of my galleries are created in Lightroom and he wanted to know how I put the Back to Gallery link on my pages instead of the standard email address. So here is exactly how you can accomplish [...]

Lightroom Gallery change for the better

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Lightroom is a great program.  You can find discussions all across the web about the power of the program and how beneficial it is for photographers.  To get a taste, check out Matt Kloskowski’s great Lightroom Killer Tips blog.  One of the things that immediately drew me to Lightroom was its ability to take my [...]