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33 minutes ago

Magic or Laplacian Filters

Tom Hogarty is appropriately singing the praises of the Camera Raw team that brought us Process Version 2012 in Lightroom 4 Beta. If you've not tried it in Lightroom 4, you're really missing out as the detail recovery is amazing, and can be quite HDR like if pushed to extreme (and if you dislike surreal HDR-don't push it so much!).  The techniques behind how the Process Version works are [...]

1 week ago

Focus On Imaging 2012

Focus On Imaging is the UK's largest tradeshow and runs from 4th - 7th March in the NEC in Birmingham. As usual I'll be on the Phototraining4U stand (Q20) giving a series of short talks on Lightroom, Photoshop and Landscapes. My speaking timetable looks like this:  Sunday 4th March 2012 11.00 - 11.15 – Sean McCormack - Lightroom 4 Beta Intro 13.30 – 13.45 – Sean McCormack - [...]

2 weeks ago

Lightroom Interview: Kevin Tieskoetter

Recently I got to pose some questions to long time Adobe Engineer Kevin Tieskoetter about his role on the Lightroom team and his work on the Book Module in Lightroom 4 Beta. Kevin was gracious enough to take time out and answer them. Hi Kevin, thanks for taking my questions. You been working on Lightroom for a very long time. So what have you been up to in that time? I've been working on [...]

1 month ago

LR4 free presets: Faded series

Hey folks, with Lightroom 4 Beta's new RGB curves, I've knocked out some free presets for you: Faded Yellow, to give an old time look. Faded Yellow & Cyan, to give a lightly cross processed look Faded XProcess Velvia to give a similar (but milder) look to cross processing Velvia film.  Download them here. To install, right click on a preset in Develop and choose 'Import..'. Navigate to [...]

1 month ago

LRBPlugins.com announces Lightroom 4 related updates

I've been busy with updates today, so here's the formal announcements, with videos etc.  LRB Grads Update for Lightroom 4 Beta LRB Exhibition 1.3 launched with new features including Lightroom 4 compatibility.  I'll be looking into LRB Portfolio in the coming days. Preset Pack Vol 1. requires a lot of work to get matching exact, or even close in Process Version 2012.    [...]

1 month ago

Using Sync for Video in Develop

In her wonderful series of videos on Lightroom 4 Beta over at Adobe TV, Julieanne Kost talks about using presets to copy settings from a Jpeg to a Video. Here I show how to do it directly in Develop, even though 'Video is not supported in Develop'. Make sure you watch in HD and full screen for best results.    [...]

1 month ago

Lightroom 4 Beta Resources

As always, there's a host of gurus posting stuff for Lightroom 4.  Ladies First: Julianne Kost on Adobe TV: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-beta/introduction-to-lightroom-4-beta/ The Lightroom Queen, Victoria Bamptom has her say: http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2012/01/09/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-0-beta/ Ellie Kennard from Prodig: http://bit.ly/wNv0Ps Stephen [...]

1 month ago

Lightroom 4 Beta

On the 6th Anniversary of the very first Public Beta of Lightroom, Adobe have announced the availability of Lightroom 4 Beta. Being a full version update this means loads of new features. Some are immediately obvious, and some not at all.  Features. This is not intended to be a definitive list of new features, but certainly covers the majors ones. On looking at the Module picker, you'll [...]

1 month ago

Happy Anniversary Lightroom

  6 years ago today, the first Public Preveiw of Lightroom was launched. I downloaded it the next day.. well it was probably still the 9th in the US when I downloaded it! Anyway it's changed my life and not a day goes by that I'm not doing something in it. The image above shows what last public beta before launch looked like. Similar UI, but stuff in different places.  Anyway, I can [...]

1 month ago

Lightroom Solutions

There's a small handful of people with Lightroom sites that I'd recommend. There's an even small handful of people with those sites that I know in person. So when one of those friends creates a new site for Lightroom, it is something worth shouting about.  I've linked to John Beardsworths blog numerous times, but now he's bringing the weight of his expertise into a dedicated Lightroom site; [...]

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