Sean McCormack (Lightroom Blog)

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Posts from December 2010

1 year ago

5 Myths About Lightroom

While Lightroom is quite a nifty program, not everything people think about Lightroom is true! Here's some myths I see cropping up. Myth #1: Lightroom can backup everything. Er... No. Lightroom does have a backup routine that can run daily, weekly, monthly, or on next start. All it backs up is the currently opened catalog, nothing else. No photos, no settings or even preferences. If you want your [...]

1 year ago

Email your Seasons Greetings

Regular Lightroom Blog readers will have notice a major change to the decor. We're now part of Pixiq, so feel free to look around and see the wonderful cornucopia of photographers here on the site.  Seasons Greetings to all. I'm sure you'll all be shooting loads of present unwrapping and general cheer. For off camera flash users, be sure to look at Strobist's Christmas Guide. When you get the [...]

1 year ago

Free Preset: HeadofRed

Earlier today on Twitter (@lightroomblog if you want to follow), I mentioned that clients can really love over the top processing. It’s the same phenomena as HDR, where the public loves the surreal images over the subtle ones. Of course photographers can hate the very same look! Anyhow I showe [...]

1 year ago

£99 Phototraining4U deal

Hey folks, Phototraining4U changed to a new streaming server over the weekend, and I have to say, I’m really impressed with it. Anyhow, with the changeover, they’ve decided to run the £99 members deal to the public. Use the code ANGEL to get a one year deal for only £99 instead of £19 [...]

1 year ago

Link Love

Jeffrey Friedl has a new Plugin (JPEG Export Quality Tester) that creates an export at Lightroom 13 available quality settings, along with a TIFF file, to judge the best compromise of Quality and Size. Tim Armes has updated his Impact WSPP Gallery. @Lightroom on Twitter linked to a Terry White [...]

1 year ago

PicWorkflow

If you’re a Lightroom user that submits to Microstock, then the picWorkflow plugin might be up your street. This plugin exports to the picWorkflow service and then onto 19 Microstock agencies. It’s a pay as you go service that allows you to manage all of these accounts in one place. As I [...]

1 year ago

Lightroom 3.3 and Camera Raw 6.3 now available

Earlier this morning (or late last night in the US), Lightroom 3.3 final was announced, along with Camera Raw 6.3, on Lightroom Journal (the official Adobe blog for Lightroom) by Tom Hogarty. Both are available via the in program updater in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5. You can also download them dir [...]

1 year ago

B&W video over at ProPhotoResource

Hey folks, as part of the Street Photography special over on ProPhotoResource, I did a video on B&W conversion in Lightroom. Go check it out. [...]

1 year ago

Preset: Sepia High Contrast

Free Preset: Sepia Hey folks, it’s been ages since I gave out a preset. One of the examples of Split Toning I did on my recent tour with Mark Cleghorn was of Sepia toning. So here’s a basic preset that’ll give you a highish contrast Sepia toned image. It’s a subtle rich tone [...]

1 year ago

Tour Tour Tour: Part Two

We had breakfast early in Stockport, but in truth I didn’t sleep well. That’s nothing new, I really hate hotel pillows. Why? Well at home I have feather pillows. I blame my mum, I’ve used them all my life! Hotels tend to have foam based pillows that I hate.. I just can’t get [...]

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