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Posts from January 2011

1 year ago

Lightroom Delete

Deleting images might seem like a straightforward thing to do. If you're sitting in a Folder in Lightroom then hitting the Delete key should do just that, shouldn't it? Well kinda.  If you hit Delete in a Folder you'll be presented with a dialog that gives you 3 options: Delete from Disk, Cancel or Remove. Guess which one it the default? Yep, not Delete. It's Remove, which removes the file [...]

1 year ago

Warm, touching warm

Hey folks, it's that time of the month again, so here they are: 2 Presets to warm your images. Rather than go with using the White Balance, I've used the Split Toning panel to create these, so they literally only add a Split Toning change, leaving the rest of your settings untouched. There's 2 different intensity levels. To install right click on a preset  the Presets and choose 'Import', [...]

1 year ago

Lightroom Link Love

Here's a little Lightroom Link Love for this month: LR Secrets got a facelift this month. Lightroom Tuesday is a great link feature from former Lightroom engineer Wade Heninger. Matt Kloskowski made a video installing Lightroom Presets over on Lightroom Killer Tips. Tim Armes has been busy with his new plugins over at Photographers Toolbox. You can also find plugins from John Beardsworth [...]

1 year ago

The Tech of Large Catalogs

There's always speculation about how big a Lightroom catalog can be, but there's nothing like the words of the Engineer that works on Catalogs in Lightroom about it. Earlier on LinkedIn, Lightroom Engineer Dan Tull had some words on the matter: "There are definitely costs associated with larger catalogs. Various kinds of queries will slow down somewhat. However, probably the most significant cost [...]

1 year ago

Slideshow: Combine multiple MP3s for Lightroom

Here's a video on using Audacity to combine MP3 files to make a longer MP3 for use with Lightroom 3 slideshow. Audacity is cross platform and free to download from http://audacity.sourceforge.net. If you've questions or comments, please feel free to add them below. Please note the video was exported as 1080HD video, so choose the highest quality your computer can handle (some older machines cannot [...]

1 year ago

Light Compressor: 99 cent HDR App for Your Mac!

I've spoken in the past about my love for Filterstorm as my main photo editing app on the iPad. Well tomorrow, when the new Mac App store opens, Filterstorm's developer Tai Shimizu has a new Mac app going live. It's called Light Compressor and will retail for an astounding $0.99. That's right, less than a dollar for simple painless HDR.    The initial version 1.0, doesn't accept input [...]

1 year ago

LRB Plugins

With the move to Pixiq, the secondary use of Lightroom Blog essentially became invisible. To over come their back burner nature, these Lightroom Addons now have their own website: LRBPlugins.com.  Featuring a broad range of extensions like Website creators, Metadata Plugins and Presets, many of them free, this also allows things like featured galleries and better user interaction on the [...]

1 year ago

How to make a 2011 Metadata Preset

Hey folks, 2011 is now on us and it's the perfect time to create a new Metadata Preset so your copyright information is up to date in Lightroom! Make sure you view full screen at 720 for best quality!  [...]

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