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Importing Photos From Lightroom 2 into Lightroom 3 Beta

January 7th, 2010

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Guest Post by Rob Sylvan – Follow Lightroomers on Twitter
I’m sure you’ve heard, but in case you haven’t, Adobe has released a free public Beta version of Lightroom 3 for the purpose of getting public feedback on new functionality/features. Yo…

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Policies and Procedures: Naming Conventions

December 30th, 2009

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In my last post, I talked about the importance of writing down your policies and procedures. Today I want to share with you an aspect of ours as it relates to the naming conventions we use for project files. Below is an excerpt from the 8-page wedding …

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Fixing underexposed images in Photoshop – Mark (Digital Photo Buzz)

December 13th, 2009

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Even though we all try and get the exposure perfect in camera, from time to time things happen and exposure is off. It might be one shot out of a bunch that has the perfect expression but was under or over exposed and you have to fix it. Even though …

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Vignettes – Lighten or Darken?

December 11th, 2009

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When adding vignettes to your images or correcting accidental ones, you have two options: lighten or darken. Darkening the edges of your photos can add a deep, dark, vintage or even macabre quality and feel to your image and you might not even entertai…

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Q and A: Raw capture mode is confusing. Can you help?

December 11th, 2009

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I need some advice about using RAW capture mode. I have just started shooting in RAW mode but after some research on the Internet, I still have some questions about RAW. Why won’t Photoshop CS3 or Elements 7 open and convert the RAW files fr…

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How to Create Quick and Easy Web Slideshows with Lightroom

December 10th, 2009

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One of the really handy features of Lightroom is its ability to create web slideshows quickly and easily. There are various options you can use and I’ll show you how to use the SimpleViewer slideshow which is good looking and very functional.
Step …

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10 + 10 + 3 = Great Lightroom tips…

December 8th, 2009

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Recently Scott Bourne wrote his “10 Things I Wish I Could Tell Every New Lightroom User”.

Scott Kelby followed with his own 10 tips list, then it was Matt Kloskowski’s turn with “Scott’s top 10 (+3 of my own)”.

Even if you are not new to Lightroom yo…

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Adobe Lightroom Beta 3

October 22nd, 2009

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Lightroom 3 here we come. Great new features including one of the most desired features…a better Watermarking tool!

Brand new performance architecture
State-of-the-art noise …

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Coming in Photoshop CS5

October 20th, 2009

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Adobe posted this video on YouTube as a preview of what they’re working on in Photoshop CS5. A taste of what’s to come….

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How to Create Lightroom Presets

October 9th, 2009

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One of the cool things about Lightroom is its ability to store develop settings as Presets so you can use them again later to edit other images.

In addition to creating and saving your own presets, you can also download …

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