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Social Networking Advice for Digital Photographers

A student in this week’s Lightroom for Photographers Workshop at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography asked for advice on social networking for photographers. Here is a short list of books and references that I have found useful in my understanding of this new emerging way of advertising your business. Helpful Websites: Seth Godin New [...]

Aerial Infrared Photography From GravityShots.Com

I lent my infrared camera to my good friends Jeff and Adele Scholl earlier this week. Jeff and Adele run a low-angle aerial photography company which uses remote controlled helicopters. Here’s a sampling of what they did with their helicopters and my infrared camera!

Book Review – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: The Missing FAQ by Victoria Bampton

Adobe Lightroom 3 – The Missing FAQ eBook from Victoria Bampton, aka “The Lightroom Queen,” is now available for purchase. This book is full of helpful advice and answers to questions you’ll inevitably ask about Lightroom 3.

Lightroom Preset Sharing at Presetpond.com

Presetpond is a new online community for photographers enabling them to share preset files for the two popular photo-editing applications Aperture® produced by Apple Inc, and Lightroom® produced by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 for Photographers Workshop with David Marx: Oct 31 – Nov 5

David Marx will be leading a week long Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 workshop for Photographers at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana from October 31 to November 5. This class will be David’s last week long Lightroom workshop for the year. Don’t miss this opportunity to streamline your workflow and master Lightroom this fall.

Using Add to Import Files into Your Lightroom Index Without Moving or Copying

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is designed to index a lifetime’s worth of digital photography. Lightroom creates a database which acts likes a library’s “card catalog.” Thanks to the index, it is easy for a professional photographer to find one specific image out of the thousands that are stored on their computer in seconds.

Book Review: Quite a Sightly Place: A Family Dairy Farm in Vermont

A Vermont Dairy Farm?!? What? Why is this book in here? Though the title may lead you astray, this is one of the funniest and most interesting reads I’ve come across in a while.

Importing and Moving Files From Your Internal Hard Drive to an External Disk with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Two new video tutorials today for beginning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom users on how to import and move files from one hard drive to another using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. These videos are intended to help new Lightroom users find their photos, or the folders full of images, that currently live on their internal hard drive. Most beginning users need the extra help with this process and its great to know that Lightroom can do all of the heavy lifting.

Importing Images: Creating an Import Preset and Copying in Files from a Digital Camera Memory Card with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Ingesting new images from a digital camera memory card is a repetitive task that a professional photographer will repeat hundreds of times per year. This process just got a whole lot easier thanks to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3′s new Import Preset feature. In this article, and video tutorial, we explain how to simplify your life by building an Import Preset.

Book Release – Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process

I just wanted to take a moment to announce the pending release of a new reference book for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process by Nat Coalson is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Getting Started Right: Building Better File Names with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

My digital camera takes great pictures but it gives them lousy filenames. This is a big problem because the file’s name is a really important detail for a professional photographer. Unique filenames make it easy to communicate with clients and they prevent confusion. Sadly, most digital cameras cannot create unique filenames.

Since I cannot teach my camera to name my file’s the right way I must solve this problem when I add files into my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 index. Lightroom makes generating unique filenames easy once you understand how to create a File Naming Template.

Getting Started Right: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3′s Critical Preference Menus

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is finally here and it is a great to get started the right way with this powerful software! Lightroom is not a hard program to figure out on your own, but there are some critical switches buried deep inside its preference menus. Preference menus are dull material in any program, but a wise man looks the under the hood before buying a used car.

Advice on Buying Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Life is all about choices and software purchasing is no different. To get your copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, you could buy the product directly from Adobe, you could purchase the software from an online retailer, or you could pick up a copy at your local computer box store. So does your choice make any difference?

Lightroom 3 Now Available!

It’s been a long wait but the third version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is finally shipping! We at the LightroomLab have been playing with the private beta of Lightroom 3 all winter long and we are delighted that now everyone can work with this wonderful new product. Above all else, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is going to make your photos look better!

Getting Started: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 View Options Menu and Library View Toolbar Customization

I released a whole bunch of tutorials recently on crucial parts of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 setup process. The videos in this post are not nearly as important as the ones on building your catalog on an external hard drive or the ones on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Preferences Menus. Still, setting the View Options Menu up right and customizing the Library Module’s Tool Bar is a big help when you are new to the program.

Amazon Prime: Is It Worth It?

Do you frequent Amazon.com? If so have you considered an Amazon Prime membership? Thanks to Amazon Prime, it is often cheaper and easier for me to have supplies delivered then it is to drive all across this big state looking for photography / computer equipment. If you are already a frequent Amazon customer, or if you live way out in the country like I do, check this service out.

What’s New in CS5: A Series of Ten Enlightening Video Tutorials

Join Photoshop luminary Mark S. Johnson from May 13 through May 22 as he introduces Photoshop CS5′s most interesting and useful new features.

What Software Should I Add to A New Mac For Photography

We photographers need to buy some additional software to get a brand new Mac up and running. This article is about the software that I think a new Apple computer needs for professional-grade digital imaging, word-processing, and everyday use. Click here to read more….

Adobe Photoshop CS5 New Feature Highlights for Photographers Part I

Adobe Photoshop CS5 is out now and many of our readers would like to know which features of the new version are going to be useful for photographers. Top’s on my list of highlights though has got to be the new processing algorithms in Adobe Camera Raw 6. With the new code inside of Camera Raw, and soon in Lightroom 3, my images look better than they ever have before….

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available!

Adobe Creative Suite 5, and all its parts including Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, are now available. Adobe is even offering free shipping on Adobe CS5 Suites and on Photoshop for a limited time. Read on for more details.

Lightroom 3 Lens Correction Sneak Peak

Adobe Project manager Tom Hogarty recently released this video which shows off the fantastic new Lens Corrections tool that will ship with Adobe Camera Raw 6 and Lightroom 3. I have been messing around with this feature in the private Lightroom 3 beta for a few weeks and I am amazed at how much better some of my old photos look. Check it out!

My Camera Equipment: Digital SLR Advice from David Marx 2010

This article is all about the photography equipment that I use professionally. Among photographers there is no easier conversation starter then the question “what camera do you use?” For some reason, we photographers are obsessed with our camera bodies. I currently own two Canon bodies. Click here to read more about what I use and what photographic equipment I recommend.

Lightroom 2.7 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.7 Now Available

The free update to Lightroom 2, version 2.7, is now available from Adobe. To install the update, go to your Help menu in Lightroom and choose Check for Updates…

Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro: The Ultimate Guide

The 17-inch MacBook Pro is a great desktop replacement. When I see a 17-inch model after staring for hours at my 15-inch Mac, I feel like I’m watching a movie in a theatre! I kid, of course, but the 17-inch display is strikingly large for a laptop. That large display comes at a price, of course. Weight. A full pound (0.45 kg) heavier than the 15-inch MacBook Pro, the 17-inch model also calls for a non-standard carrying case in most circumstances.

Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro: The Ultimate Guide

The 15-inch MacBook Pro is my pick for the perfect computer. It’s the computer that I personally use 95% of the time. It’s robust, easy-to-carry, fast, and a bit sexy.