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Great Deals on Lightroom v2 Today at Amazon

Great Deals on Lightroom v2 Today at Amazon

Happy Cyber Monday! There are great deals today on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v2 at Amazon.com.

Black Friday Specials from Amazon, B&H, Acronis, etc.

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John Beardsworth on “10 Things I Wish I Could Tell a Slightly Less Novice Lightroom User”

Today, I came across a post from Lightroom expert John Beardsworth entitled “10 Things I Wish I Could Tell a Slightly Less New Lightroom User.” I believe that this article is worth your time. I am especially pleased with Mr. Beardsworth second point: “Unless you really know what you’re doing, never use Explorer or Finder for moving or renaming files that are catalogued in Lightroom” since I recorded a tutorial on this very topic just a few months ago. For more information read on…

Lightroom 2.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 Release Candidates Available

Adobe has posted the release candidate versions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 on the Adobe Labs website. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that these updates are well-tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers.

Read on for more information about these releases, as well as links to download.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta Help Now Online

Adobe posted a new website today to support the Lightroom 3 beta release. Scott and I are already signed up as moderators for the new site and are looking forward to helping folks learn Lightroom v3.
Here’s a link to the new Adobe Lightroom 3 beta help site.

DpBestflow.org from the ASMP: Worth your Time

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) just released a guidebook–actually it is a multimedia website–that covers the best practices in every aspect of digital imaging technology! I am confident that the time you spend on the dpBestflow.org site will be time well spen

Scott Kelby’s “10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users”

Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, posted an article recently that might help Lightroom beginners. If you are new to Lightroom, I encourage you to read his “10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users” in addition to browsing all of the articles in our Getting Started Tutorials section.

I don’t agree with all ten, though. Read on to find out where I disagree.

What those Social Networking Terms of Service Agreements Mean for Photographers

Attorney Christopher J. Reese has just released his examination of the legalese in those Terms of Service Agreements that we all sign to use Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, and YouTube for the American Society of Media Photographers. I think that the results of his investigation will be of great interest to all of us digital photographers who share our work through any variety of social media services.

Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta Now Available!

Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta Now Available!

Want to see what’s coming in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v.3? Now you can! Check out this post to learn more about Lightroom v.3 beta’s new features and improvements.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta Now Available

Adobe has announced the availability of the beta version of Lightroom 3!

Teaching Lightroom at the "Explore the Possibilities Seminar" Nov. 6-8 in Cleveland Ohio!

Teaching Lightroom at the “Explore the Possibilities Seminar” Nov. 6-8 in Cleveland Ohio!

am delighted to be teaching Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop Elements techniques for the Western Reserve Photographic Society’s “Explore the Possibilities Seminar” in Cleveland, Ohio. For this program, I will be working along side my good friend and photographic hero Mr. Doug Johnson. For more information on this program….

The LR2/Mogrify Plugin has been Updated

Timothy Armes has just released a new version of his wonderful LR2/Mogrify export plugin. Amongst the new features is a “canvas” option that allows users to place the resized image within a fixed area and the ability to use multiple watermarks on a single image.

Links for my “Business of Photography and the Web” now available

Every year, I give a lecture for the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s Advanced Intensive students on the business of photography and the internet. Every year, I find amazing new websites that fill in some gap in the capture to client to the bank chain. If you are interested in the sites from this year’s lecture please follow this link.

Lightroom 2.5 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 Available

Lightroom 2.5 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 Available

The free update to Lightroom 2, version 2.5, is now available from Adobe. To install the update, go to your Help menu in Lightroom and choose Check for Updates…

Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements Coupon Code

If you’re using Lightroom and want Adobe Photoshop Elements to supplement your workflow. Use Elements to make more localized corrections to images with layers and masks, combine images into panoramas, and more!

You can also get Adobe Premier Elements to start using that video function on your DSLR!

Click here for the links and coupon codes!