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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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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…
Kevin Ames Demonstration of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta and Photoshop CS5 in Kalispell Montana: April 21
Photoshop expert Kevin Ames will be presenting a demonstration of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v3 Beta and Photoshop CS5 in Kalispell, Montana next week. Kevin is the author of four books on digital photography, a frequent Photoshop World Instructor, and an expert at retouching glamour photos. Even better, this lecture is free and open to the public!
Lightroom 2.7 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.7 Release Candidates Available
Adobe has posted the release candidate versions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.7 and Camera Raw 5.7 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.
Apple Updates Snow Leopard to 10.6.3
Today Apple released a free update to their Snow Leopard Operating System (OS X 10.6.3). This is a general operating system update that offers some bug fixes and performance fixes in a variety of locations.
Get the update by running Software Update from the Apple () menu.
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch Event
Adobe announced that you can get your “first look at CS5″ on Monday, April 12, 2010.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Now Available
Adobe has announced the public release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta 2. This is a follow-up to to the initial beta release back in late October 2009.
The software is available for download at Adobe Labs.
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!
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!
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
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!
Optimizing Lightroom for Best Performance: Top Ten Lightroom Speed Tips
It’s hard to argue that using Lightroom to manage and edit large collections of images is much faster than “the old way,” but we’re always looking for that way to squeeze out just a little more speed.
Here are my top ten tips for optimizing Lightroom for speed.
Keywording and Tagging in Lightroom
It’s not hard to get a lot of photos in Lightroom … and I do mean a LOT of photos. Ten-thousand, twenty-thousand, one hundred-thousand. I’ve seen some pretty big catalogs. What do you do when you need to find one of those images?
More Lightroom Help
There are many places other than TheLightroomLab.com where you can find help with Lightroom. Check out this article for some of my favorites…then share your favorites with us!
