Lightroom 2.2 – what really matters?

Posted by Eric Leszkowicz on Dec 16, 2008 in Blog, Lightroom | 1 comment

What really matters to the day to day user when it comes to the new Lightroom? But before we get to that, here is the official release notes from Adobe (full article).

Camera support for the following models:

• Canon EOS 5D Mark II
• Canon PowerShot G10
• Panasonic DMC-G1
• Panasonic DMC-FX150
• Panasonic DMC-FZ28
• Panasonic DMC-LX3
• Leica D-LUX 4

• Turning auto-mask on produced a lag in Lightroom performance in when applying the adjustment brush

I had just assumed that there was supposed to be a huge lag when you did this  Nice fix.

• Lightroom could become unresponsive when using the graduated filter under certain conditions.

I had it become unresponsive in a variety of conditions, but this one was likely only one scenario. I am going to pay attention next time it goes unresponsive.  It might be the program and not my computer.

The Big Kahuna

The greatest add onto the program is in the camera profiles. The addition of this allows us to make finer and finer tweaks to how Lightroom handles our RAW files.  You can make and save your own profiles or use the ones provided.

To find them go to the develop module and all the way down on the bottom of the right hand side is the new tool.

Enjoy.

Watermarking in Lightroom

Posted by Eric Leszkowicz on Nov 19, 2008 in Blog, Lightroom | 3 comments

Fellow geeks rejoice.

OK, at least for us photographers, watermarking is a part of everyday life.  The problem is that it is not an easy process.  Opening files and running actions, droplets, shortcuts and who knows what else on images all the while being frustrated and tearing our hair out.

What solutions exist that could make watermarking a touch easier? Lightroom has already simplified my life greatly and now it can do more.

There are two options that I know of:

Option1

Matt Kloskowski just posted a video on his blog that shows how to make lightroom slideshow do what it wasn’t intended to do. You can see that video here on his Lightroom Killer Tips website.

Option 2

Download a donation-ware plugin that Timothy Ames has created.  This is a plugin for Lightroom that allows you to apply the copyright information upon export.

My opinion.  Matt’s version of copyrighting is a bit easier to execute in the sense that all you need it Lightroom and Photoshop, but the Mogrify plugin is nothing short of amazing.  You can do so many tweaks to how it works. What do you do to watermark images?  Post your comments below.

UPDATE: Seeing LR3 beta 2 in action, the watermarking feature is far superiour to this method.  I suggest abandoning this method as soon as LR3 is available.

Loading Presets in Lightroom

Posted by Eric Leszkowicz on Nov 13, 2008 in Blog, Presets | 0 comments

Sometimes people as about presets in Lightroom.

Presets are the “actions” of the Lightroom world.  They don’t work exactly like actions, but they are very close.  As you get to know and love presets, you will want more.   One way is to create them and another way is to buy them.

If you buy presets, inevitably the question is “how do I load them?”  This quick video tutorial will show you how to load your presets that you have downloaded.  It is also handy if you have lightroom installed on more than one computer.

Check out the Video Below.

Lightroom 101 – Why I use it.

Posted by Eric Leszkowicz on Oct 31, 2008 in Blog, Lightroom | 0 comments

Adobe Lightroom has transformed how I do things in my business.  As a portrait photographer, I have to go through thousands of images a year.  Just think if I work on 40,000 images a year and I save one second per image, I just saved 11 hours.

Amazing.

Lightroom helps me do it.  Register for a seminar today.

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