March 9, 2008
The good guys over at LR News found this little gem and we wanted to pass it along.
It’s a pdf E-book with lightroom tips put out by the Image Space blog. It’s nicely done with a lot of good tips, and the best part… IT’S FREE.
If you want to sharpen your LR knowledge a bit this is a good way to it.
March 8, 2008
Theres a never ending debate about which is better or more practical. Though many pro’s shoot in RAW there are also a lot of great JPEG shooters.
I want a quick easy workflow no matter what I’m editing. The problem with presets, is that a preset made for RAW (and most are) will work lousy on a JPEG file. Most of the time this is not even addressed when presets are given away or sold, so a user may find presets that work lousy and not know why.
Today we want to plug our sister site Seim Effects. They’ve been selling photographers Lightroom presets to speed up their RAW workflow. Today marked the launch of the latest Power Workflow set that’s entirely RAW & JPEG compatible. This requires two completely different sets that are each modified for the file format their to be used with.
The good news is they both come in the collection so now whether you shoot RAW or JPEG you can have great presets, and speedy workflow.
March 7, 2008
Well it’s finally here. Power Workflow 1.7, with full RAW & JPEG compatibility.
This was a bug project, but I’m so glad I did it. Many presets will simply not work properly on JPEG files, and there are many JPEG shooters out there. Well with the new version there’s a complete set of presets for both!
There’s also some other cool enhancements in version 1.7, and I’m really excited about the new Power Workflow. It’s making the Lightroom workflow amazing, and saving us hours upon hours off our editing time.
If you already own them you should have an update email in your inbox, and if not you can get them in the store right now for under 30- bucks.
March 2, 2008
Power Workflow 1.7 with full RAW & JPEG support is coming.
I know there’s a number of you waiting for it, and those of you that have emailed me have been added to the notification list.
It’s turned out to be quite a tedious project. Each and every preset had to be applied to a JPEG file, and then totally revamped to correct for the differenced in JPEG files.
The whole project is taking a bit longer that I had originally planned but I’m about 75% done. They will be here soon!
February 26, 2008
Update…
Cnet Reporter Stephen Shankland Contacted PPS (as well as left a comment) in regards to the poll. He says the the poll is absolutely not gamed, and that Apple in no way dictates his reporting.“the poll is not faked or some church-and-state-violating, undisclosed advertising scheme that Apple or CNET cooked up. Also, I’d note that online polls shouldn’t be trusted to be a statistically valid representation of “approval rating” or some other form of market or public preference. Finally, our software blocks multiple votes from the same IP address”
Stephen feel that the poll probably just got voted on a lot by Apple fans, and naturally once Apple linked to it the apple fans would be all over it. I can say that I myself get a lot of info from Cnet, and have never felt their reporters have a lack of journalistic integrity. It’s good to see their proactive about responding to this rumor.As to which one is actually better. I’ll leave that up to you!
Theres been quite a bit of attention given to a poll over on Cnet that claims Apertures approval rating is around 65% while Lightroom only has about 36% Apple was so happy about this that they were actually bragging about the poll results on their site.
Now we think Cnet is usually pretty good about these things, but it really looks like this poll may be at least woefully wrong.
We’re not here to put down a poll simply because Aperture is winning. The poll percentages however don’t change more than a tiny fraction over time, even though the number of votes does. Mainly however we know there are FAR more LR users than Aperture users and these poll results make no sense with what we see in the industry. Apple is bragging about these results likes it’s a victory, but what we see in the poll just doesn’t jive with what we see in the real world. You can also see this LR news article for more info.
Something defiantly seems bogus here. We’ll keep our eye on this and see where it goes. Could Apple be so desperate that their getting Cnet to skew polls just to get noticed? Is there an error? Or is this actually be accurate? We’ve added our own Lightroom vs Aperture poll below. We’ll see what comes of it.
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