June 27, 2007
If you haven’t fired up Adobe Photoshop Lightroom yet today, you might want to. Version 1.1 is now available for download. For more info on the new features read Jarrod’s post about the sneak peak of 1.1 given at Scott Kelby’s Seminar. Check it out!
Dennis
DZ Photography
May 22, 2007
Scott Kelby’s new Lightroom Seminar had Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) as a guest. He showed the audience some new features that will be coming in the upgrade.
Here is what Scott Kelby had to say:
“Here’s a quick rundown of what Tom showed the crowd:
He showed how you can now easily export one library of photos (now called “catalogs”) and import that catalog into an existing library (perfect for people who work on a laptop on location, then need to merge these photos with their desktop studio machine).
The “Keyword Stamper” has evolved into a much more useful tool, which now lets “Spray” (rather than individually stamping, so it’s much faster), anything from keywords to Develop settings, or rotation settings. This totally wow’d everybody when they saw it in action.
Version 1.1 brings order to your presets and templates as these sections now have folders, so you can easily separate your custom presets and imported presets and templates from the default sets.
But the big, big hit of his presentation was definitely the new Sharpening panel, which pretty much blew everybody away, especially when used with the new Clarity control. This brought cheers from the crowd, which were only matched by Tom’s announcement that Adobe was making this update available for free!!! (we don’t have an official release date, other than “it’s coming soon). “
Credit: (Kelby, Scott http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/)
So as you can see we are all in for a great treat when the upgrade is released. Oh, and the upgrade is FREE… so that’s going to be great.
Read the full story on Scott Kelby’s Blog.
Read more about the Lightroom Seminar here.
Until Next Time,
Jarrod Michael
May 8, 2007
Try saying that three times fast! Just when you thought your list of presets in Photoshop Lightroom couldn’t get any longer, along comes this post. I found this newest link in the feedback section on Lightroom Killer Tips. The site is called Inside Lightroom. It is loaded with useful presets that are neatly categorized by the different effects. A feature of this site that I really like is how they show examples of what the preset looks like on both a landscape and a portrait image. One of my favorites is located in the “Colour Effects” sections called “300.” As you may have guessed, it mimics the visual effects of the movie 300. Perfect for those tough guy seniors.
Tying this into Gavin’s main topic of this week, there is also a section of presets called “High Dynamic Range Effects” What these do is let you apply seven different presets to the same image to make it look like you took seven different exposures ranging from underexposed to overexposed and everything in between. I haven’t tried these yet but I would think you would get better results from actually taking three different images vs simulating multiple shots. If anyone out there does give these HDR presets a try, please leave a comment to this post with your results or feedback. Enjoy!
Dennis
[tags]hdr, high, dynamic, range, photography, lightroom, presets[/tags] DZ Photography
April 25, 2007
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM
The days are counting down until Lightroom increases in price from $199 to $299. You have until the end of April to buy your copy for the lower price. You can find Lightroom here.
Adobe has just introduced a Lightroom Getting Started Guide. This guide is FREE and available for download.
Until Next Time,
Jarrod Michael
April 11, 2007
I know we are all excited to hear the new announcements from Adobe. I’m very excited for Photoshop CS3. However, let’s not forget about the other REALLY AMAZING program for us photographers, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I received my copy of Lightroom about two weeks ago and I have to say it’s everything the critics are saying and more. From the organization of your photos to the web gallery options, Lightroom really is the workflow solution I’ve been looking for, and I’m sure you have been looking for it as well.
But what would new software be without training. Yes, we all learned something from the “playing around method.” However, if you are like me, and need some formal training here are some resources I used for training.
NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals): First, if you don’t know about this site / association and you are a Photoshop user you are missing out on one of the most powerful tools we can have as Photoshop users today. Not only are they the “ Everything for Photoshop Training Site” but also they have started a Lightroom Learning Center. The Learning Center contains training and tips that are really hard to pick up by “playing around” with the program. It also contains a list of the hottest features as per Scott Kelby. Now some of the Learning Center areas are free but to get the full experience you have to be a NAPP member for $99 a year, which gets you a huge amount of benefits. NAPP has also started a Lightroom Killer Tips Podcast which can be found at www.lightroomkillertips.com .
Lynda.com, www.lynda.com: For those of you who may not know, Lynda.com is training site for almost every professional computer program out there today. And yes they have a basic training course for Lightroom. Like all their courses, the Lightroom course is broken down into small 2-10 minute videos that I can view when I want therefore allowing me to learn at my own pace. You can pay $25 per month or $250 per year to unlock EVERY training video they have in their library. So if you only want to learn Lightroom, pay the $25 watch the videos, then cancel your membership. Learn what you need to when you need to.
UPDATE: Thanks to another PPS Author Dennis for pointing this out. Lynda.com offers a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL. This is amazing!!!! I would highly suggest taking advantage of this so very nice deal.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers: This JUST started shipping the other day so I don’t have a review of it. But, it’s written by Scott Kelby. He is an amazing author and Photoshop instructor. So I basically guarantee that this book is going to be a great reference for Lightroom. You can pick it up anywhere books are sold for about $39.
Well I hope you all learn everything you can about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It really is an amazing program. I’m sure we will be posting new tips with Lightroom.
Lightroom is available for a Free 30-day trial. So download it today and start having fun with it.
Until Next Time;
Jarrod Michael
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