March 16th, 2010
Since late February when the trial version of Aperture 3 was released I’ve been using Aperture 3 a lot. I have to say that I am both dazzled by its’ brilliance and outraged by the sluggish performance and crashing.
On the positive side, the brushes feature in Aperture 3 is my favorite feature. I may upgrade [...]
February 21st, 2010
Apple’s recent release of Aperture 3.0 highlight’s the fact that photographers that are Mac users are faced with a choice of do they use Adobe Lightroom or Aperture for digital asset and workflow management.
I want to disclose right up front that I am a Mac user and I use Lightroom extensively and Aperture only occasionally. [...]
November 4th, 2009
Several recent questions and comments from readers made me realize that the posts I have on PTLens are several years old. Ever since I’ve been doing this blog I’ve been recommending PTLens as an alternative for fixing verticals and barrel distortion but as of the summer of 2008 Tom Niemann released a version of PTLens [...]
November 2nd, 2009
For the last couple of days I’ve been digging through the new features in the Lightroom 3 Beta. All I can say is Wow! There area a bunch of really cool new features in this version. Matt and Scott over at photoshopuser.com have a nice concise summary of the major features.
I think one of the [...]
October 22nd, 2009
The Lightroom 3.0 Public Beta is available for anyone to try out. It should be understood that this is what it says… a beta version. Adobe does this with Lightroom so they can get feedback from photographers before they do a final release. The features in the final release may vary from what’s in the [...]
August 22nd, 2009
Timothy Armes has written a number of nifty little export plugins for Lightroom. I used his LR/Enfuse plugin until Photomatix came out with their plugin that will round-trip images between Lightroom to Photomatix.
Tim’s latest plugin (LR2/GMail) is pretty cool, particularly if you e-mail images to clients. This little export plugin lets you e-mail images via [...]
July 12th, 2009
Marketing is all about getting attention. The front shot of your real estate marketing photos are much like a fishing lure. Fishing lures are iridescent, bright and shiny so they stand out in a background where everything looks that same. Giving your marketing photos, especially your front shot, some punch is a good way to [...]
June 27th, 2009
Ever since I got my Canon G9 and started having video files to manage I’ve been wishing Lightroom had the ability to manage my video files in the same folder structure that I keep my stills in. The files are all on the same card so why not keep the master files with the stills [...]
June 18th, 2009
I just got a Slideshow Pro newsletter announcing Slideshow Pro for Lightroom version 1.4.6. This version introduces a significant new feature: Ken Burns Panning. Slideshow Pro calls it Pan and Zoom. I updated my version of Slideshow Pro and changed my slide show for our rental property to use Ken Burns panning. It took just [...]
May 27th, 2009
Mathew Campagna’s lightroom.theturninggate.net site is a great resource for anyone interested in creating innovative slide shows from Lightroom. Mathew has written a number of Lightroom slide show templates and Lightroom template code that give Lightroom users access to slide shows like Monoslideshow, Postcard viewer and many other slide shows.
Mathew’s latest effort is TTG Highside Gallery [...]
May 11th, 2009
Ever since I started using a MacBook Pro, a couple of years ago, I’ve used an external monitor and keyboard but kept the laptop closed a ways away from the external monitor. But after reading Brandon Oelling’s post this weekend on digital-photography-school.com I decided to use the MacBook Pro as a second monitor and try [...]
April 16th, 2009
Yesterday while working with Dale, who purchased my Business of Real Estate Photography e-book, and was trying to use the branding box HTML that is in the book, I discovered that the newest 1.4 version of Slideshow Pro for Lightroom broke my branding box HTML code. This is the trouble with writing HTML for [...]
April 4th, 2009
Several discussions I’ve had with readers in the last week reminded me that it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about how easy it is to provide how to provide high quality slide shows to your client quickly and easily for just pennies. First of all here’s why you need to supply a slide [...]
March 12th, 2009
Sean McCormack recently released version 2.0 of his LRB Portfolio which is a slide show template for Lightroom that allows you to create a complete portfolio website with a Home, About, Mail and Contact page and up to six photo galleries. Here is an example of the kind of site the LRB Portfolio will build.
December 23rd, 2008
For those of you that are Lightroom users, I suggest you take a look at the two donation-ware e-books that Joe Barrett has over at Image-Space.com. There are two volumes, the first volume covers Lightroom 1.x and the newer second volume covers Lightroom 2. These e-books are tips and tricks and not manuals. I think [...]
