Photography For Real Estate

Remaining Issues: Many readers had questions and Issues the day that Lightroom 4 was released. Just a couple of days ago Tom Hogarty (LR product manager) did a post that reviewed a number of outstanding issues . So if you are having problems with Lightroom 4 I would first check Tom’s list and then check the [...]

The final release of Adobe Lightroom 4 is now available for purchase or 30 day trial. All the important details are on Tom Hogarty’s blog. Several items of note: The purchase price is down to $149 from $299. The upgrade price is down to $79. There have been some changes since the public beta version:

Since Lightroom 4 Beta has been out now for 10 days and I’ve had time to play around with it I thought would try to sum up the features from the point of real estate photography. As of Lightroom 3 when Adobe added the Lens Correction features, I believe Lightroom became an essential tool for [...]

I was just about ready to call it a day but I just noticed that Adobe just put up LR 4 Beta for download. So I thought I’d pass that along. It looks like LR finally understands video. Here are a couple of places to get more info on what’s new in this release: www.photoshopcafe.com/lightroom/ [...]

I just noticed that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 is currently available at Amazon for $149. Apparently this is a special deal through November 12 (Sat). If you’ve been thinking about picking up Lightroom this would be a good time. For real estate photography you can do almost everything you need to do in Lightroom. Some do [...]

Now that real estate photographers can straighten verticals and remove barrel distortion in Lightroom 3 the only reason they need Photoshop or Photoshop Elements any more is to mask windows or replace skys right? If they had layers in Lightroom and Aperture then they wouldn’t need Photoshop! This is onOne Software’s line of thinking. So [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about pfretour.com. First of all, for those new readers readers let me recap what pfretour.com is all about. In many markets, independent real estate photographers need to have some method of supplying tours that can compete with the combined tour and photography packages that the big tour companies like [...]

While having a lens profile for Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) isn’t that big of a deal, having one for your wide angle lens makes life easier and you can to lens correction for a whole shoot essentially automatically. I was interested to find a chart that summarizes the current state of all the lenses that [...]

Mac users starting out in real estate photography are faced with a choice of whether to go with Lightroom or Aperture for photo management/editing. Back in February I did a comparison of of Lightroom and Aperture just after Aperture 3 was released. Now that both Aperture 3 and Lightroom 3 have been out for a [...]

Of all the great features and improvements that the new Lightroom 3, released by Adobe today has, the most significant feature, by far for real estate photographers is the manual lens correction sliders! For many other photographers this feature is  a yawner. But real estate photographers shoot in a right-angle, level world where verticals need [...]