January 19th, 2012
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 [...]
January 9th, 2012
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/ [...]
November 7th, 2011
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 [...]
April 25th, 2011
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 [...]
November 28th, 2010
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 [...]
September 8th, 2010
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 [...]
August 17th, 2010
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 [...]
June 8th, 2010
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 [...]
May 3rd, 2010
This is a subject that should pique the intrest of all real estate photographers! See Tom Hogarty’s post on this subject here.
March 23rd, 2010
Today Adobe Labs released Lightroom 3 Beta 2 “to show the progress they have been making” on new features to LR3. Check out the Adobe Labs site for the download. You have to do a new download and install. LR3 Beta 1 will NOT automatically update itself. Some of the new features are: Improved performance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
