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 [...]
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 someone [...]
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 [...]
December 16th, 2008
Last night late when I brought up Lightroom, it announced to me that version 2.2 was available. This is a free update that includes the long awaited Panasonic DMC-LX3 Camera RAW support that I talked about a few days ago. Click here (Tom Hogarty’s blog) for all the details. If Lightroom doesn’t, announce the update [...]
October 30th, 2008
Beginning real estate photographers that are Mac users face a fundamental decision. Do you use Lightroom or do you use Aperture? While talking to such a real estate photographer this week I realized that for Mac user starting out as a photographer this decision is not that easy. First of all I need to disclose [...]
October 9th, 2008
First of all I want to clarify my description, in yesterdays post, of how the round trip process between Lightroom and Photomatix 3.1Beta works. When you send a group of images from Lightroom to Photomatix 3.1Beta (using the new Photomatix export plugin) Photomatix 3.1Beta does have a feature that will re-import the final processed image [...]
