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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
Hey there. I'm back for another preset day. I wanted to share some new black and white ideas I've been working on in Lightroom. As you can imagine, there's a few different ways to do black and whites (remember, they're NOT called grayscale photos) in Lightroom. But, I've been honing in on what I think [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
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Hey there! Today's the first day of my Arches National Park photo workshop in Moab, Utah. Over the next few days I'll be up at the crack of dawn (starting at 4am today) with my class shooting some of the prettiest landscapes in the country. Then we'll hit the classroom to process the photos and [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
Hi folks. Time for another one of those random Q&A days. Q. Is it true that Bogen is giving a free Webinar called Fashionable Wedding Photography: Roundtable with Claudio Basso on Friday April 17th between 2pm-3pm EDT? A. Actually, yes, it is indeed true :) Sorry, my friends over at Bogen asked if we'd spread the [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
This week I started to write my tip in a blog post and quickly realized it was going to take me a while to explain it the right way. With the wonderful world of video being so easy, I figured it would be so much easier to explain the tip if you could watch what [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
First, don't forget to scroll down for today's "Worth-a-click" post. Next, Tuesday's "Truth about LR Backups" post generated a lot of comments. I'm not going to do a long follow up because there's just so many differing opinions. After it's all said and done, I still stand by my backup strategy. However many disagreed and [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
Here's a few things that I found worth a quick visit this week. *Nik Software has been busy. Seems like their Color Efex Pro Lightroom plug-in just came out and now Silver Efex Pro has been released as a Lightroom plug-in too. Silver Efex has become, by far, my favorite way to convert to black and [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
I've had these "truths" ideas floating around in my head for a while. Basically, there's lots of information out there about various topics and I wanted to share some of the truths behind them (truths in my opinion of course) with you. In case you didn't know, Lightroom will automatically back up it's catalog as [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
Howdy folks. You're probably going to laugh at me for this tip. But my job here on the blog is to tell you about things in Lightroom that I find cool, in hopes that you may as well. So here's an easy one that I've been using a lot lately (because I just discovered it). [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
This past Wednesday I attended David Ziser's Digital Wakeup Call seminar. I mentioned it here and a few of you asked for my thoughts on the evening since this seminar will be traveling all around the country. So here goes: The evening starts at 5pm and there's various vendors in an expo-like area (for 1 hour). [...]
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RoboNews
21-04-2009, 09:05 PM
Here's a few things that I found worth a quick visit this week. Adobe is putting on an eSeminar series for professional photographers. It's free so if you're around, you should plan on attending. Famous wedding photographer, David Ziser, just kicked off his Digital Wakeup Call seminar tour with dates going through the end of [...]
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RoboNews
24-04-2009, 01:12 PM
First off, don't forget to scroll down for today's Lightroom tip. As for this post, I've had a few requests to see some photos from the Moab, Utah workshop I taught at last week. First off I have to say thanks to everyone who attended. It was an awesome workshop! I was fortunate to have [...]
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RoboNews
24-04-2009, 01:12 PM
Happy Friday fellow color pickers :) Today's tip works in the Develop, Print, Web, and Slideshow modules. Basically, it works in any module that has a color picker in it. For example, let's say you're in the Web module and you go to the Color Palette panel. You'll see a few color swatches listed there. [...]
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RoboNews
28-04-2009, 02:08 PM
Today is kind of a mixed Q&A day. First off, a huge thank you for all of the kind words from the Moab photos I posted the other day. I got a lot of questions about those photos, so I'm answering those at the top of the list here. Then I've got some Lightroom-only Q&A's [...]
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RoboNews
01-05-2009, 07:28 PM
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Ask and you shall receive they say right? This week's video is going to take you through the editing process of a couple of Moab photos I posted last week. Some of you posted (in the comments) that you'd like to see where the photo started and what settings I applied to them. Personally, I [...]
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RoboNews
05-05-2009, 09:42 AM
I hope you had a great weekend. I just wanted to say a quick thanks for all of the great comments on Friday's video post. I'll definitely be mixing some of the Before/After videos here on the site. I've also decided to create (and already started working on) a "Lightroom/Photoshop Before and After" class and [...]
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RoboNews
07-05-2009, 10:10 PM
Hi folks. Here's another quick round of Q&A's. Q. Is there a way to add music to a web gallery created in Lightroom's Web module? A. Nope, you can't add music to a web gallery. Thankfully. But the more important question is why do you want to? I'm sorry to be the one to break this [...]
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RoboNews
12-05-2009, 09:11 PM
Here's a few things that I found worth a quick visit this week. Nik Software Announces Sharpener Pro 3.0 Update for Lightroom 2. Spend an evening with Terry White from Adobe! I can tell you, there's no man I'd rather spend an evening with :) Actually, the evening has already been spent a couple [...]
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RoboNews
15-05-2009, 10:04 AM
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I've got another before/after video for you this week. First off, you can watch the video in the player directly on the site but I also put a link to this one at the bottom of this post if you want to download a full size version of the video. I just thought this one [...]
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RoboNews
20-05-2009, 06:52 AM
I'm bringing back the summer haze preset from last year with a few changes. I know it's not technically summer yet but Memorial Day is here in the US and, ever since I was a kid, that signifies "summer is here" (and if you live in Florida like I do, the torrential rain we've had [...]
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RoboNews
22-05-2009, 07:44 AM
Hey everyone! Here's another Q&A day for ya. Q. Matt, is it true you're twittering? Please say its not! A. Yes, it's true. So when I start putting @ signs in front of everything and typing RT (which really means I have nothing new to say so I'm taking what some one else has said instead) don't [...]
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RoboNews
22-05-2009, 07:51 PM
Here's a quick and dirty tip to close out the week with. Sadly, after over 2 years of using Lightroom, I just found this one this past week. Anyway, here it is. You know when you're in the Library module and you're looking through your photos using the Grid view (just press G). Well, if [...]
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RoboNews
27-05-2009, 09:50 AM
Here's a few things that I found worth a quick visit this week. I get asked a lot about Lightroom and Capture NX. I thought this article summed up some pretty good points on the topic, especially when it comes to working with large amounts of photos. *My World Wide Photowalk Page is up and I'll [...]
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RoboNews
30-05-2009, 10:40 AM
Happy Friday everyone. Here's a quick tip. If you're developing your photos and you want to quickly switch to another folder or collection, I've seen a lot of people go back to the Library module to select it. They then click the folder or collection, then find the photo, then go back into the Develop [...]
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RoboNews
03-06-2009, 04:15 AM
Hey folks! Here's another Q&A day for ya. Keep the questions coming, I've been getting a lot of good ones lately. Q. Can you go into more depth on what tablet you are using and how Lightroom deals with tablets?A. Sure. I use the Wacom Intuos 4 medium sized tablet. I have a small size [...]
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RoboNews
06-06-2009, 05:39 AM
Back in Lightroom 1, we didn't get to choose how our PSD's were named once we left Lightroom into Photoshop. But in LR2, you get to choose exactly what these edited files are named. Go to Lightroom's preferences (press Cmd-, or Ctrl-, [that's a comma]). Then click the External Editing tab and at the bottom [...]
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RoboNews
09-06-2009, 06:23 PM
Hey, its posts like these that let me get my shameless plugs in for where I'll (and my friends) are going to be teaching. So in case you're interested, read on. If not, just read the next post for today for some Lightroom stuff. *Lightroom Seminar Tour Dates - I'll be teaching a full-day Lightroom seminar [...]
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RoboNews
09-06-2009, 06:23 PM
Hey there my fine tethered friends (that was such a bad joke - sorry). I wanted to give you guys a quick update on tethered shooting options for Lightroom. As usual, there's a few different options and most of them are for Nikon shooters. If you're wondering why, its because Canon DSLRs come with a [...]
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RoboNews
12-06-2009, 07:31 PM
Hey folks. I'm out in the Palouse region of Washington state teaching my GAPW workshop and getting up at oh-dark-thirty every morning. Seriously, we were driving to our sunrise shoot today (well Thursday which is when I'm writing this) at 4:10am and the sky was already blue. By 4:45 there was sun and by 5am [...]
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RoboNews
17-06-2009, 12:51 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: *Scott Eccleston over at Weekly Photo Tips featured me in a Q&A. *Tim Armes has a new plug-in that exports your photos and preserves the folder hierarchy during the export for the new images. Cool product of the day alert. I haven't [...]
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RoboNews
18-06-2009, 01:00 AM
Mike Wiacek wrote a little program that extracts a Lightroom preset from a Flickr photo. Basically, if you see a Flickr photo you like, you can try out the Preset Extractor to create a Lightroom preset of the effect. The extractor looks at the metadata and tries to reverse engineer it into a preset. Of [...]
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RoboNews
19-06-2009, 01:32 PM
Whew! Who knew an innocent tool from a talented guy would incite a discussion like we had the other day. I held back from posting so I could respond here with my thoughts. Before we get to it, a couple of things: 1) I was extremely impressed with the quality of comments. Its definitely a touchy [...]
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RoboNews
22-06-2009, 08:00 PM
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Happy Monday folks. I hope all the dads out there had a nice Fathers Day yesterday. I know I did. Its been about 150 degrees F here in Florida lately (well, it feels like it at least) so I spent the day in the pool with the kids. Anyway, today I prepared another Before/After video. [...]
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RoboNews
24-06-2009, 09:50 PM
Happy Wednesday folks. I'm on my way out to San Jose, CA to visit the mother ship (Adobe HQ). But I wanted to let you know that the Lightroom 2.4 update is out (and Camera Raw 5.4). Its mainly a camera update (D5000 support woo hoo!!!) but there's some minor bug fixes as well. Check [...]
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RoboNews
02-07-2009, 12:12 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: Bogen is putting on an Extreme Sports webinar by kick-butt photographer Michael Clark on July 17. Its free too! Here's the link.*If you're a working pro then you'll probably want to check outGridIron Flow - a Visual Workflow Manager. Its pretty cool [...]
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RoboNews
03-07-2009, 12:19 AM
For a while now, I've had people ask if your presets were backed up with the Lightroom backup functionality. Well they're not. But The Photo Geek has released a Lightroom catalog and preset backup plug-in that backs up your catalog and presets and templates and all that good stuff. After giving it a try, I'd [...]
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RoboNews
08-07-2009, 06:17 PM
First, don't forget to check out the next post. I've commented about some comments I got here on the site. Instead of burying them in the comment section, I created a post so everyone could read. Next...Good news! The Flickr Lightroom preset extractor is back up. The original post and the following post I made about [...]
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RoboNews
08-07-2009, 06:17 PM
Hey folks. I just wanted to say thank you for the time you've taken to participate in some discussions on the blog in the last couple of weeks. There's been some pretty decent topics brought up and it reminds me of what I really like about this blog which is the level of participation from [...]
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RoboNews
11-07-2009, 07:29 AM
Happy Friday fellow Lightroomers. Here's a cool tip that came directly from a question I was asked this week. Let's say you're in the Print module and have selected 3 photos to go into your print layout or to just print on separate pages in general. If you want to add more just go to [...]
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RoboNews
15-07-2009, 12:11 AM
Hey there! I've got another summery preset for you today. First, don't forget that I'll be teaching a full-day Lightroom seminar in Chicago on July 20th and New York City on July 22nd. You can sign up over at KelbyTrainingLive.com. I'd love to see ya there. OK, now on to the preset. I was experimenting [...]
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RoboNews
17-07-2009, 12:30 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: *Got Lightroom questions? Scott Kelby did a monster Q&A the other day on Lightroom based on some ideas he got from a recent workshop. There are a ton of questions answered in the comments so make sure you stop by and take a [...]
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RoboNews
28-07-2009, 06:36 AM
There's an actual Lightroom-learning-related post below this one, but I want to give a big THANK YOU to everyone who attended my Lightroom seminars last week (in Chicago on Monday and New York City on Wednesday). I had two of the best crowds that a live instructor, standing in front of hundreds of people, could [...]
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RoboNews
28-07-2009, 06:36 AM
As I'm out on the road teaching I always pick up on areas in Lightroom that people are having a hard time with. One area I realized was saving JPEGs. Why, when, how, and what settings to used are some common questions. Why? We need to be able to save a JPEG from Lightroom so we [...]
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RoboNews
30-07-2009, 09:51 AM
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I run into a lot of photographers that organize their photos by date. Then they start using Lightroom and feel they have to do the same thing. I say abandon your date-loving folders and replace it with something much easier. Why? Lightroom automatically organizes your photos by date for you so you don't really have [...]
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RoboNews
31-07-2009, 10:32 PM
Here's a cool tip I got from blog reader Jason earlier this week. I had posted about the various options for saving JPEGs from Lightroom. I mentioned email settings that I use in the Export dialog but if you want to export for email all you really have to do is right-click on the image [...]
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RoboNews
04-08-2009, 11:11 AM
Hey folks! Here's another Q&A day for ya. Keep the questions coming.Q. Why does it take so long for Lightroom to export JPEGs? Is there any way to optimize or speed this up?A. You know, if I were asked this a couple months ago, I would have said you were outtaluck. But I read about [...]
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RoboNews
05-08-2009, 11:13 PM
If you're the contest-liking type then you've got a couple of really great opportunities here. 1) Scott Kelby is running a contest on his blog for sports-shooters. Basically, you submit your best sports photo (you can't be a pro shooter though). Mike Olivella (a pro shooter himself) along with Scott will pick their favorite. The [...]
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RoboNews
05-08-2009, 11:13 PM
Last week I created a video about my experience with organizing your photos by date vs. organizing them by some kind of descriptive folder. For the most part I expected the response I got which was: 1) A lot of people saying yes, this is the way I do it or yes this is the [...]
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RoboNews
07-08-2009, 11:32 PM
Happy Friday folks. I've got two things for you today. First is the random fact about Lightroom that I read from Lightroom engineer Troy Gaul (you see his name on the screen when you launch Lightroom). Its actually not educational in any way, but I got a kick out of it because I always joke [...]
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RoboNews
11-08-2009, 01:26 PM
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I get lots of questions about how to lay out your photos for a specific size print. In Lightroom we've got contact sheets, grids, picture packages and lots of control over printing. But if you want, say a simple 8x10, what's the best way? If you want to print a borderless 5x7 what do you [...]
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RoboNews
14-08-2009, 01:53 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) has a "Meet the Lightroom Team" video up on his blog. This time around he's featuring Andrew Rahn. Scott Bourne featured this site in his "Favorite online places to get more info about photography" post. Now [...]
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RoboNews
18-08-2009, 02:52 AM
Today I've got an update to some older retouching presets I created for the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2. On an interesting "retouching" side-note (and one that I promise I did not plan) Scott Kelby wrote a really fascinating article on the Kelly Clarkson retouching controversy. What I found most interesting is that it's not [...]
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RoboNews
20-08-2009, 03:30 PM
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Sharpening is always a hot topic when it comes to working with Lightroom and Photoshop. We have sharpening sliders in the Detail panel in Lightroom and we also have sharpening controls when it comes to printing and even more sharpening in Photoshop. Which ones are you supposed to use and in what order? That's what [...]
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RoboNews
22-08-2009, 05:18 AM
First off, I wanted to thank everyone for their comments on the Sharpening Workflow video I did the other day. There's some good follow-up questions to answer that I'll get to early next week. Now on to the tip: The Detail panel's preview (in the Develop module) was created to give you a 100% (1:1) [...]
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RoboNews
25-08-2009, 11:40 AM
One of our editors for Photoshop User Magazine, Mike Mackenzie, recently sent me a link to a really neat Lightroom add-on/preset/whatchamacallit. It's called Gavins Greyscale Gradient (from photographer Gavin Gough) and its an identity plate preset that shows you the tonal changes from white to black in 19 stages. Basically, it allows you to check [...]
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RoboNews
27-08-2009, 12:10 AM
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This week's video is kinda like a public service announcement. Earlier in the week, Scott Kelby called and said he saw a weird glitch when saving a photo in Photoshop that came from Lightroom. He asked if it happened to me when I tried, and sure enough it did. I tried to write it out, [...]
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RoboNews
29-08-2009, 12:50 AM
One of the biggest complaints about Lightroom 1 and slide shows was that when you started your slide show, the person viewing your it always saw the first slide onscreen before the slide show even started. For example, if youre showing a bride and groom the photos from their wedding, when they sit down, they [...]
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RoboNews
02-09-2009, 08:25 AM
Hi everyone. Been getting lots of good questions lately so here's another Q&A day for you.Q. Hi Matt. In your Sharpening Workflow video, why didn't you open in Photoshop as a smart object. You could still apply your filter as a smart filter right?A. Actually that's a great question and I don't really have a [...]
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RoboNews
03-09-2009, 08:50 PM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: Bogen has another free webinar on shooting fall colors coming up on September 18. Imagenomic's Portraiture plug-in (very cool by the way) is now available as a Lightroom plug-in as well. *Interesting blog post by LR product manager Tom Hogarty about Lightroom [...]
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RoboNews
04-09-2009, 09:00 PM
Time for a quick tip. If youre going to be going back and forth between Lightroom 2 and Photoshop, you'll probably want consistency in your color between the two programs. That's why you might want to change your color space in Photoshop to match Lightrooms default color space of ProPhoto RGB (no you can't change [...]
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RoboNews
09-09-2009, 01:05 AM
I've had a lot of questions about Lightroom's compatibility with Apple's new OS (Snow Leopard) so I wanted to take a quick moment to share my experiences with you. I installed it last week and took the last 4-5 days to go through and do my normal workflow in Lightroom and Photoshop as well as [...]
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RoboNews
11-09-2009, 01:25 AM
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You can bet that just about any time I'm out teaching Lightroom I get this question. And every time I get it I swear that I make a mental note to myself to make sure I cover it in a tip. And every time I get back to the office guess what? I forget :) [...]
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RoboNews
12-09-2009, 01:30 AM
Hey there! Here's a neat one that I think a lot of people miss because its kinda buried in the preferences dialog. When you click to zoom in on a photo, Lightroom zooms in close to the area that you clicked but just in that general area. If you wanted the area you clicked on [...]
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RoboNews
16-09-2009, 02:28 AM
There's a new preset post below this one but I wanted to give you a quick update. Lightroom 2.5 update is out (and Camera Raw 5.5). Its mainly a camera update (D3000 and D300s) but there's some other very minor stuff as well. Check out Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty's blog for more details and [...]
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RoboNews
16-09-2009, 02:28 AM
On the heels of a few related printing questions lately, I realized its actually not quite as intuitive to set up a print for say a standard 8x10 or even 5x7. I'm not talking about photos in a picture package, but just one 8x10 photo per page. So I went ahead and created a few [...]
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RoboNews
18-09-2009, 03:10 AM
Try saying that 5 times fast. "Wes from Wacom talks Lightroom... Wes from Wacom talks.." :)OK so its really not that hard after all. Anyway, your job for today is to make sure you've read Wes Maggio's (Application Specialist for Wacom Technology) guest blog appearance on Scott Kelby's blog. Wes specifically talks about the pen/tablet [...]
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RoboNews
19-09-2009, 04:12 AM
Here's a cool little tip if you work with presets a lot and you find out you want to change one of them. Let's say you start your editing in the Develop module and apply a preset to an image. You like it. Great! But then you realize you wanted to tweak one of the [...]
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RoboNews
22-09-2009, 09:10 AM
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Hey folks. I created a quick 4 minute video for you on my first thoughts on the Eye-Fi wireless SD cards. I've had some people ask me how it would work when it comes to shooting tethered in Lightroom so I thought I'd give a quick demo of it. In a nutshell, the "pros" are [...]
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RoboNews
24-09-2009, 09:42 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: *First, scroll down to the next blog post to read a totally un-Lightroom-related (but interesting) story. Not necessarily Lightroom related but it's still pretty big news. Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop Elements (version 8). And its for the Mac and [...]
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RoboNews
24-09-2009, 09:42 AM
I know this one isn't Lightroom related but its an interesting story I felt like I should share since there may be others affected by it. About 18 months ago I bought an Apple Time Capsule. Well, two days ago I woke up and it was turned off. No life whatsoever. I did my hi-tech [...]
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RoboNews
29-09-2009, 12:01 AM
Hi everyone! This week is Photoshop World and I'm tying up all the loose ends that need tied. Don't forget that if you're a Lightroom user we've got a whole track dedicated to LR during Photoshop World. Each year we're asked for more Lightroom training so we made sure there's a Lightroom class being taught [...]
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RoboNews
02-10-2009, 12:40 AM
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Catalog questions always seem to be at the top of everyone's list. So this week I've covered one that I get a lot. It deals with merging catalogs. A good example would be if you've got one catalog for professional work and then maybe one catalog for your personal photos. But you decide at some [...]
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RoboNews
07-10-2009, 02:26 AM
Hi everyone. Just got back from Photoshop World and I have lots of good questions that I got from the show to share with you. Let's get started:Q. Matt. Did you have a good time at Photoshop World and was there a lot of interest in Lightroom?A. Heck yeah to both questions! Photoshop World was [...]
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RoboNews
10-10-2009, 03:12 AM
First off, there's a tip post right below this one so don't forget to check it out. Also, I Just wanted to let you guys know that I had a brand new online training course go up on Kelby Training.com this week. Its all about backing up Lightroom. It sounds easy, but its probably the [...]
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RoboNews
10-10-2009, 03:12 AM
Happy Friday. Everyone loves shortcuts right? So here's a few little known Lightroom keyboard shortcuts to keep you going for a while. Mac on left / PC on right *Go to Full Screen Mode and hide all panels at the same time: Cmd-Shift-F / Ctrl-Shift-F *Go straight to Camera Calibration panel (useful for camera profiles): Cmd-7 / [...]
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RoboNews
14-10-2009, 07:30 AM
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I figured I'd pick off another common question I get during this week's video. It deals with what happens to your JPEGs when you shoot in the Raw+JPEG mode on your camera. I always get lots of questions from people that say they shoot Raw+JPEG but Lightroom is ignoring them. Actually, its supposed to. See, [...]
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RoboNews
16-10-2009, 08:03 AM
Here's some more Q&A's for ya. Q. When you compose a HDR image, do you keep all your original raw files in archives, or just the resulting TIFF?A. You know, this is a great question and I'm surprised it hasn't been asked earlier. Personally, I keep all of the raw files for now. But I [...]
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RoboNews
17-10-2009, 09:45 AM
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I decided to record a video for today's tip because a) I started to write it out and realized it was a very difficult to put this one into words without lots of screen captures and, b) I'm lazy and a video was much easier. Enjoy and have a great weekend.- MattClick here to download [...]
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RoboNews
21-10-2009, 07:14 AM
Here's a few links worth checking out while you're web surfing today: Sean McCormack wrote a very cool little article on Lightroom plug-ins. There's a lot of 'em out there and this sums it up very nicely. *X-rite's Color Checker Passport has direct integration when it comes to custom profiles in Lightroom. *Rob Sylvan [...]
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RoboNews
22-10-2009, 08:01 PM
Hey everyone! Big day today... I'm heading up to New York to PhotoPlus East early this morning but that's not the big news. Adobe has once again released a public beta of the new version of Lightroom. Lightroom 3 Beta was announced and is now available as a free download for anyone (not just existing [...]
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RoboNews
28-10-2009, 09:30 PM
Here's some Lightroom 3 Beta Q&A's for ya:Q. Will the beta run next to my real version of Lightroom 2? Basically, can I use both?A. Yep. No problem you can use both at the same time.Q. Will my Lightroom 2 Catalogs Work with Lightroom 3 Beta? A. No. You'll have to import a whole new [...]
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RoboNews
30-10-2009, 10:03 PM
Over the last couple of months, I've had the opportunity to test drive the Lightroom 3 Beta before it came out. I spent a pretty decent amount of time kicking the tires but there's one little feature/tip that I didn't find out until this week. Before the Lightroom 3 Beta, when sharpening you had to [...]
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RoboNews
02-11-2009, 11:02 PM
A couple of weeks ago, Adobe released a beta version of Lightroom 3. Among the new features is a grain effect that people have been asking for to simulate film grain. So I figured what better candidate for a new preset then some grain effects. They're pretty straightforward and there's 3 versions of the effect [...]
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RoboNews
05-11-2009, 11:51 PM
During a recent workshop I had some one ask what a Snapshot was (its a panel on the left side in the Develop module). Then everyone else kinda chimed in with a "yeah what the heck is that?". They don't get used a lot, but I think they definitely do come in useful at times. [...]
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RoboNews
07-11-2009, 12:13 PM
Your tip for today falls victim to one of those little things that I never knew about before and found out about the hard way. It has to do with the Slideshow module. You know how you can put an Identity Plate on your slideshow right? You can also put other various text overlays that [...]
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RoboNews
07-11-2009, 12:13 PM
Hey folks. I've mentioned David Ziser's Digital Wakeup Call tour before and I just wanted to let you know there's a few more dates left. Of course you'll learn lots of stuff about shooting weddings but David is also a master at Lightroom and he's got some great things to share when it comes to [...]
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RoboNews
10-11-2009, 01:22 AM
If you haven't seen it already, Scott Kelby posted a "10 Things I Would Tell New Lightroom Users" over on his blog today. Its a must read if you're a new-ish Lightroom user and I'll be you'll find something cool on there even if you've been using Lightroom for a while. However, I wanted to [...]
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RoboNews
12-11-2009, 01:35 AM
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Here's another one of those before and after videos for you folks. I know these are popular because they really show the workflow and the link between the two programs we tend to use most - Lightroom and Photoshop. I thought this particular photo made a great candidate because I was able to do some [...]
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RoboNews
14-11-2009, 02:02 AM
First off, thanks for all the great feedback on the Before/After video the other day. For those of you who watched it (and commented on it), the grayish pumpkin that I darkened was brought up a few times. I thought about trying to do something more with it, but then I showed the photo to [...]
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RoboNews
18-11-2009, 03:02 AM
I've got a big article due for Photoshop User magazine this week so I'm gonna make this one short. In fact, I'm being so lazy today that I'm stealing a tip from some one else. See, for a while now I'd have to say the most common preset-related question I get is how to fade [...]
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RoboNews
19-11-2009, 03:59 PM
Over the last few months, I've done a few of those Before/After videos that involve sharpening as one of the steps. Each time I've done it, I go into Photoshop and do the sharpening there. I've noticed a number of good comment/questions asking about why I don't use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom to sharpen [...]
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RoboNews
21-11-2009, 04:09 AM
Here's a few things worth checking out as you surf around today or this weekend. *Adobe has released a beta of Lightroom 2.6 (and Camera Raw 5.6). The major thing I can see is that it now supports the Canon 7D, G11, and Nikon D3s. You can get it over at Adobe Labs if you're [...]
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RoboNews
25-11-2009, 01:04 AM
Hey everyone. After 2 to approximately 12 weeks of being off the air, I'm happy to say that Photoshop User TV is back. We recorded our new show on our new set in our new format last week and its up on the web. For those of you that always liked PSTV and the "edu-tainment" [...]
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RoboNews
01-12-2009, 03:31 AM
Happy Monday folks. I've got two things for you today. *First, if you're into that whole-spend-money-online-like-crazy thing called Cyber Monday, NAPP came out with some pretty killer deals. Now, remember I work for NAPP so I know what the prices and things normally are. I gotta say, if you're into anything that's on this list [...]
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RoboNews
03-12-2009, 06:30 AM
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I sat down to write a quick post about all the little shortcuts and tips that I know about the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2 (and 3 beta) and I realized there's a truckload of them. So I created a video instead. I didn't actually go through and count but there's definitely more than 10 [...]
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RoboNews
05-12-2009, 07:12 AM
Happy Friday everyone. Here's a quick tip for you when viewing before/afters in Lightroom. If you press the \ [Backslash] key in the Develop module, it toggles you between the original image (with absolutely no changes), and the photo as it looks now with your edits. But what if you dont want your Before photo [...]
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RoboNews
08-12-2009, 12:28 AM
I want to give a big thanks to everyone who provided some names for today's preset. I'm actually using a combination of two names that were suggested - Fairytale Glow. I'm really happy with the way that this one came out. I find it works best on portraits (hopefully the name implies that) and photos [...]
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RoboNews
12-12-2009, 02:41 AM
I thought it'd be fun to find out what everyone's favorite Lightroom plug-in is. Now, I'm going to kick it off by giving you a very specific one because saying I love Nik's Color Efex Pro, isn't very specific. Its got a ton filters in it. So I'll take it one step further by saying [...]
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RoboNews
12-12-2009, 02:41 AM
If you're looking for a great gift (for yourself or any of your photographer buddies) then you should check out these off camera flash t-shirts. Scott Kelby came up with the idea earlier this year and showed it around the office and we all thought it was great. Its geeky but hey, we're geeks so [...]
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RoboNews
16-12-2009, 07:51 AM
Its preset time again. This week I've got an one with an edgy feel to it. You'll see it works perfectly for photos like the sample below. Its a little desaturated in nature with some extra exposure and a few other things packed in there. One quick note about the preset that I found was [...]
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RoboNews
19-12-2009, 09:14 AM
Just a quick FYI. Adobe has released Lightroom 2.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 today. They're basically updates for new camera so if you fall into that category (Nikon D3s, Canon 7D, etc...) then you'll want to check it out. Also, a quick note for all the Lightroom 3 beta users out there. This update [...]
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RoboNews
19-12-2009, 09:14 AM
I know that most of us using Lightroom probably shoot raw most of the time. But I'm constantly importing photos from my point-and-shoot as well and those aren't i the raw format. Plus, I'll typically work with photos my family takes and they're DEFINITELY not in the raw format. So when it comes to [...]
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RoboNews
23-12-2009, 01:13 AM
The other week I wrote about my all time favorite plug-in of 2009 and asked for your opinions as well. As I read through the comments I saw a lot of questions pop up so I figured I'd cover them today. Here goes:Q. Lightroom has plug-ins? Did I miss this because I'm still on version [...]
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RoboNews
29-12-2009, 01:20 AM
First off, I hope you had a Merry Christmas weekend. I had a great time with my family and, of course, my kids got way too much stuff. Anyone else have in-laws that, even though you try to moderate how much you buy your kids (sorry, that Santa brings your kids), they still go out [...]
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RoboNews
05-01-2010, 07:16 AM
Happy New Year folks! I hope you all had a safe, happy, and fun holiday. Now its time to get back to work. Here's a few things for you to consider doing (if you're not already) when it comes to Lightroom for the new year. 1. Collections - Collections are like little photo albums. They're [...]
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RoboNews
08-01-2010, 08:04 AM
I received a question in the comment section the other day from some one asking about DNG and what the rest of the folks thought about it. The question was answered by a person that said something to the effect that they thought most people using Lightroom were converting to DNG upon import. It got [...]
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RoboNews
11-01-2010, 09:31 PM
First off, thanks for all of the conversation in the comments on the DNG article the other day. I wanted to post a follow up to give some more thoughts and answer a few questions? For starters, I have to say there were more DNGers than I thought. I didn't go through and count each one [...]
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RoboNews
15-01-2010, 11:05 PM
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Well everyone, after this week I think we will have successfully beat this DNG thing into the ground. It's all good though. I think the topic is worth a little extra time. Anyway, I realized there was one question that came up a lot. It deals with if/how/when Lightroom will save all of your edits [...]
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RoboNews
20-01-2010, 12:31 AM
For those of you that like to keep your Lightroom certifications up to date, you'll be happy to know that the Lightroom 2 Exam Aid is out from examaids.com. The LR2 exam was released back in November 2009 and the folks over at exam aids have since put together another one of their preparation packages [...]
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RoboNews
22-01-2010, 02:11 AM
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This week I wanted to tackle a tiny setting in the Lightroom 3 beta that you'll want to be aware of. It's called the Process Version. Even if you're not using the LR3 beta, this will eventually come into play in your life in the full version of LR 3 when it comes out, as [...]
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RoboNews
26-01-2010, 07:54 PM
If you haven't noticed yet, your Presets panel in the Develop module can get outta control pretty easily. I know that I've got over 100 presets and the list still grows. Some I use all the time and some I just keep around to use once in a while. Now, whether you create your own [...]
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RoboNews
29-01-2010, 08:42 AM
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Hi all. A while back I created a video on the non-Lightroom (but still very important) topic of calibration using a hardware calibration device. From what I can gather out there, a lot of photographers have heard the message loud and clear - use a hardware calibration device. I don't really care which one, just [...]
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RoboNews
01-02-2010, 10:41 PM
Well, its preset day and I've got one that's been asked for quite a bit since I started making presets. It has to do with a "grain" effect and it deals with the new Grain setting in Lightroom 3 Beta. BUT WAIT!!! If you're not a LR3 Beta user don't worry. The preset itself still [...]
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RoboNews
03-02-2010, 11:10 PM
Its time for another round of Lightroom Q&A's. Keep the questions coming. Q. When I export images sometimes I choose to export to a custom size (640 x 480) for web viewing. The problem is that the images that were shot using a vertical orientation are exported as 360 x 480 instead of 480 x 640. [...]
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RoboNews
05-02-2010, 11:55 PM
Here's a neat little tip I use a lot so I hope you will too. If you want to export some photos and use the same export settings you used the last time, you can bypass the Export dialog and just go to File > Export with Previous. Better yet, memorize the keyboard shortcut Cmd-Option-Shift-E [...]
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RoboNews
09-02-2010, 08:28 PM
It's inevitable. Every time I teach a seminar or workshop I have some one approach me with a catalog problem. It's usually gotten so bad for them that they've sworn off Lightroom by this point because of it. Unfortunately, my advice isn't something they want to hear but it's really the best advice I can [...]
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RoboNews
12-02-2010, 09:05 AM
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This week's video came from a question I got recently about exporting hi-res and low-res versions of your photos at the same time. While Lightroom won't let you do it exactly like you'd want with 1 trip to the Export dialog, you can still workaround it pretty easily and get the same results. By the [...]
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RoboNews
16-02-2010, 07:32 PM
Obviously there's been a lot of buzz around lately about Apple's Aperture 3. I read an article yesterday titled "Five Reasons For Switching from Lightroom 2 to Aperture 3" by a gentleman named Marco. So I figured I'd take a stab at my own rendition of the "5 things" article (no offense to Marco) and [...]
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RoboNews
18-02-2010, 07:50 PM
This week on DTown TV (the show should be up at some point today - or maybe tomorrow) I talked a little about metering when it comes to snow and I briefly jumped into some post-processing talk about what you can do if you have blown out highlights. Below is an example of a photo [...]
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RoboNews
19-02-2010, 08:06 PM
I just got back to my hotel room from the Photoshop 20th Anniversary Party in San Francisco. You know, I knew it was going to be fun, but I have to say it totally rocked. A big thanks to all that made it out for the event. The crowd was great and the people who [...]
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RoboNews
23-02-2010, 09:25 PM
Hey folks. I'll be heading out to teach at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai later this week (by the way, if you have any "must shoot" places out there please let me know). Anyway, I wanted to make sure I got another preset in before I left. I called this one "Warm and Fuzzy" because [...]
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RoboNews
25-02-2010, 09:47 AM
Here's a few things worth checking out as you surf around the web today.First a couple of "me" things: I just turned my new portfolio website live over at MattKloskowski.com. A good friend of NAPP (Firgs) has an interview with me posted on her website (lots of other NAPP interviews as well).*Finally, in other [...]
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RoboNews
01-03-2010, 10:51 PM
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Greetings from Dubai! I'm teaching at Gulf Photo Plus this week but I made sure I recorded a video before I left. It's another one of those before/after videos and it takes one of my photos from a hot air balloon festival I shot last summer from start to finish. It just happens that this [...]
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RoboNews
10-03-2010, 06:30 AM
If you’ve ever looked into Lightroom’s Presets folder (Lightroom Preferences > Presets area) you’ll see there are actually a lot of different areas in Lightroom that have [...]
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RoboNews
11-03-2010, 07:27 PM
You probably always hear people talk about backing up right? Well something happened to me recently that I figured I’d share in hopes that anyone not backing [...]
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RoboNews
12-03-2010, 07:32 PM
It’s Friday and I’m heading up north to shoot my sister-in-law’s wedding. Wish me luck Anyway, I figured I’d close out the week with a [...]
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RoboNews
16-03-2010, 09:50 PM
This week I’m going back to an edgier look for a preset. I’ve actually included two in this one – hard edge and soft edge. They’re both [...]
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RoboNews
17-03-2010, 10:02 PM
Hey folks. First, be sure to scroll down and check out the next video post. It’s another one of the Before/After videos and it’s a little different [...]
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RoboNews
17-03-2010, 10:02 PM
This week I’m heading straight to the request lines for Lightroom Killer Tips. A couple of weeks ago some one requested a before/after video on black and [...]
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RoboNews
18-03-2010, 10:26 PM
Weird title for a post huh? After reading some comments from yesterday’s Before/After video with a Black and White example, it got me thinking. A few people [...]
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RoboNews
19-03-2010, 10:31 PM
This is another one of those times where I started to write a tip down and realized it was so much easier to show you in a [...]
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RoboNews
20-03-2010, 10:44 AM
First off, there’s a tip for today in a post right below this so make sure you scroll down to read it. Next, thanks very much for [...]
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RoboNews
23-03-2010, 08:43 PM
Hey Lightroom Peeps! (that’s hip slang for Lightroom people) Today is pre-conference workshop day here at Photoshop World in Orlando. I’ve got an HDR pre-con that starts [...]
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RoboNews
01-04-2010, 04:40 AM
Here’s a quick tip that I showed at Photoshop World last week and it got a lot of “ah ha’s” from the crowd. It has to do [...]
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RoboNews
03-04-2010, 05:19 AM
Knowing how to crop a horizontal image into a vertical one or vice versa, has always been this little secret among Lightroom users. If you stand on [...]
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RoboNews
06-04-2010, 08:07 AM
(Note: If you’ve already ready this, then see the edit below.) I gotta admit, it’s pretty nice when this happens. I moved one slider in this photo [...]
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RoboNews
06-04-2010, 08:12 PM
A few items worth checking out today: *This one snuck by a lot of folks the other week, but Adobe made some new D3 and D700 camera profiles [...]
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RoboNews
09-04-2010, 10:13 AM
Hey guys. If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to lately this video from Scott Kelby’s blog should shed some light on it. Photoshop CS5 is [...]
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RoboNews
09-04-2010, 10:20 PM
A while back, I created a video about Smart Collections. The other day, they really helped me out when I needed to find some photos quick so [...]
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RoboNews
13-04-2010, 01:41 AM
It’s CS5 day here at the NAPP Headquarters in sunny Tampa, FL. This is about as big of a day for our company as it gets as [...]
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RoboNews
15-04-2010, 02:02 AM
Since Photoshop CS5 was announced on Monday, I’ve been getting lots of questions about whether or not I like the HDR features in Photoshop better than Photomatix. [...]
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RoboNews
22-04-2010, 09:31 AM
It’s time for another before/after video and I took this one in a slightly different direction. The photo I started out with has a very edgy and [...]
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RoboNews
23-04-2010, 09:50 PM
Hi all. I’m posting over at Scott’s blog today so make sure you stop by and give it a read. As for Lightroom, the only big thing [...]
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RoboNews
26-04-2010, 10:50 PM
This week on Photoshop TV I did a Lightroom/Camera Raw preset tutorial. Part of the tutorial was creating a vintage-style look for your photos. It came out [...]
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RoboNews
27-04-2010, 11:00 PM
Hey everyone. I’m blogging over at Scott’s again today while he’s taking a break. I wrote about 5 lessons for landscape photography that I’ve picked up over [...]
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RoboNews
30-04-2010, 11:20 AM
Here’s some cool news in the Lightroom world. Adobe Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty revealed on his blog yesterday, that Lightroom 3 will have Lens Correction in [...]
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RoboNews
04-05-2010, 04:12 PM
It seems every article these days has to have a number attached to it. You know what I mean right? The 5 Most Common Something-or-others. 10 Reasons [...]
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RoboNews
06-05-2010, 04:39 AM
I thought it would be cool to take a quick look at the anatomy of a preset. What goes on behind the scenes as I come up [...]
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RoboNews
11-05-2010, 12:40 AM
Morning everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. I wanted to cover something today that I’ve seen mentioned quite a bit (in the comments) here on the [...]
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RoboNews
13-05-2010, 01:40 PM
Last week I posted about 5 common Lightroom slip-ups. I gotta admit, I’m really digging this numbered tip thing that’s out there a lot lately. It kinda [...]
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RoboNews
14-05-2010, 01:50 PM
Hi everyone. Today is the first in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions [...]
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RoboNews
18-05-2010, 05:29 AM
Come join my friends from Peachpit (my publisher) and I tomorrow evening from 8 to 9 p.m. ET (5 to 6 p.m. PT), for a 1-hour webcast [...]
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RoboNews
20-05-2010, 10:53 PM
Here’s some more Q&A’s for ya. Q. Matt, is there any chance you’ll update your presets for the Lightroom 3 Beta? A. I’ll definitely update them. I may wait [...]
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RoboNews
22-05-2010, 11:02 AM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
26-05-2010, 03:44 AM
A few Lightroom-related items worth checking out today: The folks from Kodak have teamed up with Jeffrey Friedl to create a Kodak Export Plug-in for LR. According [...]
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RoboNews
01-06-2010, 07:35 PM
I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. I got to spend some quality time on the beach with my family which was great since [...]
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RoboNews
02-06-2010, 09:00 PM
Just wanted to let you know that my photowalk (part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk) is live and ready to go on the World Wide Photowalk website. [...]
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RoboNews
04-06-2010, 08:55 PM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
08-06-2010, 08:12 PM
Yup, Lightroom 3 is officially out. I can now stop asking you (in my blog posts) to stop asking me when Lightroom 3 is shipping Anyway, [...]
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RoboNews
11-06-2010, 04:30 PM
There were a bunch of questions the other day when Lightroom 3 was announced. So I figured I’d dedicate a Q&A day to ‘em: Q. If I upgrade [...]
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RoboNews
15-06-2010, 06:42 PM
Since Lightroom 3 was announced last week, I’ve seen a bunch of questions around how to get the work you’ve done in the Lightroom 3 Beta into [...]
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RoboNews
18-06-2010, 08:50 AM
OK, if you’re into using Collections then I’ve got a really cool tip for you this week. They’re called target collections and they work in Lightroom 2 [...]
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RoboNews
18-06-2010, 09:30 PM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
23-06-2010, 02:11 AM
A while back I released the edge darkening presets that I use in Lightroom. I used to use the vignetting setting and then Lightroom 2 came out [...]
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RoboNews
24-06-2010, 06:46 PM
Hope you’re having a great Thursday. Here’s a few Lightroom-related links to check out while you’re surfing around today:*Timothy Armes released a new Lightroom Plug-in called Keyboard [...]
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RoboNews
28-06-2010, 01:02 PM
I was loading some photos on my iPad this past weekend, and it led me down the path of figuring out what the best Lightroom photo export [...]
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RoboNews
30-06-2010, 01:41 PM
I was recently in New York and made a trip to St. Patricks Cathedral with the specific intention of taking an HDR photo (click the photo on [...]
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RoboNews
01-07-2010, 01:50 PM
Wow! I posted yesterday’s story because Scott mentioned it on his blog on Monday morning, and I had a couple of people ask me for the story. [...]
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RoboNews
07-07-2010, 09:01 PM
One of the questions I get asked the most is whether I’d use a tripod in a church to take an HDR photo but we won’t go [...]
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RoboNews
10-07-2010, 02:07 AM
*The folks over at Unified Color have caused quite a bit of stir with their new HDR Expose program. It’s got a plug-in for Lightroom as well [...]
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RoboNews
15-07-2010, 02:26 AM
Over the years I’ve heard (and probably even said it myself) that Lightroom is the “digital darkroom”. Lately, the whole digital darkroom thing has got me thinking [...]
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RoboNews
16-07-2010, 05:14 AM
Hey everyone! I’m heading up to Boston today to teach my Lightroom 3 Live! Tour tomorrow. There’s still seats so if you can make it I’d love [...]
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RoboNews
20-07-2010, 06:34 AM
Welcome to my Steal-a-tip-from-Scott-Kelby’s-New-Book tip week. Since I’m teaching a couple of 1-day Lightroom seminars on the west coast (LA and San Francisco) I figured it would [...]
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RoboNews
21-07-2010, 08:00 AM
Today is day 2 of my Steal-a-tip-from-Scott-Kelby’s-New-Book tip week. See, I’m teaching a couple of 1-day Lightroom seminars on the west coast (LA and San Francisco), and [...]
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RoboNews
22-07-2010, 08:00 AM
Here’s another tip from Scott today. Back story: I’m teaching a couple of 1-day Lightroom seminars on the west coast (LA and San Francisco) I figured it [...]
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RoboNews
23-07-2010, 01:01 PM
Hey folks. I had a killer day yesterday teaching the Lightroom 3 Live! seminar in LA. The crowd was awesome and it was great to see so [...]
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RoboNews
30-07-2010, 07:14 AM
Last week Scott Kelby mentioned I’d be doing a video on going from iPhoto to Lightroom. Over the last few week’s we’ve done a number of our [...]
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RoboNews
03-08-2010, 10:58 AM
Hey there. I hope everyone had a great weekend. Today I’ve got more of a public service announcement for you when it comes to the Clarity slider [...]
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RoboNews
06-08-2010, 04:39 AM
A few weeks ago some one asked me a question if it was possible to print a photo with rounded corners in Lightroom. Believe it or not, [...]
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RoboNews
06-08-2010, 05:28 PM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
06-08-2010, 05:35 PM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
11-08-2010, 12:42 AM
I just got a copy of my new Lightroom 3 Power Session DVD today. The DVD is meant for anyone already using Lightroom who needs to get [...]
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RoboNews
12-08-2010, 02:41 AM
A few things to check out while surfing the web today: *DVD Contest Winner – I had a contest yesterday and the winner of my new Lightroom 3 [...]
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RoboNews
13-08-2010, 05:20 PM
If you haven’t stopped by yet, make sure you check out Scott Kelby’s blog today. I don’t want to spoil it too much but Scott wrote a [...]
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RoboNews
13-08-2010, 05:20 PM
Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how [...]
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RoboNews
17-08-2010, 10:33 PM
OK, weird question – I know. But do you find you typically underexpose or overexpose your photos. Here’s why I ask. Believe it or not, It makes [...]
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RoboNews
19-08-2010, 05:52 PM
Here’s a few links to check out. I’ve also got a video coming on the Camera Calibration panel and calibration in general so keep an eye out [...]
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RoboNews
20-08-2010, 06:20 PM
Happy Friday. This week we’re going to take a look at the Camera Calibration panel. There’s a few different things you can do here from customizing color [...]
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RoboNews
25-08-2010, 09:13 PM
I’ve got a pretty cool Print module preset this time around. It utilizes the new Custom Print Package feature in Lightroom 3. It’s got room for 15 [...]
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RoboNews
27-08-2010, 10:27 AM
Hey folks. I just wanted to let you know I went into my comments folder for the blog today, and saw that over 200 of your comments [...]
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RoboNews
30-08-2010, 07:42 PM
Hey everyone! I’m out in Las Vegas teaching at Photoshop World this week, but I wanted to kick the week off with a topic (and some presets) [...]
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RoboNews
08-09-2010, 06:57 AM
I just got back from Photoshop World and it’s my first day back in the office. I’m working on a new video today (which should go up [...]
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RoboNews
09-09-2010, 07:01 AM
The other week I posted some presets and a tip on how to get brighter prints. Basically, the idea was that our LCD screens (or at least [...]
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RoboNews
09-09-2010, 07:10 AM
The other week I posted some presets and a tip on how to get brighter prints. Basically, the idea was that our LCD screens (or at least [...]
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RoboNews
10-09-2010, 08:24 AM
Hey folks. Just found out that a Sports Photography webinar from Manfrotto is happening this afternoon from 2pm-3pm EDT. Here’s the link.
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RoboNews
14-09-2010, 06:01 PM
This week I’ve got some sky-enhancing presets for you. I created some similar presets a couple of years ago, but I’ve replaced them with the ones you’ll [...]
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RoboNews
14-09-2010, 06:01 PM
Just wanted to let you know that Photoshop World attendees, get 30% off MetalPrints through September 30th. Just go to BayPhoto.com. Then enter Promo Code PSMETAL30 in [...]
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RoboNews
17-09-2010, 09:31 AM
Laying out your print is probably one of the first things you should do when you get to the Print Module in Lightroom. Part of this means [...]
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RoboNews
20-09-2010, 05:52 PM
It’s official. I’ve jumped on the vampire bandwagon too. It’s impossible not to with all of the movies and TV shows out there. It doesn’t help that [...]
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RoboNews
22-09-2010, 10:01 PM
Here’s a few news items for the day:*There’s been lot’s of talk about printing and calibration lately. Well, X-Rite is hosting a free webinar on Sept. 28 [...]
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RoboNews
24-09-2010, 12:12 PM
Figured today was a good day to catch up on some Q&A’s from recent posts. Enjoy!Q. How can I save my print templates to a JPEG like [...]
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RoboNews
27-09-2010, 09:03 PM
Last week’s “Twilight Inspired” presets had me admitting that I like vampire shows. This week you’re getting a look into another favorite of mine – The UFC [...]
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RoboNews
29-09-2010, 01:11 AM
Hey folks. I’m at the airport waiting for a flight to Minneapolis to meet with the Lightroom developer team (and product manager Tom Hogarty). I’m meeting Scott [...]
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RoboNews
06-10-2010, 01:20 PM
A while back I created a video on Smart Collections and one of the ways that I use them. Well, I was working with some new Smart [...]
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RoboNews
11-10-2010, 02:01 PM
This week’s preset comes from what has to be the coolest opening credits on TV… Hawaii Five-O. Whether it’s the old show or the new one, which [...]
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RoboNews
12-10-2010, 02:30 PM
Hey everyone. I’ve been wanting to do a class on sharpening your photos for a while now and I’ve finally got some breathing room to get it [...]
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RoboNews
15-10-2010, 01:23 PM
Thanks for all of the comments the other day about my upcoming sharpening class. I have to say I love the way this community jumps in to [...]
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RoboNews
19-10-2010, 07:27 PM
The other week I was invited by Nikon to go shoot the Alburquerque Balloon Festival. I figured I’d share some of the photos as well as the [...]
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RoboNews
22-10-2010, 06:53 AM
Today I’ve got another one of those Before/After videos for you. This time we stay primarily in Lightroom with a tiny bit of Photoshop retouching. It uses [...]
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RoboNews
26-10-2010, 01:28 PM
Hey there. Here’s a few news items to check out: Don’t forget I’m signing all pre-order copies of my newly updated Photoshop Layers book if you order [...]
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RoboNews
02-11-2010, 01:06 PM
I was in New York last week at Photo Plus East and I realized something. So many people don’t use one of my absolute favorite features for [...]
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RoboNews
04-11-2010, 03:35 AM
Even though they’re at the very bottom of the Develop module panel, one of the first settings I change on my photos is the Camera Calibration Profile. [...]
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RoboNews
11-11-2010, 09:01 AM
This week’s video comes from a request I got on my Facebook page. It’s a pretty specific question and something that you’d normally think Lightroom doesn’t do. [...]
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RoboNews
12-11-2010, 09:30 PM
Hope you’re having a great Friday so far. I’m slightly ashamed (but not very) to admit that it’s 2:00 am and I just finished playing the new [...]
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RoboNews
16-11-2010, 08:20 AM
Hey everyone. To celebrate the release of my new book, Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature, I’m doing a live webcast today at 12 [...]
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RoboNews
16-11-2010, 08:28 PM
Some of you had some questions from my Layers book live webcast yesterday, so I wanted to do a quick follow up. I’m feeling a bit under [...]
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RoboNews
23-11-2010, 06:48 AM
I recently got a Dell Precision M6500 for various tasks. While I still use my Macbook Pro primarily, I have to say the Dell is more and [...]
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RoboNews
29-11-2010, 09:55 PM
Happy Monday everyone. I hope you had a great weekend. A couple of things to kick off the day before we get into the real topic:1) First, [...]
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RoboNews
01-12-2010, 12:21 PM
I just found out about a killer deal that NAPP is going with onOne Software. You’ll get the Perfect Photo Suite (which includes pretty much all of [...]
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RoboNews
06-12-2010, 10:31 PM
Hey folks. I’m guest blogging over at Scott Kelby’s blog today. The topic is something I’ve been wanting to write about for a while now – Is [...]
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RoboNews
11-12-2010, 01:05 AM
Here’s a few news items and links for the day: *Lightroom 3.3 and Camera Raw 6.3 are now available. It’s mostly a camera update, lens profile update [...]
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RoboNews
16-12-2010, 05:16 AM
Hey everyone. A friend of mine, Dawn Camp over at MyHomeSweetHomeOnline.net sent me a graphic the other week and asked if we could create something similar in [...]
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RoboNews
18-12-2010, 06:43 AM
Scott turned me on to this tip in the Library module. If you turn on your Search Filter Bar (View > Show Filter Bar), you’ll see the [...]
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RoboNews
20-12-2010, 11:24 PM
Today’s presets come to you from, well, the weather. Not that we have it bad here in Tampa, Florida. It’s actually refreshingly cool out so I always [...]
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RoboNews
25-12-2010, 03:45 AM
Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I wanted to take a quick moment to say thanks to everyone that stops by my blog from time to time. You’ve given [...]
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RoboNews
31-12-2010, 04:31 PM
Happy New Year everyone (well almost anyway). I figured a good way to start things off, was to turn it over to the request lines. Over the [...]
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RoboNews
04-01-2011, 10:32 AM
I gotta tell ya, today’s presets are an awesome way to kick off the first post of the new year. Honestly, I think they’re going to be [...]
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RoboNews
08-01-2011, 01:22 AM
Here’s a few news items and a Lightroom tip at the bottom. Have a great weekend! *Grab a limited spiral bound edition of the Lightroom 3 Book [...]
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RoboNews
10-01-2011, 07:30 PM
I’m always dissecting “looks” that I see in photos, and I’ve seen this one for a while now. I named it Wedding Day because that’s mostly what [...]
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RoboNews
12-01-2011, 08:42 PM
Today’s tip is from one of the comments on Monday’s “Wedding Day” preset post. Blog reader Nick Noble, left me a comment about installing presets and a [...]
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RoboNews
15-01-2011, 10:00 AM
Here’s a few Lightroom related links and news, and a Lightroom tip at the bottom. Have a great weekend! *Here’s a very clever video and plug-in that [...]
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RoboNews
18-01-2011, 12:30 AM
A couple of week’s ago, I posted about some awesome calendar print presets created by blog reader Ed Weaver. Well, another blog reader (Thomas Ljungberg) was kind [...]
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RoboNews
22-01-2011, 01:20 AM
Hey there. Hope your Friday is going well. Here’s a few things to check out while you’re surfing around. *Nik Software has announced Silver Efex Pro 2 [...]
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RoboNews
27-01-2011, 07:57 AM
A while back I traveled to Dubai and realized I never changed the time/date on my camera. As a result, all of the capture times of my [...]
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RoboNews
28-01-2011, 10:01 PM
It’s time for another round of Lightroom Q&A’s. Don’t forget that today is the last day to grab your free issue of Photoshop User magazine compliments of [...]
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RoboNews
31-01-2011, 08:00 PM
Who knew that Ed Weaver would have started such craziness when it came to his Calendar print presets for Lightroom. Seriously though, thank God he did because [...]
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RoboNews
01-02-2011, 08:13 PM
Hey folks. I figured I’d give you a quick update on where I’ll be teaching over the next couple of months in case you can make it [...]
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RoboNews
07-02-2011, 07:30 PM
Hey there! I just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone who came out to my Austin “Photoshop for Photographers” seminar on Friday. The city pretty [...]
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RoboNews
10-02-2011, 09:40 PM
You may not have heard but there’s a soft proofing plug-in available for Lightroom 3. You can find it over at Lightroom-Plugins.com. When Lightroom 3 came out, [...]
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RoboNews
12-02-2011, 10:12 AM
Here’s a few news tidbits and links for you: *Some of you may remember my post when I asked for your thoughts on sharpening in Photoshop and [...]
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RoboNews
12-02-2011, 10:12 AM
I mentioned a few reviews of my Layers book on the post above. Thought I’d share this promo video that I created for the book in case [...]
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RoboNews
16-02-2011, 10:30 AM
Calling all Houston Lightroom fanatics. I’ll be taking the Lightroom 3 Live Tour to Houston next month on March 9th and I invite you to come spend [...]
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RoboNews
18-02-2011, 07:04 PM
Here’s a few links and a quick tip to close out the week. Have a great weekend everyone! *I found an older video that’s still very cool [...]
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RoboNews
21-02-2011, 09:40 PM
I was looking through my notes for my upcoming Lightroom seminar in Houston next month and I got an idea for today’s topic. One of the things [...]
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RoboNews
24-02-2011, 04:41 AM
If you’re into HDR photography and you’re like me, you’ve got a lot of HDR photos sitting around that you’ll never do anything with. Especially the in-between [...]
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RoboNews
25-02-2011, 06:03 PM
Happy Friday everyone! I’m in Denver, CO right now with Scott Kelby and we’re getting ready for a couple days of shooting snowboarders and skiers with adventure [...]
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RoboNews
02-03-2011, 07:00 PM
Last week I posted an HDR video tip (link) that happened to use the Painter tool as a quick way to apply a setting to your photos. [...]
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RoboNews
06-03-2011, 12:40 PM
Here’s some quick news and a tip: First up, don’t forget I’m teaching the Lightroom 3 Live seminar in Houston next Wednesday March 9th. There’s still [...]
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RoboNews
08-03-2011, 01:24 AM
Today, we (Scott Kelby and I) launch a brand new live industry talk show called The Grid. We’ll cover all topics in the industry around photography, Photoshop, [...]
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RoboNews
10-03-2011, 02:02 AM
I’m in Houston, TX getting ready for my full day Kelby Training Lightroom seminar tomorrow. I always get a little anxious the night before, especially since I [...]
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RoboNews
16-03-2011, 09:26 PM
Had a great time teaching here in the Netherlands at Professional Imaging 2011. You can see a behind the scenes video from Frank Doorhof here (link). I’ll [...]
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