Lightroom Tuesday!

Welcome to Lightroom Tuesday, aptly named as each Tuesday I gather together presets, tips, tricks, tutorials and the like from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them for you, my dear readers. After a week hiatus, I’m back with some great things from the past 2 weeks...

• Matt K has some great tips in his Q&A feature.
• I’ve shot street photography for years. I love shooting on the streets, although its taken a backseat to dance in the last few years. Here is an article on Profiphotos.com that talks about mimicking that street photo aesthetic. You could do it like its always been done: a Leica, a 35 or 50 MM Summicron/Summilux and some Tri-X pushed a bit. That gives you some contrast and speed so you can just hyperfocal it and be there...
• David Ziser talks about the latest Nik software package to hit LIghtroom... Here is a short look at how they work in Lightroom.
• TOP (you know what that is, n’est-ce pas?) outlines what he thinks is the best on-the-cheap workstation for photography...
• Getting red-eye? Hack. Ok, I’m kinda kidding. I can’t even remember the last time I had to use the red-eye tool because, well it happens because you don’t know what you’re doing most of the time. On-camera flash or a cheapy point/shoot. Doh! But here is a short tutorial if you’re still spreading your lighting wings...
• Lightroomers! has an interesting tip on Exporting photos from Lightroom and want to stack it next to the original.
• LIghtroom’s local adjustment brush lets you create masks, kinda. We designed it to be less in-your-face than Photoshop’s myriad of ways to add effects. Learn more here.
• Of all the questions I get about Lightroom, the big one is about how to keep yourself organized in Lightroom’s Library module. And on the hard drive. Most times, people dump and go and create an unholy mess. For those that know me, I’m not the most organized person in the world, but one should really take organization seriously when using lightroom. Here is an interesting look at how David DuChemin does it. Some sage advice.
• LRG Complete 4.1 updated. This is a web gallery engine for Lightroom.
• Sean McCormack’s new Lightroom 2 Made Easy book was released recently.
• Martin Evening has posted another video tutorial for Lightroom - this one is on creating an invert tone curve. You know, to convert a negative to a positive...
• A set of interesting Black & White presets from PresetHeaven.
• Matt K posted a video tutorial on using the Adjustment Brush and an interesting screed on the “truth” behind LIghtroom Backups. This is a known issue on the team - we talked alot about fixing the broken backup features, but it just didn’t fit in the 2.0 development timeframe. Personally I backup once a week using LIghtroom’s catalog backup feature because it has saved me once already and it isn’t a big deal.
• Adobe is doing some free eSeminars for Professional Photogs. More here.
• SlideshowPro for Lightroom was updated recently.
• A few weeks old, here is a tutorial by Martin Evening on controlling Vibrance & Saturation in Lightroom.
• Lightroom Newbie Tip - pressing the V key will quickly do a grayscale conversion. This isn’t a end-all-be-all black and white conversion, but just a way to quickly see if the picture works in monochrome...
• Here is a quick video tutorial on the Clarity slider’s effects in Lightroom.
• Another new Lightroom book: Adobe Photoshop (ugh) Lightroom 2: Streamlining your digital photography process” talks workflow.
• The Graduated Filter was a late-comer to the local adjustment toolset (we were much more focused on the brush tool) but it made it in and can be used for some interesting effects. Here is a basic look at its most common use-case.
• Why keyword? Because you can filter on them later.
• Split Toning is cool. Here is a tutorial on how to use the Split Toning panel.

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