Lightroom Tuesday!
22 September 2009
Welcome to Lightroom
Tuesday. W00t!
This weekly post is aptly named, as each Tuesday I
gather together the best presets, tips, tricks,
tutorials from the Lightroom-o-sphere and post them
for you, meus queridos.
- So hows Lightroom doing against its competition? And by competition I actually mean two things: 1) Apterture and 2) Bridge/ACR. Turns out pretty good. PS. Yes, I lump Bridge/ACR as a competitor. This was the de-facto standard before the enlightening. Back when Adobe didn’t get the whole Raw thing yet. Back when we cobbled together workflows with all kinds of tools based on expediency, company politics and shrugs from the poor users who had to suffer because of the former two. I do not miss those days.
- The Library module has lots of cool views besides grid. You should know them. As the ghost of christmas present said: get to know me better man!
- Matt K does a demo of shooting tethered (ahem) with a WiFI card from Eye-Fi. At least with SD based cameras. PS. I’ve seen CF card adapters that I’m told work in Pro bodies. P.S.S If you’re a smugger, look here. Eye-Fi is a few doors down from SmugMug.
- Frederick Van has posted an interview with Katrin Eismann, author, educator and author. She’s been a godsend to Adobe and helped me meet several good friends.
- Its update season for Lightroom, so here is a tutorial for those of you who’ve never updated before... Hey, there might be a few of you.
- Matt K’s tip for this week is about updating presets with new settings. Read up!
- Tablets. Love em or hate em (I’m in the latter camp - and I’ve sure tried to like em), there are many who swear by them. Here is a fun little discussion from some Wacom guy on imaging and tablets.
- Smart Objects in Photoshop. I’ve never bothered to figure them out. Oh, I know there are lots of cool stuff you can do with them. All those fuzzy promises are rattling around somewhere in the back of my head. X-Equals sure tries to convince me to give them a try again...
- Laura Shoe still has some spots in her Seattle Lightroom workshops.
- How to use a gray card with Lightroom. I actually get asked this a lot.
- Well that is it for today. So time to stand up,
go outside and press that shutter button some. Do
that enough, it will come unstuck.
- Cheers!