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The content on this web site was
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02 April 2008
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2 April 2008
- Regular readers of this site will recall that it was one of the
first to preview a new groundbreaking digital imaging application
from Adobe Systems called Lightroom, that was back on
9 January 2006.
Before you write to tell me that other similar applications predated
Lightroom, I know, I've used them. So, when I write "groundbreaking"
I mean that up until Lightroom no major developer had released a
"Public Beta" of a brand new "application" with the express aim
of allowing the user base to influence its development and direction.
Well, here we are again with probably one of the first previews of
the next version of Lightroom. As with Lightroom 1.0 I have already been involved with Alpha testing
version 2.0 for some months, but now it's your turn to kick the
tyres and let Adobe know what you think
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Public
Beta
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15 March 2008
- Adobe Lightroom 1.4 update has been released and fixes an issue
that was causing significant colour matching difficulties for folk
using older printers from Epson, Canon and HP with Mac OSX 10.5
(Leopard). In particular, prints from Lightroom should now match
those from Photoshop CS3. My
Lightroom print tutorial
has been amended accordingly.
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13 March 2008
- Some readers may have notice a slight disruption to the site
content over recent days. This was due to the content being
transferred to a new and hopefully faster server. Now that the
transfer is complete I have managed to upload a small gallery of
images from my recent photo shoot in
Grand Teton and
Yellowstone National Parks.
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23 February 2008
- Not long after publishing the Lightroom print tutorial it became
apparent that many Lightroom users were still experiencing some
difficulties when using custom media profiles. As I was away from
home on a photographic shoot I was unaware of the problem and the
workaround that was found by some users on the Adobe Lightroom
User-to-User forum. Since I am now aware of both the problem and
workaround I have
updated
the tutorial. Hopefully, it proves useful to those of you who
have been having problems. Note that the information provided is
ALL that I know, so please do not send me emails asking for
further information or complaining because it doesn't work for you.
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19 February 2008
- Today is the first birthday of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
and to mark the occasion Jeff Schewe asked a few friends "where
were you on" 19th February 2007. It also turns out that
Photoshop version 1.0 also shipped on the same day in 1990.
So where was I? Same place as Jeff and most of the other Lightroom
Alpha test team:
Ships Diary - 19th February 2007
Location - Antarctic Peninsula
The early risers were treated to golden light as we passed
through the Gerlache Straight. After breakfast we headed into the
Lemaire channel not knowing the treats that were to follow. After
having navigated our way through the channel we dropped anchor in
Pleneau Bay (aka the Iceberg Graveyard).
With Rob our trusty and slightly crazy boatman Michael
Reichmann, Jeff Schewe, Seth Resnick, Bill Atkinson, John Paul
Caponigro, Stephen Johnson, Kevin Raber, Chris Sanderson and myself
climbed aboard the lead Zodiac.
Stephen Johnson had brought his trusty Mini ColorChecker card,
but Jeff Schewe wanting to be doubly sure of the correct white
balance brought a ColorChecker and multiple grey cards (belt and
braces <g>).
The waters in Pleneau Bay are quite shallow, so any icebergs
that find their way in quickly become stuck thus presenting
photographers with the perfect opportunity to capture their amazing
shapes and colours.
I've uploaded a small
Flash gallery of images that illustrate above text.
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10 February 2008
- I have just returned from a photo shoot in Yellowstone and Grand
Teton National Parks. This was my second winter visit to the parks
and due to the very different weather conditions I managed to capture
many images that escaped me on my previous visit. Due to other
commitments it will probably take me a few weeks pull together a
gallery of images. In meantime, I have posted two shots (found on the
site Index and Home pages).
The first entitled
Hayden Valley Tree
was taken in Yellowstone at the end of very long and cold snow
coach journey in less than perfect photographic conditions (wind and
heavy snow fall). In fact, we had almost given up on any chance of a
shot when the weather eased and the subtle contours of the Hayden
Valley began to appear. Immediately, eight photographers piled out of
the snow coach and grabbed as many shots as the brief interlude in
wind and snow would allow. The image is presented in monochrome,
which I think is more in keeping with how the scene appeared.
The second image was taken at the
Snake River Overlook
just as the sun began to rise. The scene was made famous by Ansel
Adams with his 1942 image entitled
The Grand Tetons and Snake River. Alas, the curve in the
river that makes Adam's shot so strong is now obscured by trees, so
today's photographers try to come up with their own interpretations.
In my case I didn't even try, I shot with morning light on the Tetons
using a 28mm wide angle lens on my Canon EOS 5D.
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20 January 2008
- The various signature images and Flash Gallery from my February
2007 trip to the
Southern Ocean
and Antarctic Peninsula can now be accessed from a single
page rather than a multiple links spread throughout the site.
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29 December 2007
- A software developers worst nightmare has to be shipping a
product at or around the same time as a major update to one of the
operating systems it supports. Well, that's what happened with Adobe
when they released Lightroom 1.3 a few weeks after Apple shipped Mac
OSX 10.5 (aka Leopard). Matters were made worse because Leopard
required new printer drivers, which are only now becoming available.
Even so, there appears to a lot of confusion as to how the new
Leopard compatible drivers from Epson should be configured when using
Lightroom. To help reduce the confusion I have posted
a tutorial that describes
how both Lightroom and the new Epson drivers can be successfully used
together with Leopard.
- I have also updated the
Photoshop CS3 printing tutorial to include details of the
print driver setting for Leopard.
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18 November 2007
- The Lightroom 1.3 review
has been updated to include a screenshot of the new Export dialog
after it's been adapted by the SDK to support the Flickr photo
sharing service.
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15 November 2007
- Adobe has today released Lightroom 1.3 and Camera Raw 4.3. Apart
from support for newly released camera from Canon, Nikon, et al this
latest version of Lightroom contains quite a few bug fixes and some
feature enhancements. You can find out more in my
short review.
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6 November
2007
- I thought it was time to refresh the signature images. As with
the previous set this new pair were taken during my trip to
Antarctica in February of this year (it seems like a lot longer). The
first image was from the series I shot when in
South
Georgia and the second at
Neko
Harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula. The previous signature
images can still be seen by scrolling down to
23 August on this page.
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5 November 2007
- When Apple released
OSX 10.5
(Leopard) back on 26 October it didn't take long before some
quirky behaviour began to emerge. To be fair, any new Operating
System will have teething problems, some more painful than others.
Anyway, one such problem effects JPEGs that have been edited in some
way in Adobe Lightroom. So what is the problem? You can read all of
the gory details at
LightroomNews.Com
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1 November 2007
- A few days ago while reviewing a series of images from my trip to
the South Atlantic and
Antarctica I noticed that somehow I had incorrectly
identified the location of the Cloud Patterns image. The correct
location is actually the
Ross
Glacier in Royal Bay and not the Nordenskjold Glacier in
Cumberland East Bay.
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30 August 2007
- Anyone reading the
Adobe User to User forums, especially the Photoshop forums,
will probably have observed that some folk love keyboard
shortcuts, others hate them and an in between group would just like
to know what the fuss is all about. It's for this latter group that I
have posted updated versions of Adobe Bridge CS3 and Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom keyboard shortcut documents. These pdf
documents were first made available as part of my Lightroom 1.1
review, but can now be downloaded without having to wade through the
review. The Lightroom documents also include information on search
rules plus a few minor corrections. To download a pdf simply click
the appropriate icon.
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23 August 2007
- Two new signature images have been added. Both images were
taken during my trip to Antarctica in February. The first is of a
Castellated Berg
at sunset shot somewhere close to the Danger Islands. Anyway,
exact location is unimportant, enjoy the image. The second image is a
monochrome rendering of an early morning cloud pattern that
formed over the
Ross Glacier in Royal Bay, South Georgia. The two previous
signature images taken on South Islands can be viewed at the
following links -
Sunrise Royal Bay and
Shipwreck Ocean
Harbour.
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21 August 2007
- As noted in my review of Lightroom 1.1 it is possible to
define customised default settings for images shot with specific
cameras and/or ISO ratings. My tutorial
Customising Default Settings
describes how this can be achieved.
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30 June 2007
- My overview of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 appears to
have been well received with many messages of thanks being received.
However, a few readers have asked why I haven't mentioned Lightroom's
ability use GPS metadata embedded within images, especially to link
up with Google
Earth Maps. OK, and even though it's not a new feature, I
have put together a few words on GPS
tagging and Voice Annotations (yes, you read right - voice
annotations).
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27 June 2007
- As an pre-release tester of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 and 1.1
I've always had the opportunity to checkout new features well in
advance of most users. With the 1.1 update now in the public domain
I've posted an overview of
Lightroom 1.1 which hopefully provides an insight into the
new features and enhancements. Note that there are many
screenshots, so the page may well take a while to fully load.
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9 June 2007
27 June 2007
to reflect new menu options in Lightroom 1.1
- With all the buzz around about the up coming release of Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom V1.1 we could be forgiven for ignoring some of
the issues many users face with V1.0. One such issue recently raised
its head again on the Adobe Lightroom User to User forum and to my
surprise none of the regular forum users seemed up to providing an
answer. So, I've written a short tutorial called
Locating Missing
Files and Folders.
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15 May 2007
- Swedish readers will pleased to note that Lars Ekdahl has
completed his
Swedish language translation of my Photoshop CS3 Colour
Management essay.
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7 May 2007
- Photoshop CS3 has many new and advanced features that will
benefit photographers of all skill levels. However, these features
aren't a lot of good if your prints don't match the screen or on
opening a document or an alert pops up to tell you that there's a
profile mismatch or worse. Not to worry, I have updated my
Colour Management essay and
Printing tutorials
to reflect the changes/improvements made in CS3.
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20 March 2007
- Due to very high bandwidth demand for the
Antarctica and Southern Ocean images it has been necessary to
relocate the gallery to a separate server. Hopefully, the new
location will be temporary and doesn't present too much
inconvenience. Since the gallery is in the form of a Flash Gallery
(created in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) I have little ability to
include hyperlinks back to this site, therefore to return to the main
site just press the browser back button.
- Speaking of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom I'm going to take the
liberty of promoting a series of video tutorials my colleague
Michael Reichmann of Luminous Landscape. In this series of 8
videos (6 released to date), which runs for something excess of 4
hours, Michael and co-presenter Jeff Schewe cover just about
every aspect of Lightroom. Viewers will learn a lot and may even have
a few laughs for free as Michael and Jeff discuss some of their more
humorous moments and experiences during the alpha and beta cycle.
More information can be found at
Luminous Landscape Please note that I have no commercial
interest in the Lightroom tutorials, but that doesn't stop me wishing
I had <g> - they are excellent in terms of presentation and at $14.95
provide superb value for money.
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27 February 2007
- I've just returned from a photo shoot in the Southern Ocean and
Antarctica with the best part of 7000 images to sort, edit, etc
through. Rather than wait for this exercise to be completed and since
the site hasn't been updated in a couple of months I have put
together a quick and dirty
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Flash Gallery that contains a small
sample of the type of subject matter captured. Places visited
included the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Orkney and the
Antarctic Peninsula.
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15 November 2006
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11 November 2006
- The home and index pages have been updated to include images from
my trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone last February.
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25 September 2006
- Every two years the movers and shakers of the photographic world
make their way to Cologne in Germany for Photokina. Traditionally
this is the event where the industry announces new and improved
products and this year will no doubt follow tradition. So, given its
importance in the photographic calendar Adobe Systems Incorporated
have decided to use it as the platform from which to announce
availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4 (edit: notice
the name change). As a beta tester I've been privileged to be using
Beta 4 for a couple of months now and have put together a short
review, which is available from
here.
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22 August 2006
- The Lightroom-Photoshop-Lightroom "round-trip" appears to be
causing some users a few headaches on the colour management front,
therefore I've provided a short tutorial explaining how
Photoshop Colour Settings
should be configured so as to eliminate the Profile Mismatch dialog
that appears to be annoying so many users..
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21 July 2006
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18 July 2006
- The wait is finally over for Windows user can now get to "play"
with Adobe Lightroom - read more about it
here
- I've also taken the opportunity to update the
Beta 3 review for Mac
to include a method for creating pseudo-versions or renditions using
the History panel.
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17 July 2006
- With the introduction of Beta 3 Adobe Lightroom appears to be
gaining the attention of more digital photographers than earlier
betas. Even so many important features are still not available, which
for some makes the task of using the application a lot less
attractive than it should be. The two features most requested relate
offline/online image storage plus synchronising the image library
across multiple computers. A short tutorial called
Creating a Unitary
Library & Managing Off-line Images is now available.
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28 June 2006
- Apple have just released
Mac
OSX 10.4.7 update. If you're using Photoshop 9.01 and
experiencing the printing problems discussed in the article I posted
on 27 May then I suggest
that you download a copy.
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25 June 2006
- Nothing special in this update, just a few minor tweaks to the
Home page and removal of old material. Also, keep an eye out for an
update to the Photoshop CS2 Colour
Management essay as I'll shortly be adding some guidance on
saving images for the web.
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13 June 2006
- Adobe has just announced availability of
Lightroom Public Beta 3.
Having been privileged to use this version in various guises over
this past few months I'm able to give readers of this site a fairly
comprehensive summary of the new and enhanced feature set.
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6 May 2006
- An updated version of the Eye-One
Display 2 review has been uploaded. This review reflect my
thoughts on the new features, which were added as part of the version
3.6 upgrade to Eye-One Match.
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26 March 2006
- Imagine a scenario where you have just inserted keywords and
descriptions into hundreds of images using Adobe Bridge. Having done
so you need a quick way of finding any that may have been missed, but
then you discover that the Bridge Find cannot be used to locate
images with empty IPTC fields. No problem, where there's a will
there's a way. I have updated the
Bridge & Camera Raw - Tips
and Tricks tutorial to include a description of how to find
such images.
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13 March 2006
- It's just over a month since I posted the first images from my
trip to Yellowstone National Park. So, I thought it time to refresh
the site entry pages with new images. These two new images were
captured fairly early in the morning, when the sun was still quite
low in the sky and temperatures were well below freezing.
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19 February 2006
- A short tutorial describing a method by which you can create
Manual Collections in
Adobe Bridge has been uploaded. This tutorial aims to address
one of the areas that many users feel Bridge falls short on (i.e. the
ability to create virtual copies of their images).
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12 February 2006
- In late January through early February 2006 I was privileged to
participate in a photographic expedition to the Grand Teton and
Yellowstone National Parks in the USA. A small selection of images
from the trip can be found
here.
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8 February 2006
- It's a month now since Adobe released the public beta of
Lightroom. During the intervening period I had the opportunity to put
it through its paces under field conditions on a 12" Apple PowerBook
with 1.25GB of ram. As mentioned late last month I was going on
a photo shoot to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in USA.
Anyway, Lightroom performed beyond expectations for a beta. As a
taster I've posted two images from the shoot to the
Index and and Home
pages.
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18 January 2006
- I'll be heading off to the USA on a photo shoot shortly and won't
be returning until 5 February, so there won't be any new material
until I return. In the meantime I've created a new tutorial called
Bridge & Camera Raw - Tips
and Tricks. This tutorial draws in material from earlier
tutorials but also includes a new tip on how to create Collections
that can used to easily display only images that match specific
criteria (eg. sRGB, portrait format, etc).
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9 January 2006
- I received an enquiring email last Friday from a reader. So
what's the buzz on this new Lightroom application from Adobe,
it's all over the Mac rumour sites". Needless to say I didn't respond
;-) OK, so it's now just after midnight on 9th January 2006 and the
NDAs are lifted. So, here's the
Buzzzzzzzzz on Adobe Lightroom!
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