This is the only email address I can find for you. It’s going to be kind of
embarrassing for me, but I do need your advice.

I am a customer of yours, having bought three of your books and enjoyed them
very much, with another on order.

Also I am a Cancer patient (don’t worry I’m not asking for donations!). I
got a bone marrow/stem cell transplant and went into a coma, prompting the
doctors to tell my husband to say goodbye since I was about to die. A week
and a half later i woke up, but could only move a tiny amount. So I learned
how to do everything (i.e. walking) all over again.

Then I got Graft vs. Host, where ones body tries to reject the transplant.
This can do many bad things, including kill.

Then I got Scleroderma, another ugly disease, that disables and disfigures
before it kills. There are many different kinds of Scleroderma; apparently I
have the very bad kind. It is known as “the disease that turns to stone”
and it has spread quickly. It has manifested itself, more to the point, in
my hands.

You can probably imagine how unhappy I would be if I couldn’t do photography,
Photoshop, Lightroom; they keep me sane… I am losing the coordination and
strength and so forth in my hands, they are starting to do what they want
instead of what i want sometimes, curling inward but still unable to make a
fist, not flattening, etc.

It is my understanding I may get very large knobs on my fingers, and the
hands, as well as some organs, will actually harden. Since the coma I
cannot learn as well; I have “re-learned” the basics of photoshop five
times, through books and online classes and one weekend seminar since the
coma. I also want to learn new things, so now most of what I read ( I read
a lot) are software books, Photoshop and Lightroom. I have photoshop cs5
and lightroom 3 (Whoo hoo! very jazzed about both).

So I would appreciate any advice you can give me. I was a digital effects
artist at Disney (before getting laid off and between cancers).
Again, this is all how I keep sane.

I am a terminal patient. My doctor had been saying how amazing it was that
I was still alive. Now she doesn’t understnad how the scleroderma is moving
so quickly. I am trying to do everything I can to eke out my life and my
hands. I’ve beaten the odds so many times but it looks like my luck is,
well, lessening at best.

Please tell me how to get the most out of my hands in any way, little or
big? For instance, presets in Lightroom save hand use. BTW how do you go
down the list using your hand or fingers the least?

Although I wonder if it will still be as valid with CS5 having been such a big
change, I have ordered your CS2 Speed Clinic book.

Do you have another book to recommend?

Can you please tell me any “hand-saving” tips? These may or may not be
the same as “time-saving” tips. Or a book that may actually be hand-saving?
I can’t keep spending too much money on book after book, and again, it is
hard for me to learn, although I’ve managed to learn a lot. It is just much
more difficult and timeconsuming than before the coma. But I would buy a book
if you recommended it to me.

If you don’t have time, you owe me nothing (although I did buy your
books!), you don’t know me. I will write probably four expert authors for
help and hope one or maybe all will answer me. Thank you for reading this.

Barbara

Could you end me a copy of your CS3 snap preset. I am new to Lightroom and this would go a long way in understanding how best to use it. Thank you for your kind generosity.

Kanu

I have right here an autographed copy of “Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic” that I use all the time! Recently I had occasion to use the Menu Items feature from Chapter 3 in an action in order to have the right brush ready for the user when the action completed.

Now I’m writing another action that needs to have the right Gradient Tool ready for the user when the action completes. Unfortunately, the Menu Items feature doesn’t seem to work for the Gradient Tool, and I can’t seem to find anything in Scripting that allows me to do this.

Can you point me in the right direction to solve this problem? If so, I can have the equivalent of Lightroom’s Graduated Filter as an action for CS3. Thanks in advance…

Bill Ford

Thank you verymuch for your fine book “Layers”, in German.

With the downloaded pictures from Mr. Kelby’s website it is a
great pleadure for me to imitate your workshops.

Above all your humorous talking with me as the reader of your book
makes me laughing.

Friendly Greetings to you
from
Renate Schmidt, Kelkheim, Germany

Lightroom workflow preset

Lightroom presets for workflow. A basic starting point. First you will need your monitor calibrated. Lightroom 2. Photoshop CS3 or newer.

After working with Lightroom for about two weeks now. I found that there is a learning curve to working with develop settings and trying to find the best image. I took this up, because I was getting kind of flat looking results with lightroom only. Figured I needed a good starting base to work from.

Since I already had CS3, I took the raw file from lightroom and edited it to CS3 threw edit export. Then using curves in CS3, I used Scott Kelby’s Method of working darks, mid-tones and highlights. From there I made any final tweaks opening up curves again.

Next saved the image and went back to lightroom 2. where it showed up as a PSD file. Next, I made a virtual copy of the (raw file) original and tried to match the same exposure, colour, contrast, etc. of the psd using lightroom. Making these adjustments in the develop module, mostly using Basic and Tone curves. After getting as close as possible to the settings I had made in curves with CS3 (psd file), I used the virtual copied clone file in lightroom to make a preset.

I called this preset “CS3 snap” and use it as my base starting point in lightroom. Works pretty good and I make tweaks from there when working with a new image. I think there is room for other presets in areas like hard backlight and Black N White.

Would like to know how other lightroom users are getting consistant results. Improving processes, techniques. Those of you who leave their email, I’ll send you the preset free. Would like to know how it works for others. Jon L

I just started going through all of my images over the past years. They won’t all fit on my Macbook Pro so I decided I should link to the images on my server instead. Then I was planning on exporting any keepers to a folder on my MBP so I could have them with me all the time and track them in a separate Library.

So, I created a new Library and re-linked all of my images. But now I’ve lost all of my LR edits to the file.

Is there any way that I can transfer the processing transactions for any images with edits from one Library to another? If I export an image and have another LR Library auto-import the images, is there a way I can keep the Developer settings in those files too??

Great blog, glad I found it. THANKS.

Rich