Lightroom Tip and News
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 Lightroom plug-in from Ariana Falerni that allows you to preview what your photos will look like on the wall of a home (make sure you watch the video). Way cool!
The folks over at Dell are picking up the tab for a free Zinio issue of the 100 Hot Tips issue of Photoshop User Magazine. Click here to get it.
Timothy Armes has recently released a pretty major update to his Web Site Publisher Pro plugins.
And a quick tip with the Crop tool: When youre in the Develop module, youll always see that theres the Histogram panel at the top right side of the Lightroom window. Well, the histogram always changes as you make adjustments to your photos. But, did you know that if you crop your photo with the Crop Tool (press R as a shortcut to get to it) that the histogram will update as you make adjustments to the crop area? Give it a try. As you move your crop area youll see the histogram continually update to reflect only the photo inside the crop.
Speaking of the crop tool, why is it that in LR 3.3 if you crop a picture 1 x 1, then click “Previous” to do the same to the next picture, yet you want to tweak the crop, LR fumbles around and makes you click “1 x 1” again? Has anyone else noticed this?
I just saw that LR 3.3 has supposedly solved this problem.
And trying it out just now, I see that it has!
I’ve been watching the videos with great interest as I have just started to use Lightroom 3, I came over from iPhoto.
Quite often you switch over to Photoshop to edit with the tools that Lightroom does not have for those that do not own or can’t afford Photshop, can another photo editing software be used as an alternative such as Pixelmator?
Jim, to answer your question, yes. In the LR preferences, choose the “additional external editor” of choice..Piixelmator, whatever…then, when you right click an image (PC), you can choose that particular program for editing if you wish.
This is why I always crop before I spend time fiddling with the other settings on my images.
I been wanting to catalog CDs with photos that I received but not load them to my harddrive. What I did so far is to create a new catalog (CD) and do an ADD import. I also place an unique ID for each CD in the keyword tag so I can reference the photo back to the CD.
I use Minimual for the thumb picture to reduce the size of the catalog. I also discovered I need to give it time to create the thumbe picture and to scroll though the imports to make shure all the thumb pictures are created.
Now I can look thought all the pictures stored on CD. Once I located the picture(s) I need, I just look at the keyword and insert the correct CD.
Here is the link to the plugin:
http://www.arianafalerni.com/design-products-for-photographers/wall-display-guides/lightroom-3-plugin/
very interesting way to show pictures. although i didn’t see any download for any template.
i still like the project images, the client can get a better idea of the size that way.
Wow, thank you SO much for the link to my Photographer’s Wall Display Guides! For anyone who was looking for the actual product and not just the hosted sneak peak video the link to the actual product is http://www.arianafalerni.com/wall-guides
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Totally off today’s subject, have you completely stop posting to Photoshop Killer Tips? The last update was in July of 2010. I really miss it. And while we are at it, when does D-town resume?
Yep. I had to cut back on something. We’ve got a bunch of other projects that take priority, and there’s even a new show that’s going to be coming up soon. I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks