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September 07 2008
I just thought I would post an excerpt from my latest newsletter on the improvements in Lightroom 2.0. You can download the newsletter on my website here. The newsletters are free and back issues are also available on my website... read moreLightroom eBook on Adobe Website
August 31 2008
Adobe has been kind enough to feature my Lightroom workflow eBook Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographers Workflow on the Adobe website. It is a great honor to be included with other excellent Lightroom books by such well known authors... read moreWeb Sharpening in Lightroom 2.0
August 25 2008
While the Web module in Lightroom 1.4.1 was useful, it lacked any output sharpening which would have made the large preview images a bit snappier. Many folks didn't seem to miss this feature but as a photographer who wants to... read moreAdobe Camera Profiles and Lightroom
August 18 2008
I have talked to several photographers that have asked if there is a way to preserve the look of their images as they appeared on the back of their camera once they are loaded into Lightroom. In the past, this... read moreAugust 11 2008
Yet another great little shortcut trick is switching from one folder to another by right clicking on the Filmstrip. As in the image at right I wanted to move to a folder that I had worked in recently and... read moreLightroom 2: The Digital Asset Management Tool
August 04 2008
For a number of years I have been looking for a complete Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool. A DAM tool is a piece of software that helps download, rename, backup, rate, group, catalog, filter, archive and keep track of all... read moreJuly 28 2008
I know I have covered bits and pieces of my editing process in Lightroom in several different posts. I thought I would sum it up here... I normally get back into the office, download and import the images, add metadata... read moreLightroom, MediaStorm and SoundSlides: The future of Photojournalism
July 21 2008
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Bob Sacha from MediaStorm (www.mediastorm.org) about the state of the photography industry, where it is going and how photographers can differentiate themselves from the pack - the pack which is getting huge... read moreRecovering Highlights, Histograms and your Camera
July 14 2008
In light of Steve Simon's excellent post over on the Inside Aperture blog I thought I would delve into this topic (with a little different twist). In Lightroom, it is a simple task to recover highlight information in any image... read moreJuly 07 2008
With James Duncan Davidson's article about George Jardine leaving Adobe I thought I would publish here that article on Finding Inspiration that was published in my last newsletter, enjoy. Finding Inspiration As published in the Michael Clark Photography Spring 2008... read moreJune 30 2008
One of the confusing topics I get a lot of questions about is metadata - what is really needed and where do I put what? The answer to that question is it depends. It depends on if you are a... read moreWorking Up Film Scans in Lightroom
June 23 2008
One of the great features of Lightroom is that it can work with tiff and jpeg files as well as raw files. Because of this feature, a few years ago I thought I'd try working up film scans I made... read moreJune 16 2008
Over the years as I have worked with film scans, then raw images captured with DSLR cameras one of the interesting things I have found to be true is that the more you "tweak" or adjust an image in Photoshop... read moreJune 09 2008
The Saturation and its cousin the Vibrancy slider are the two main tools one would use to saturate the colors in an image. The Vibrancy slider was one of those revolutionary tools that helped make Lightroom an indispensable tool for... read moreJune 02 2008
As professional photographers who are always in need of a good cataloging and archival strategy - we continually strive for one setup that is scalable and would work for our needs. And I think, speaking for many, we would love... read more
