The weekend sale – 40% off!
What else needs to be said … ? Take 40% off everything in the shop! NOW is the time to get the goods! Discount applied at checkout. The X-Equals Big Box now only $23.99 Get everything you see below for only $23.99. This is the best deal we offer. A complete platform for rocking your workflow and getting creative. If you [...]
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29. December 2011
DVD/Download Review – Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond
So, the holiday season has breezed right past, and surely that passing storm dropped off more than a few copies of Lightroom. You may be a new Lightroom user that has stumbled across X-Equals in an effort to further educate yourself in the arcane arts of Lightroom. You might have bought a copy of Lightroom [...]
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9. November 2011
Gear Review – Optech Pro Strap
Anybody who owns a heavy camera knows the painful feeling in the neck and shoulders after hauling it around for a whole day. The first thing that many beginners struggle with is finding a comfortable way of carrying their camera for hours on end so they can enjoy taking photographs. This is where the Optech [...]
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20. October 2011
$19.99 – XeL – Black and White Toolkit
We’re so amped to bring you another innovative addition to the XeL Family! Sample image from XeL: Black and White Cold Storage Films XeL:Black and White is the culmination of a year’s worth or research, analysis, development and testing – representing a major milestone release in support of the innovative X-Equals XeL platform. XeL:Black and White [...]
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13. October 2011
Creating Panorama’s with Lightroom
A little while ago I did a panoramic stitch of Rotterdam covered in beautiful hazy autumn light. Since I received a lot of positive responses and even a few question on how I did it, I’ll be explaining the process of making a panoramic photo using this photo as an example: {click on the image to [...]
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5. October 2011
X-Equals HD Screencast – The PageDowner Technique
Welcome to our first X-Equals Screencast … coming at you in HD! Today we’re going to look a a lesser know feature that has been around since version 1.0 of Lightroom, and although I personally do not use it that often, it’s a great image inspection technique! Have you got a rocking timesaving tip? Share [...]
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13. September 2011
The Photographers Toolbox – Lightroom Keyboard Tips
Lightroom is all about good, organized workflow practices that are easy and efficient to use. Whether you’re a working photographer faced with the task of selecting and editing from thousands of photos before a deadline or an enthusiastic amateur wanting to maximize shooting time, Lightroom offers a few useful ways to speed things up. Of [...]
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30. August 2011
Installing Presets in Lightroom
It has been a while since we have looked in depth at the process of installing Lightroom presets. Recent operating system upgrades (especially OS X Lion) have caused preset locations to change and/or become hidden from normal view. When we wrote up the documentation for of our currently available presets, we were primarily using Windows XP [...]
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27. July 2011
Shoot it Retro – Using Manual Focus Lenses
As many of you all know, I am a film shooter. I absolutely love the feel of the old, mechanical cameras in my hands. Everything is manual, from exposure, focusing to advancing the frame. There is a certain magic in the old processes for me. However, as much as I love film, I love the conveniences [...]
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7. July 2011
Lightroom Slideshows – learning what matters
One of Lightroom’s lesser used features is the Slideshow module. If you’re like the vast majority of Lightroom users, you probably spend most of your time in the Library and Develop modules, perhaps occasionally going into the Print module. The Slideshow module is often overlooked which is a pity because it has a number of useful [...]
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