Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 3 of 4
Welcome to Part 3 of Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom! So far in this series we have looked at the process required to organize (Part 1) and caption and filter your images (Part 2) to create a simple and easy to navigate Lightroom catalog. In this tutorial, Part 3 of the series, we [...]
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1. April 2013
Embracing the Shadows with X-Equals XeL
I’ve been shooting jazz concerts for a while now, and lately I’ve been thinking about what makes a concert shot iconic. In many cases, the viewer of a particular concert photo will have no idea who the artist is, so one way to keep the viewer interested is to express a mood – an atmosphere [...]
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5. March 2013
Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 2 of 4
In the Part 1 of this 4 part series, we had an in depth look at how to import your images from your camera into your Lightroom catalog. We looked at how by applying presets and folder structures we could start to create an easy to navigate image storage solution. In this second part of [...]
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7. February 2013
Importing and Backing Up Images in Lightroom – Part 1 of 4
This is the first installment of a 4 part series of blog posts where we will be looking at taking your images through the Lightroom 4 workflow. In this first part of the series we will be looking at how to use the Import Controls in Lightroom 4 to organize your images and create back-ups. [...]
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11. December 2012
$4.99 – The XeL:Film Booster – Vol. 2
With our current family of XeL Products, we have provided vast array of processing options to stimulate your creativity with a touch of traditional film, and today we are proud to announce another chance to squeeze more value out of the X-Equals XeL platform. Photo by Dominic Thurgood @Scatterfold – using Polaroid 667 Whether you [...]
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21. November 2012
Using the Lightroom 4 Web module – Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of this series on using the Web module in Lightroom 4 to create a serious website. In Part 1, I showed that the Web module as it’s supplied with Lightroom is simply not capable of doing the job for a professional or serious amateur photographer. Part 2 I looked at a [...]
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11. November 2012
The Drop on Floordrops
In the past few years the use and sale of floordrops, or faux floors, has increased as manufacturers recognized a need and met it. Think of them as a backdrop, but for the floor. A floordrop is similar to a backdrop, but it goes on the floor instead of behind your subject. The point, of [...]
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2. November 2012
Grab your Toga, it’s a Link Party!
We have a huge repository or photography and workflow related links … and we realized it’s high time we started sharing them! The Best Thing I Ever Did Was Quit Professional Photography The Definitive Guide To Corporate Event Photography Introduction to the Tools of Long Exposure Photography Location Photography: How to Comprehensively Capture a City, [...]
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24. October 2012
Using the Lightroom 4 Web module – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the native Lightroom Web module to see if it was usable as a way of constructing a professional web site. To say that it failed to meet my needs would be something of an understatement – it is, frankly, unworthy of the rest of the application. [...]
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15. October 2012
Using the Lightroom 4 Web module – Part 1
Just how useful is the Lightroom Web module? This is the first of a 3 part series on using Lightroom as part of a website creation workflow. Here in Part 1 I’ll cover how well (or not) the vanilla module fits into creating a real-life website based on my own personal experience. Part 2 will [...]
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9. April 2013
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