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Link Party – Grab a drink and dig in …

I was cleaning up my laptop the other day in anticipation of my Lightroom 3 upgrade and I ran across a big hunkin’ list of bookmarks so let’s have a good old fashion Link Party! There’s a good mix of Photoshop, Lightroom, and shooting tips in here along with a bunch of free downloads and inspirational [...]

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Lightroom Speed Tips – Fast, Fun, Easy

We were discussing some of our favorite Lightroom tips with some fellow photographers this weekend and we were reminded of our Tip ‘O The Week series we tucked away in the X=101 Category. Rather than keep things as a bunch of mini-posts, and in the spirit of making things EASIER for everyone to access and reference [...]

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X-equals.com + Digest – The Final Sneak Peek

We’ve been having a blast getting all the content ready for our second installment of the X-Equals + Digest. For those of you that haven’t yet signed up, you’re still in luck, because today we’re releasing the second issue here as well so you can see EXACTLY how we’re mixing things up! And remember, there’s a free [...]

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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Beth Jansen

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for getting great images using [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 2 of 2

Last time we briefly covered scanning photos in such a way that will produce great results when performing further editing in Lightroom.  Today we are going to look at the process of working with these scanned files in Lightroom, laying out my personal workflow and some tips that I have discovered over the past few [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 1 of 2

If you’re like me, you probably have a few shoe boxes full of old negatives from the days before digital.  Well, if you are like me, you probably have a shoebox full of negatives from last month. Whichever your situation may be, you probably would like to get those old images digitized for print or web.  [...]

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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Michelle Moore

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for getting great images using [...]

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Fully Documented – Lightroom 2.0

Despite our great shortcut lists, quick tips, and exhaustive Lightroom tutorials, sometimes you just want the darn manual! (4.4MB – PDF) Adobe online help is great – but not so portable … so if you missed the link above … get … it … HERE (4.4MB – PDF) |Brandon Oelling x=photography+consulting – technology. leadership. commitment.

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Lightroom 2.0 Shortcuts – Cheat Sheet

We’ve updated our popular Lightroom Cheat Sheet to include changes introduced in Lightroom 2.0 We’ve highlighted in x=purple those updates, additions, or otherwise undocumented shortcuts relative to our previous Cheat Sheet. For those of you that have the pre-2.0 version please download this new version for all the juicy updates – included on one page for [...]

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Proportional Exposure Management

I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it … I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but I never really though of Quick Develop as a valuable part of my workflow … until [...]

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