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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 [...]

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The Lightroom Painter – It’s not just for keywords!

It’s a rather tiny icon, and you probably don’t give it much thought … I know I didn’t. Yet it’s so simple and does its job so well it’s time to give this little guy a shot. Luckily for you, we’ve taken the mystery out of this hidden gem with some examples of how you [...]

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Lightroom Best Practices – Adventures in Workflow

As Summer winds down to a close here in Chicago, we’ve taken some time to reflect on the past few seasons and some of our favorite posts. These little gems are a small taste of our upcoming Best Practices in Workflow book coming out in December*. We guarantee one of the below posts will shave [...]

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Extending Lightroom – LR2/Mogrify

LR2/Mogrify is probably the absolute most useful plug-in for extending Lightroom. Timothy Armes’ plug-in was developed to utilize the ImageMagick software suite to further manipulate and edit images after you have completed editing in Lightroom as the file is exported. LR2/Mogrify allows you to extend Lightroom’s core capabilities further, allowing you to carry out functions [...]

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Snapshots – Versioning Made Easy

Snapshots in Lightroom are a little discussed feature, underappreciated and often undervalued in many a workflow. Most often, Snapshots are overlooked in favor of Virtual Copies, but in certain situations Snapshots can be useful. A Snapshot in Lightroom is like a picture of an images development settings. You can process an image, create a Snapshot [...]

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Smart Is As Smart Does – Photoshop Smart Objects

Have you ever been working up an image in Lightroom, and open it in Photoshop for final editing? Furthermore have you ever invested time in retouching said image in Photoshop only to realize that you should have processed the RAW image differently to begin with? A lot of people would just close out the image [...]

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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 [...]

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Plugins Galore – Extending Lightroom

Photography can be an expensive endeavor, regardless of it you are a professional or an enthusiast. One thousand dollars can buy you Lightroom and Photoshop, with about enough money left over to buy a lunch or two. Then if you decide to add on some great plug-ins to these pieces of software, you can blow [...]

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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 [...]

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