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What we are looking for We’re currently looking for guest bloggers to develop content for the following topics: Photoshop (tips, shortcuts, tutorials, videos, workflows) Lightroom (tips, shortcuts, tutorials, videos, workflows) Digital Asset Management (file management, storage, archiving, exporting, etc.) Lightroom and Photoshop add-on product reviews Hardware reviews (data storage, scanners, cameras, lenses, best practices, etc.) [...]

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Lightroom 4 is here … and so are we.

Right on the heels of the release of Lightroom 4 … we’re proud to announce our X-equals Xel Presets are now also 100% Lightroom 4 compatible! We’ve also released a bulletin regarding more of the finite details around our upgraded versions and installation of the Presets. Thanks for your business! All of us at X-Equals [...]

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Lightroom 4 Print Module Mastery with Craig Ferguson

Some of the biggest changes that appeared with the release of Lightroom 3 were improvements to the Print module. With a large variety of templates to choose from as well as the ability to easily create custom layouts, the Print module is more useful than it’s ever been. Start by selecting the photographs that you [...]

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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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$24.99 – XeL:Black and White Toolkit

All XeL Presets are 100% Lightroom 4 Compatible! 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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