Lightroom, Raw, and CS4 update

Lightroom has been updated to 2.3 and Raw 5.3
Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update

Lightroom:
PC - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4360
Mac - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4359

RAW:
PC - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4365
Mac - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4364

CS4
PC - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4292
Mac - http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4291

Tethering....

I have been wanting to tether my camera with my laptop using Lightroom and yesterday I had my opportunity.

And I would like to say WOW.

Up until now I have been using Bridge to view the images as my cameras software downloaded the images to my computer as I shot. It was workable but not efficient. I would look at the image in Bridge then if I wanted to show my client a better version I would open in Photoshop, color correct, crop, and usually add a simple curve. That all took a bit of time and my client would be over my shoulder waiting.....


But with Lightroom, you have Bridge and Photoshop all wrapped into one, plus more.

A quick rundown (you want to know exactly how email me or call) :


1. Using the camera software I would direct the image to a folder called "watchedfolder" - no changes to file name or any other changes.


2. I would have Lightroom set to auto import (watching the folder "watchedfolder"). This would move, rename the file, and add all my metadata. After the first shot I would Crop the image as I envisioned and do a custom white point. I would save that as preset (only the white point and crop) and then go back to my auto import setting and tell it to add that preset. Now for the remainder of that shoot it would crop, color correct, add my metadata, and change file name without me doing a thing.

3. On the next interior shot all I would have to do is take the shot, make any changes like crop and white point and then update the preset. From that shot on it would use the new preset as it auto imported.


Go Lightroom!

Finally - Multi-size, multi-images....

So.... One of my biggest complaints about Lightroom is the Print Module. When I print I wasn't able to multiple images with multiple different sizes on the same piece of paper until....
And although I would like to take credit, I cannot. :)

Matt made a video on his website, Lightroom Killer Tips :

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/videos/lightroom_pic_packages.m4v


The print module still has its issues for me but this may speed up my workflow. Less Photoshop and more Lightroom.

Let me know what you think.

-Paul

http://www.rockprinting.com/
http://www.weinrauchphoto.com/
http://www.weinrauchphotography.com/

finally a Lightroom Seminar in Denver by NAPP

http://www.kelbytraining.com/product/denver-co-1-1-1.html

Lightroom Cropping....

Ever wanted a different grid overlay when you were cropping or somehow it change from the original thirds grid?

press the letter "o" and it will cycle through all of the grid overlay options.

Lightroom - speeding things up....

Qucik tip to speed up Lightroom:

Goto Edit>Prefrences>File handling Tab

Increase the size, by default mine was at 1 GB. I increased mine to 20 gb (I had 50 gigs free on that particular drive.) Make sure you have plenty of room left on your system drive if you increase your cache.

-paul

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