Archive for the 'Lightroom' CategoryAdobe has re-released the troubled Lightroom 1.4 now as a (hopefully) untroubled Lightroom 1.4.1. Links are here. View full post » (IMAGE: Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta) Screenshot showing some new features in action (in this case, selective-area desaturation and a post-crop vignette) I like to post right away when there's a new release of Adobe Lightroom, but alas, I've been on vacation for the last few days, and I was at the car-rental return at the Amami Ooshima Island airport when Lightroom 2.0 beta was released earlier this afternoon. The 2.0 beta has a lot of exciting new features you can read about elsewhere (links below), but the ones I'm most excited about are localized corrections (you can “paint” exposure, saturation, tint, etc.) and multi-monitor / multi-window support. [...] 
View full post » Update April 11th, 2008 Lightroom 1.4.1 has now been released to address the problems discussed below. Download links are here. Yikes, it seems that 1.4 has a bug: the “time taken” is set to midnight in copies of the file that are exported. The Lightroom database and the original files maintain the correct time, but when you export a copy (e.g. to upload somewhere), the time is reset to midnight. This is most unfortunate. I don't know whether I can work around it in the plugins. Until this is resolved, I'd recommend staying with 1.3 unless the benifits of 1.4 are worth it for you. Drat. For [...] View full post » (IMAGE: Long Escalators at the Kansai International Airport) two years ago, just after getting my Nikon D200 I'm occasionally asked about my photo and blog-writing workflow, and having just been asked twice in as many days, I thought I'd just go ahead and post about it. Unlike this post, most of my non-technical posts have a lot of photos, either to tell a story (like this) or to just share pretty photos (like this). In either case, I start with the photos. Photo Workflow My photo workflow is pretty much the same whether it's a subject I intend to blog about or not... I download the [...] 
View full post » I've just posted new versions of my Lightroom export plugins ( Zenfolio · SmugMug · Flickr · Picasa Web ) that include a new “Run Any Command” piglet. This piglet – for technically-savvy users – allows you to run any command on each exported image before it's uploaded: The piglet comes with my plugins, but it can also be used with any plugin that uses my piglet plugin-addon infrastructure. Details on the piglet, along with an example of it applying exiftool to each image, is on the Run-Any-Command Piglet's page. A few warnings about today's plugin updates: There were a number of behind-the-scenes infrastructure changes in these updates, so there may be some [...] 
View full post » The four export plugins for Adobe Lightroom that I've written – for uploading to Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, and Picasa Web – are useful, I hope, and offer lots of options and ways for the user to configure how their images are processed. If I had more time and more skill, though, the plugins could do more. So much more. For example, Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify Lightroom Export Plugin offers a lot of nice features that I wish my plugins offered, including: the ability to add watermark overlays (both text and images) the ability to add borders around images the ability to apply output sharpening [...] 
View full post » Alexander Kiel's has developed some insight into the “FormatMessageW failed” error that plagues some Windows users of Lightroom export plugins, including my export plugins for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, and Picasa Web. From his reports, the problem seems to be related to IE7 and slow internet connections. He poses a potential solution, so those running into this error are encouraged to see his writeup on the subject. View full post » When viewing a geoencoded photo – one where the location's latitude and longitude are encoded in the metadata – in Lightroom, its coordinates are displayed in the metadata panel as shown below: GPS Coordinates in Lightroom's Metadata Viewer (Well, it shows up if you're using a metadata-panel view that includes the coordinates among the items to be shown, such as “all”, but you can also use my Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder to build a customized metadata-panel view.) Clicking on the little arrow to the right of the coordinates brings up your web browser, with the location showing in Google Maps. In the case of the [...] 
View full post » Adding to my stable of export plugins for Lightroom (Zenfolio, Smugmug and Flickr), I've just released my "Export to Picasa Web" Plugin for Lightroom. I just hacked it out and it's received minimal testing by me (and no testing by anyone else), so version churn is likely at first as bugs are reported and shaken out. It comes with a French translation for all the parts that are the same as the other plugins, but the texts unique to this plugin remain in English until the French translator is able to send an update. (If you're one of the unlucky few to get the dreaded [...] View full post » The export plugins for Lightroom 1.3 that I mentioned here and here have now been released: Zenfolio Smugmug Flickr Unfortunately, I came down with a cold yesterday and I got word that I could release these just an hour before heading off to the doctor (I leave in 15 minutes), so I may have screwed up something in my rush to get these links out. We'll see. In any case, expect a lot of version churn at the beginning, as bugs are flushed out... View full post » UPDATE: You can now Download Here As I'm still waiting for word from Adobe that I can post my Zenfolio and SmugMug plugins (“frustrated” does not even being to explain my feelings on this matter), I've put the time to good use, developing a plugin for Flickr. To give a hint, here's what the export dialog looks like at the moment.... The SmugMug and Zenfolio plugins also got the ability to choose how the Title (Zenfolio) or Caption (SmugMug) is derived, as shown in the “Title / Description” section of this screenshot. The Lightroom Export-Plugin SDK includes a sample export-to-Flickr plugin, and although I [...] 
View full post » These instructions are for Lightroom versions 1.3 through 1.4.1. These instructions do not apply to Lightroom 2.0 (click for the Lightroom 2.0 announcement) (click here for Lightroom 2.0 plugin-install instructions) To install a plugin in Lightroom 2.0 In Lightroom 2.0, navigate to File > Plugin Manager to bring up the plugin-manager dialog, click on the [Add] button in the lower-left, and navigate to wherever you've place the “.lrplugin” or “.lrdevpluginin” folder for the plugin you'd like to install. As I mentioned yesterday, Adobe has released Lightroom 1.3, which now includes support for export plugins. Yesterday I described what a plugin might look like [...] 
View full post » Adobe has just released Version 1.3 of its Lightroom photo-workflow software, two months after releasing Version 1.2. You can download the new version from Adobe's Lightroom Page, or use these direct links: Mac · Windows. There's a ReadMe.pdf describing the release, and a much more detailed description by Victoria Bampton, but in short, it contains some small things: Better OSX Leopard support Bug fixes Support for a few new cameras: Nikon D3 & D300 Canon 1Ds Mark III & PowerShot G9 Olympus E-3 & SP-560 [...]
View full post » (IMAGE: Dark) While taking long exposure night shots of Itsukushima Shrine's Gate in Miyajima, the brilliant illumination was turned off, and the area became quite dark. I thought I'd give it a try with the lights off, but as you can see above, my one attempt came out completely dark. Since it was late, I didn't want to spend the time trying again for a more reasonable exposure, so we packed up and returned to the hotel. When I got home and loaded all the images into Lightroom, I intended to delete this one along with all the other rejects. More out of habit than anything [...] 
View full post » Adobe has just released a minor update to its Lightroom photo-workflow software. Version 1.2 includes some bug fixes and support for additional cameras: Canon EOS 40D Canon G9 (unofficial) Fuji FinePix IS-1 Leaf Aptus 17 Leaf Aptus 54s Leaf Aptus 75s Olympus EVOLT E-510 Panasonic DMC-FZ18 Pentax K100D Super Phase One P 20 + Phase One P 21 + Phase One P 25 + Phase One P 30 + Phase One P 45 + Sony A700 Unlike the 1.0 → 1.1 update, this free update does not contain a lot of new features other than the support for additional cameras. I've a number of different posts on (interesting?) Lightroom topics in my Lightroom category. More [...] View full post » About a month and a half ago I was futzing around with night exposures and took this 30-second picture of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. I was wondering whether I might get the really interesting results as I did during cherry-blossom season, but in this case the result was thunderously boring. (IMAGE: Boring) Maxed out sharpening controlsin Lightroom 1.1 However, it was about this time that I decided to finally start playing with the new sharpening controls in the betas I was testing for Lightroom 1.1, and for whatever reason, I used this image as my first test. Proper sharpening seems to be more an [...] 
View full post » Metadata Viewer in Adobe Lightroom 1.1 As mentioned in my previous post, Adobe has just released Lightroom 1.1, a free upgrade to their wonderful photo-workflow application. Correspondingly, I have upgraded my Custom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder, a web application that allows you to create custom metadata display configuration templates for use within Lightroom. This description is presented with Lightroom 1.1 as an example, although the config files should work in any version of Lightroom 1.x, including 1.3.1. Data Presets are selected by this control, and are unrelated to the viewer presets this post is about. This post is the introduction and documentation for my template-builder application. If [...] 
View full post » Adobe Lightroom Version 1.1 Adobe has officially announced the highly anticipated “Version 1.1” upgrade to their Lightroom photo-workflow application, four months after Version 1.0 was released. Lightroom creates a whole new world of organization and expression for photographers, one that fulfills many needs the user might not have even realized where there. Yet, once the user settles in, they find themselves invigorated into wanting even more organizational and creative functionality, and this free upgrade is a step in that direction. There are many new features in 1.1, some of which have been previewed already (including the new sharpening controls released in Adobe Camera Raw 4.1.). I'm sure there [...] 
View full post » “I think Lightroom will be to photographers what Photoshop is to photographs.” —Reid Thaler Digital Photography Review forum post May 23, 2007 This excellent quote succinctly clarifies the difference in focus between Lightroom and Photoshop. I only wish I had come up with it! View full post » Another Sunset Viewfrom our New-Year's trip, from the set shown in the post the other day When a digital camera produces a standard JPG image file, it does so after internally processing its sensor's raw data. This processing includes the mathematical application of various settings for exposure, white balance, sharpness, color saturation, and other algorithms that massage the image data in an attempt to achieve a particular look. Many cameras offer “scene” settings that can impact how this processing is done. For example, a “portrait” setting may reduce the amount of sharpening applied. Raw When shooting in a raw format, this processing is taken out of [...] 
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