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The verb "to scale" in computer science refers to a solution's ability to handle dramatically increasing demands. Filtering spam by personally inspecting each message, for example, works fine if you get only a few each day, but reaches its limits when you get hundreds a day, and becomes totally unworkable if you got thousands. Personal [...]
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I've got a lot of Lightroom-related stuff brewing that I've been wanting to release, but have been waiting for the energy to do proper writeups before doing so. But like the Tree Publisher plugin for Lightroom I released the other day, I've decided to just release things as is rather than wait indefinitely for free [...]
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I've just released as beta a new plugin, my Tree Publisher Publish Plugin, in beta. I wrote it months ago but had been waiting until I had the time/energy to write up documentation before releasing it, but the way things are going, time and energy are not in my foreseeable future. So, I'm just going [...]
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I've just posted a two-part writeup that Lightroom users may find interesting: It's joined my plugins and other Lightroom-related things on my Lightroom Goodies page.
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I really need to find a 12-step support group, or something, to help wean me off of Lightroom plugin development. I was already way behind on everything before Lightroom 3 came out, and then was inundated with email from that as I tried to get all my plugins upgraded. But then I took time out [...]
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It's been nothing but plugin development in the Friedl household since Lightroom 3 was released, mostly bringing my many plugins up to speed. Frankly, it's drudgery work, so I took time off to indulge in the simple pleasures of development: building something new. This new plugin, PhotoSafe, allows you to protect photos from accidental deletion [...]
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More than two years in the works, Adobe has finally released Lightroom 3. You can download a 30-day trial from Adobe's Lightroom product page. There are plenty of places you can find all kinds of info about what's new, including: Victoria Bampton's "What's New in Lightroom 3" post. Victoria's what's-new posts are always the most [...]
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Sneak-preview video of a lens-correction feature that will be part of Lightroom 3: Photoshop and Lightroom Lens Correction Feature Preview The video shows ACR (Adobe Camera Raw), but the presenter (Tom Hogarty, Lightroom's product manager) makes it clear that the same functionality will be part of Lr3 as well. The ability to correct for lens [...]
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So, in my previous post, "Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks", I presented a few odd tone-curve presets for Lightroom that were of marginal utility. In this post, I present additional presets that are even more useless, if that's at all possible. (If you're not familiar with tone curves in Lightroom 3 beta 2, the aforementioned previous post [...]
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The tone curve is one of the ways that Adobe Lightroom offers to adjust an image. It's basically a "brightness map" that normally indicates "dim parts of the image are shown as black, bright parts are show as white, and things in between are shown proportionally somewhere along the line between the two". The screenshot [...]
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Adobe has released a second free beta for Lightroom 3 ("Lightroom 3 Beta 2" -- Lr3b2) with a lot of bug fixes and speed improvements, and a few new goodies not found in Lr2 or the first Lightroom 3 beta, including: Basic video-file support. Initial tethered capture support for recent Nikon and Canon SLRs. New [...]
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When I started to take photography somewhat seriously (circa January 2006 when I got a Nikon D200), a long-time friend who happened to work at Apple extolled the virtues of Apple Aperture, which had just been released. It was, he said, still a bit buggy, but even so was so much better than working with [...]
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Just a short followup to last week's "Giving Up on Picasa Face Recognition" post, I've gone ahead and released the Lightroom plugin I'd built before realizing the major problems plaguing Picasa's face-recognition feature. If you've invested time in Picasa's face recognition, use Lightroom, and are lucky, the plugin may be of use. Here it is: [...]
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#post1386 { background-color: black } Nikon D3 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 42 mm -- 1/160 sec, f/4, ISO 2800 -- full exif & map -- nearby photos As I mentioned yesterday, Paul Barr and I made a return visit to the Nishimura Stone Lantern workshop today. It was more amazing than I could have [...]
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The initial destination of my photo outing with Paul Barr yesterday (the one where we discovered the workshop of Nishimura Stone Lanterns) was to visit the Nitenji Temple, nestled up in the mountains of north-east Kyoto, perched precariously over the ravine on the road over to Otsu. After the outing, we returned to my place [...]
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I've just released a new plugin, Focal-length Sort, conceptually similar to my Megapixel-sort plugin in that it fills gaps in Lightroom's Library Grid Filter that shouldn't be there in the first place. Like my Data Plot plugin, it can give you insight about how you use your lenses. This makes 19 plugins for Adobe Lightroom [...]
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Adobe today released a public beta sneak-peek version of Lightroom 3. It's intended to show where Lightroom is going, and to allow us to play with it so that we can provide feedback about how we want it to get there. It's a Beta p.h1339 { font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:30px } p.h1339 + [...]
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Having been busy with travel and sickness and offline projects for so many months, I think the geek in me was itching to produce something new, so to add to yesterday's new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, today I add another: Extended Search. Due to Lightroom infrastructure limitations, the search interface is not as smooth as [...]
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Because I have so much free time (NOT!), I've turned copious amounts of it into a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom that provides the simple but useful function of telling you what focal lengths your images were shot at. It's like a stripped down version of ExposurePlot, but integrated into the Lightroom catalog. Currently the [...]
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