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Archive for the 'Lightroom' Category

A Few Outtakes from the Nitenji Temple
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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One More Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Sort
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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Kyoto Jidai Matsuri Photos by Stéphane Barbery
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Adobe Lightroom 3: Beta Plugin Info
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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Yet Another New Lightroom Plugin: Extended Search
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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New Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Plot
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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New Lightroom Plugin: Export-to-Photobucket
In what is almost certainly the most ridiculous thing I have ever done in my entire life, I've created an export-to-Photobucket plugin for Adobe Lightroom. I fully understand that the intersection of Photobucket users with Lightroom users is exactly the empty set, but Photobucket's API is well documented and they use a kind of authentication [...]
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New Lightroom Plugin: Export to Expono
I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, for uploading directly to Expono. This joins my other uploaders (for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, PicasaWeb, and Facebook) on my Lightroom Goodies page. There you'll also find other plugins for various tasks, such as metadata management, geoencoding, proximity search, video-asset management, etc.
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New Lightroom Plugin: Video-Asset Management
I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, Video-Asset Management, allowing a modicum of video management from within Lightroom. I spent much of the last several weeks working on a custom-metadata plugin that looked to be really great, until I ran into a Lightroom bug that totally killed the project (and my spirits). Then, [...]
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More Geekdome: Twitter OAuth Authentication Routines for Lightroom Plugins
Just to continue on the string of tech/geek posts I've had lately, a quick addendum to yesterday's "Programming in the Stone Age: SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA1 in Pure Lua", I've also published my Twitter OAuth Authentication Routines in Lua, for Lightroom Plugins in case anyone has use for it.
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Sneak Peek: New Lightroom Plugin
For the last month or so I've been working on a new Lightroom plugin that allows one to edit metadata-viewer presets (that is, to adjust to their liking the list of photo-info items that Lightroom displays; an in-Lightroom version of the web-based preset editor that I built a couple of years ago). What the plugin [...]
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Kyoto Cherry-Blossom Preview, 2009
So, I've still got my cold, although it's finally starting to get better. Hence, fairly light posts lately, and this one is no exception. It's a collection of photos from the same April 5th stroll last year that produced Cherry-Blossom Full Bloom Hits Kyoto and Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre in Kyoto, as well as the [...]
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Lightroom Plugin Development: What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work
I do a lot of Lightroom-related development. I don't get paid for it, but I'm a geek and I really enjoy it. In case you're familiar with Lightroom, but not with what I've provided, here's a bit about what I've done... Well, that's enough of tooting one's own horn... you get the picture. I don't [...]
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Lightroom Plugin: Run-Any-Command Export Filter
Well, the Lightroom plugin that I released yesterday was mostly a waste of time, but a commenter reminded me that I still hadn't written a "Run Any Command" plugin for Lightroom 2, to complement the piglet of the same name that I released for Lightroom 1 just over a year ago. So, I put my [...]
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Lightroom Plugin: Catalog Preview-Image Extraction Tool
Well, if anyone needed convincing just how much of an idiot I am, here it is.... I spent half my time last week being sick with a cold, and the other half working on a new plugin for Lightroom that I knew I'd never use myself, nor would it be of any interest to most [...]
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Today’s Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen
This evening we had perhaps the most stunning sunset I have ever seen. Sadly, I saw it from the photographically-unappealing vantage of the fifth-floor walkway in my condo, but at least I got to see it. When I first caught a glimpse, I literally sprinted for the elevator, and the photo above is the first [...]
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Finally, Geoencoding in Lightroom! Announcing my GPS-Support Plugin
The screenshot above shows how I geoencoded the images in yesterday's post about a train and boat ride. Introduction Today I'm releasing a beta version of a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, "Jeffrey's GPS Support", that adds support for Geoencoding photos from within Lightroom. There are more features yet to add, but it's already polished [...]
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Serendipitous Fun with Adobe Lightroom
This evening, I've been testing some new code in my Lightroom export plugin for SmugMug that deals with replacing images already uploaded to SmugMug. In order to be able to quickly see whether a new image has replaced an old one, I would first go into Lightroom's develop module and slam some random slider to [...]
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Lightroom “GPS Proximity Search” Plugin
I'm releasing today a plugin for Adobe Lightroom 2.0 or later that allows you to perform a proximity search based on the locations geoencoded into your images. This adds to my stable of Lightroom plugins listed on my Lightroom Goodies page, and is the second that's not a vanilla "export to..." plugin (the other being [...]
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Backing Up My Photos With Lightroom and Zenfolio
By far the most popular goodies for Adobe Lightroom that I've published are my export plugins, for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, Picasa Web, and Facebook. I don't use any of these services to host my own photos (I generally publish what I want here on my blog and in my photostreams), but I do use a [...]
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