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In my previous post, about factually-incorrect hype of a photo-editing application that claimed it provided "Layers in Lightroom", I noted that an idea had come to me to almost actually provide "Layers in Lightroom". I had a proof-of-concept version out to friends that evening, but it's taken a couple of days to spiff it up [...]
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If you're not really into digital photography, you may have never heard of Scott Kelby, but he's quite the media dynamo in the on-line digital-photography world. He founded a Photoshop user's club some years ago, and seemingly has never rested since. As an example of his business savvy, rather than launching the club with a [...]
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DEC 2011 UPDATE: the "v3" camera profiles mentioned below have now been supersceeded by "v4" profiles mentioned here, available with Lr3.6. If you shoot with a Nikon D3, D700, or D300, and use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you'll want to know about the "Camera v3" beta camera-calibration profiles described in this Adobe-forum thread. (The actual [...]
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I've finally pushed out a public version of the faux photo mat builder that I mentioned a month ago: It's been a ridiculous amount of work to build, and then almost an equal amount of work to write up the presentation. I have no idea why I spend so much time on something that few [...]
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The Problem The room I use as my office at home has a layout not good for much of anything but the bedroom it was designed to be, but space is always tight in Japan, so one makes do as best one can. In this case, my desk is "floating" (not up against a wall [...]
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This post is a request for ideas from Photoshop-savvy folk, about how to best approach a particular Photoshop issue I'm facing. So, I'm working on a Photoshop CS5 script to generate photo-realistic fake matting around an image, for when you want to display a print on the wall, but don't want to go to the [...]
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An article I read today included the author's speculation that: "the Verizon iPhone is expected to add a few more billion dollars to Apple's bottom line" "A few more billion dollars" would be big money to me, but it's probably not all that big a deal to a company the size of Apple (the 2nd [...]
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I've just pushed a major update to my Picasa Face-Data Import plugin for Adobe Lightroom so that it now uses new plugin features of Lightroom 3 to maintain real keywords for the names associated with images. It's much less kludgy than the version for Lightroom 2, but using Picasa on images in your Lightroom catalog [...]
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I've just published a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, the JPEG Export Quality Tester that I mentioned in last summer's "An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings". The plugin allows you to quickly generate and inspect versions of an image at all the JPEG quality settings that Lightroom offers. I'd written the plugin quite [...]
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I recently replaced a six-year-old low-end Dell monitor with an Eizo FlexScan SX2462W, a widescreen mid-level monitor with many good features for photo work. Having moved from this setup to one now with two widescreen monitors, I decided to put the extra monitor on its side, vertically, so that the long edge is up and [...]
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In my "Namiko Candid Bride Portrait" post the other day, I mentioned that I'd made a photo book for my brother-in-law Shogo's wedding, and showed a two-page spread of a photo of his bride that I was proud of. You can see in the last photo of that post a bit of the 80-page book [...]
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FYI, I've updated my Photoshop Calendar-Template-Building Script page with pre-built calendar Photoshop files for 2011, for those who can't (or don't want to) run the script to build custom calendars. If you can run the script (should work in Photoshop CS2 or later), you can run it to build customized calendar pages that you can [...]
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Having my time at the computer limited by some nagging arm pain, I've been able to enjoy more of what has always been a guilty pleasure: reading for pleasure. And to my great surprise, reading on the iPad has really enhanced the experience. Overall, I've found that eReaders like those on the iPad (and Kindle [...]
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Today's post is an audio review of the "Uzu" iPad app by Anthony's 23-month-old cousin Jena, who is visiting Grandma and Grandpa at the same time we are. Jena gave this review yesterday, aged 1 year 11 months 0 days. The $0.99 iPad app Uzu (iTunes link) describes itself as "a kinetic multitouch particle visualizer", [...]
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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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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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