Search ResultsLightroom 7.2 introduced an entirely new version of its "Auto Tone" feature, a one-click adjustment of photo brightness and contrast to hopefully-pleasing results. The prior version of Auto Tone used what might be called a "stupid, brute force" method that merely adjusted tone ranges to try find a numeric balance. It wasn't very useful. The new Auto Tone, however, is fantastic, being powered by an artificial-intelligence engine trained with thousands of hand-tweaked photos from highly-regarded artists. It does a sufficiently-good job that I now use it as part of my new-photo workflow, to give me a better starting point for [...] View full post » I've released a new plugin for Lightroom Classic (Lr6 and later) to help users wanting to sync smart collections to Lightroom's cloud ecosystem. Lightroom Classic allows syncing only normal collections, so you can't sync smart collections such as "all five-star photos" or the like. This plugin works around this restriction by allowing you to keep a set of normal collections automatically synced with your smart collections; you then add those automatically-mirrored normal collections to Lightroom's cloud. It sounds simple, but the devil's in the details... the same details, I'm sure, which caused Adobe to not support smart-collection sync in the [...] View full post » This plugin, for the Adobe Lightroom Classic desktop application, is intended to effectively allow smart collections to be used with Lightroom CC (also known as "Lightroom Mobile", "LrMobile", or "Lightroom in the Cloud"), which is otherwise limited to normal (non-smart) collections. With this plugin, you can, for example, effectively have an "All Five-Star Photos" album, or a "Most-Recent Week's Photos" album, etc., sourced from your Lightroom Classic catalog, synced to all your Lightroom CC cloud devices, all kept up to date automatically. The plugin does its work by automatically creating a "companion" normal collection for each smart collection, and keeping [...] View full post » This picture is from the same snowy outing almost two years ago that produced the three-part "Kyoto At Night During a Heavy Snow" posts (part 1 - part 2 - part 3). This shot mimics the one that leads Part 2, but this one was taken five hours later (at 4:42am) after the snow had long stopped falling. Anyway, it's just a random photo to accompany a recommendation for users of Adobe Lightroom to read Victoria Bampton's "Lightroom Catalogs – Top 10 Misunderstandings" article. New users may find some misconceptions cleared up, while veterans will find a good resource to [...] View full post » Today is the nine-year anniversary of my plugins for Adobe Lightroom. It was on November 16, 2007 that I released my first ones, export plugins for Zenfolio and for SmugMug. Now, nine years later, after many having been added and a few having been retired, I have about 45 plugins available. Today I released a few minor updates, including a new "Publish At..." feature of my Bag-o-Goodies plugin. It lets you schedule a publish operation for later in the evening. I lost track of the count of updates I made prior to Lightroom 2, but since then, considering only the [...] View full post » |