Archive for the 'Lightroom' Category

Insidious Extortion: Ongoing Pitfalls of My Lightroom Plugin Development

Back during the Lightroom 2 days (circa early 2009), I spent some intense weeks writing a really great plugin, allowing a user to create custom image metadata fields on the fly. If a user suddenly decides that he wants an extra metadata field to describe the weather for a shot, or the flash setup, or a model's name, or whatever, just a few clicks in a plugin dialog and voilà, it would appear with the standard image metadata alongside each photo. I really wanted this for my own use, and I knew lots of folks would be jazzed about it [...]


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So Much For That Glorious iPad Screen: iOS and its Apps are Not Even Color Managed

Well, this is surprising: iOS does not seem to be color managed. At all.

This is a long and technical article. Here's the table of contents:

Introduction Color Management Embedded Color-Profile Support Device-Specific Color Profiles The Curiously-Deficient "SpyderGallery" App What's Next One Last Caveat

Introduction

With all the talk these days about glorious color performance of the third-generation iPad screen, such as this article and this, I realized that my Lightroom-to-iPad workflow (presented in "Getting Photos from Lightroom to iPad: a Much Smoother Workflow") neglected to consider color profiles. This is a huge oversight for someone like me [...]


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Funky Kyoto Marathoners: More Lightroom Processing Fun (and a mini challenge)

So I was going through the photos from last weekend's Kyoto Marathon (京都マラソン2012) and came across an out-of-focus shot that I'd normally just delete, but it had some kind of odd sense of space about it that I found somehow appealing, and wondered whether I couldn't use some funky processing to turn the lack of focus into an asset.

I don't know whether I succeeded, but the result is what you see above, something that vaguely reminded me of my memory of some Leroy Neiman Olympic paintings.

I don't use develop presets very often, but I saved the extreme develop [...]


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Lightroom 4.0 is Out!

After a two-month public beta, Adobe has just released Lightroom 4.0.

It's not a free upgrade, but with the price now cut in half (upgrades are now $80), it's an easy decision.*  There's a lot new if you're coming from Lr3, the most important likely being the new rendering engine. Laura Shoe has a post and video about what's new here, and Victoria Bampton's always exhaustive "what's new" list is here.

* At just $80 for the upgrade, even from Lr1, it's an easy decision, but Adobe usually comps me a free copy, which is very nice, so if [...]


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Getting Photos from Lightroom to iPad: a Much Smoother Workflow

Three and a half months ago, after a lot of research and Lightroom plugin development, I published the long writeup "How To Best Export Lightroom Images to an iPad, iPhone, Etc.", about my Lightroom-to-iPad workflow at the time.

It's now completely out of date.

Most everything about my workflow has changed, all of it for the better. It's required months of development, a new Lightroom plugin (Collection Publisher) and major updates to my Crop for iPad plugin, but the result, unlike before, is something smooth and easy.

I'm still looking for the perfect photo-presentation app for my iPad, but [...]


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