Archive for the 'Lightroom' Category

Update to my Data-Plot Lightroom Plugin Adds More Kinds of Plots

I've just pushed out a fairly big update to my Data-Plot plugin for Lightroom, offering the ability to now plot focal-length, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, and total exposure (Ev).

(This is a big update so I'm mentioning it here, but I don't normally announce updates here. However, all updates appear on the RSS feed for each plugin: there's a link in the upper-right of each plugin page. All my Lightroom goodies are on my aptly-named Lightroom Goodies page.)


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A Couple of New Lightroom Export Plugins: to Twitter, and to ExposureManager

Twitter added the ability to include a photo with a tweet a few days ago, so I've had my nose to the development grindstone and today release my "Export to Twitter" plugin.

Most of my "export to..." plugins (e.g. to Flickr or Facebook....) already included the ability to tweet a notice of an upload, and over the next few days they'll also get the ability to include a photo in a tweet, but this new plugin is a standalone tweeter.

(See my Lightroom Goodies page lists all my export-to plugins, as well as my many other Lightroom enhancements.)

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The Challenge of Comment Moderation in a Spiteful World

Moderating blog comments -- the triage to weed out spam and such before making submitted comments visible to the public -- can get complicated. Obvious spam is easy (delete it), as are obviously on-topic relevant personal comments without links (approve it). But there's a lot in between.

In particular, if there's a link you have to consider where it goes, and the commenter's purpose for including the link. On one end of the spectrum, spammers will just copy the text of a previously-approved comment and add a link to a site they're spamming for. Or someone will write something that [...]
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Scott Kelby Responds, Dazzling With His Marketing Magic

Scott Kelby's marketing skill continue to amaze me.

I posted the other day in "The Amazing Marketing Power of Scott Kelby" that I was disappointed in Scott Kelby for hyping a product close to him in a blatantly dishonest fashion. It seems that he responded to the tsunami of criticism a few days later in a video on one of his sites, KelbyTV, where, around 10 minutes into the show, he addresses the issue.

He says...

This is shockingly dishonest.... the "went and did it" has nothing to do with the context he set up. Folks saying "We wish we [...]
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My New Lightroom Plugin: as Close to “Layers in Lightroom” as You’re Going To Get

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 enough for a beta release.

--   Jeffrey's "Photoshop Layers" Lightroom Plug   --

It's slow and a bit kludgy -- definitely not "Layers in Lightroom" -- but unlike other external-editor solutions like the hyped app, this plugin allows for a [...]
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