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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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 self-limiting name like "Tampa Photoshop Users Club", he smartly called it the grandiose "National Association of Photoshop Professionals", and it took off. Since then, he's got writing credit on dozens of books and instructional videos, and leads a whole self-titled media machine (Kelby Media Group) [...]
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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 profiles are in this ZIP file.)

This is important because in some cases, the standard "Camera" profiles that come with Lightroom ACR fail miserably for these three cameras. For example, consider this crop from the photo above:

Those mottled magenta splotches are not on the flower; they're a bug in Lightroom's camera profiles for the D3/D700/D300.

(The rest of this post is written from a Lightroom [...]

Lately, I've really been enjoying the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5's ultra-thin depth of field in a macro setting to "creamify" flowers and such, leaving only very specific areas in sharp focus, with the rest melting away into a creamy mix of softness. The Voiglander's bokeh is spectacular. I posted something along these lines the other day in "On The Road to Imabari", and have several more examples from the last week that I'd like to post, but I'm afraid of overdoing it, so I'll parcel them out from time to time.

The king of this style of photography is Daniel Sroka [...]

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 people will ever use, but there we are. You can read about it here.