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About cameras, equipment, and postprocessing techniques

How to Install an Export Plugin in Lightroom 1

The instructions on this page are for Lightroom versions 1.3 through 1.4.1.

For Lightroom 2.0 and Later, go here

As I mentioned yesterday, Adobe has released Lightroom 1.3, which now includes support for export plugins. Yesterday I described what a plugin might look like to the user. In preparation for actually being able to release the plugins that I've written, I'll describe here how to install a plugin.

A plugin consists of a folder worth of files, with the folder having a name that ends with ".lrplugin" or ".lrdevpluginin". Installing a plugin involves simply moving the plugin folder to a [...]


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Lightroom 1.3 & Export Plugins for SmugMug and Zenfolio

Adobe has just released Version 1.3 of its Lightroom photo-workflow software, two months after releasing Version 1.2. You can download the new version from Adobe's Lightroom Page, or use these direct links: Mac - Windows.

There's a ReadMe.pdf describing the release, and a much more detailed description by Victoria Bampton, but in short, it contains some small things:

Better OSX Leopard support Bug fixes Support for a few new cameras: Added support for Fuji compressed RAF files and Canon sRAW files You can now render 1:1 previews during import (yeah!) New functionality for repairing corrupt catalogs

However, the big news [...]


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Fiery Momiji & Kousuke Fukui

I seem to be buried under a photographic avalanche of my own making. I thought that today I'd get started with the bonanza of interesting and/or pretty pictures that I hinted at yesterday, but instead, today I took two more shots that I want to share.

While waiting for the fall colors to come into full swing, there are the occasional early flashes of color that entertain. My office window affords a nice view of the neighbor's front garden, with one such "early flash of color" tree. It was overcast and rainy today, with occasional short bursts of sun sprinkled [...]


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Impromptu Portraits in the Park

As I mentioned yesterday, I went to Osaka to visit some friends. We met at Osaka Castle Park (a lovely place that I'll write about another time) and enjoyed the afternoon together.

I had my camera with me, of course, and took the opportunity to try my hand at some impromptu family portraits.....

I've known Kevin for the better part of 20 years, and he attended my wedding 10 years ago. We don't get to meet very often because he lives up toward Tokyo, so I was happy that a business trip brought him down my way.

I apparently met [...]


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Calendar-Template-Building Script, Version 3

I published an updated to my Photoshop calendar-template-building script today. The script, which runs on Photoshop CS2 or CS3, creates the components of a calendar as a many-layered PhotoShop document that you can then change and tweak (adding photos, etc.) as you like.

The upgrade is from Version 3 Beta 1 (a major upgrade released a month ago) to Version 3, and incorporates these enhancements:

The "February becomes March" bug has been fixed. You can now have weeks start on any day of the month, not just Sunday or Monday as before. Apparently, a calendar starting on Saturday is useful [...]
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