In this tutorial I will show you how the white balance picker works in Camera RAW. This tool will let you quickly select the right white balance for an image and then sync it across all the images from one shoot without having to use presets.
In this tutorial I want to give you an idea of how you can crop photos creatively to save a bad photo you thought you couldn’t do anything with or go outside of the formats you normally capture to show something different.
After I demo Lightroom to a crowd of die-hard Photoshop and Bridge users, or just show it to someone for the first time there is always a slight fear that they will start working with Lightroom in the wrong way. Everyone just wants to get it right the first time and I completely get that. Therefore, I thought I should share what I have started doing since a couple of weeks ago. You see, I am starting over again with my Lightroom library.
I have been shooting for many years now and I have been using Lightroom since the very first beta versions before version one. Not only have the software changed dramatically over these years, but so has my photography. For the first few years when I started becoming more serious with my shooting, I improved a lot. This led to me not wanting to keep or see the old photos that I had taken even just six months before.
My Lightroom library is a mix of different types of photography for different purposes and different levels of seriousness. Today, I find that to be utterly confusing and not helpful at all. Plus, in the past year or two, my photography has pretty much been at a stand still. There has just been too many other things going on in my life.
Now that I am beginning to pick it up again, I want a clean start.
So, what am I doing? Well, I will be starting with a brand new catalog where only photos from today and on will end up. These are however only photos that I set out to take as part of a photo shoot. No iPhone photos in this catalog. No photos from the family get-together. Just photos that had the purpose of beautiful photography (regardless of the end result though…).
I hope this new start will give me an easier time organizing all new photos coming in as well as helping me kick-start my passion for photography as I no longer have to wade through the mess that was my old photo library. It’s a fresh start for a fresh time.
The morale of the story is that you can just decide to start over whenever you want, keeping your old catalog files as reference, not having to go back again and re-add your old photos. Just archive and move on, be happy and keep shooting better stuff!
In this tutorial I will show you how to save and load selections in Adobe Photoshop. Doing this will allow you to go back and load complex selections that you have made, saving having to do selections over and over again.
In this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I will show you two selections tools that are highly useful but often forgotten: The grow and similar commands. Both of these commands help you take a selection and expand it to include similar colors, either in connection with the current selection or all over the image.
Today I came across a wonderful Lightroom plugin that I wanted to share with you. It’s called LRTimelapse and is a free plugin that you can download. It will help you create time lapse movies around many parameters.
Examples and use cases
- Alter the white balance over the time (for example for sun sets)
- Deflicker
- Make Ken-Burns effects (pan/zoom)
- Fade in / fade out
- Continuously saturate / desaturate
- and many more…
You can download the LRTimelapse plugin for Lightoom here.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple image slider using Adobe Edge. This is a good practice tutorial to start using Edge and learn its basics.
Finally Google is getting their act together and has today rolled out the ability to create a business profile page at Google+. It’s a matter of just going to the page setup page on Google+ and submitting the required info.
The idea of Google+ where you add pages to circles makes it very easy for you to create a special “Page” circle to group pages into. Unfortunately, you can both +1 and add a page to your circles, creating two actions that you would want your fans to take.
It’s good to see that Google+ is now supporting better business use, first with Google Apps support and now the pages. Hopefully their account migration tool are
Adobe has put up the new versions of Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10 in the Mac App Store so that if you are on a Mac and don’t want to get the boxed version, you can just get it on the Mac App Store, which is very convenient. Getting it from the App Store also saves you $20 bucks, with the app store versions priced at $79.99 each.
Thanks to Dave Cross Workshops, I’ll be down in sunny Tampa, Florida in December, teaching a class on WordPress for Photographers and I hope you are going to join me there. Examples of what we will be covering are: Portfolios and Galleries, Integration with Lightroom/Bridge, Analytics, Blogging, Setting up WordPress and the Basics and more techniques and features that will help your site bring you new clients.
If you are near Tampa, or fancy combining a nice get-away from the cold (like I’m doing), please join me on December 8 for just $59. Register today!