Lightroom presets for applying a beautiful film like quality to your images.

LR/Enfuse is a Lightroom plugin that allows you to blend multiple exposures together directly from within Lightroom by using the open source Enfuse application.

What's the easiest way to apply a profile to a large number of images in Lightroom? First, select a set of images in your LR catalog. Next, choose your desired profile from the Profile popup menu in the Develop module's Camera Calibration panel. Then choose "Sync Settings..." from the Settings menu. Make sure "Calibration" is checked in the ensuing dialog box and click Synchronize. If you find yourself doing this a lot, you can save yourself time by making a preset. In the Develop module's left panel, click the + button to the right of the word "Presets". Make sure "Calibration" is checked in the ensuing dialog box and click Create. Then whenever you need to apply your preset to a group of images, click on your newly-created preset from the Presets list in the left panel.

With the introduction on July 29, 2008 of Lightroom 2.0 and Camera Raw 4.5 a new and very exciting change has taken place. Both of these raw converters (as well as any others which are DNG 1.2 compatible) now can use camera profiles.

As noted above both Lightroom and Camera Raw include support for the saving and application of user defined develop settings on a camera model, serial number and/or ISO rating basis. These settings will be applied automatically to each photo during import or after a reset if it is already within the catalog. By adopting this approach Lightroom provides a means by which much of the decision making and application of custom or user defined defaults for develop settings is fully automated. Better still is the fact that the defaults saved in Lightroom will automatically be used by Camera Raw and vice versa.

My longtime friend Mike Clark from The Pragmatic Studio recently went to Hawaii on vacation and, of course, took his camera. During his trip, he captured a great photo of a green lizard. Yesterday, he sent me an email asking for any comments or criticism about his photo and what I might do to it in Lightroom. Instead of trying to communicate vaguely through email and a couple of static photos, I pulled out ScreenFlow (which I’ve been meaning to play with sometime) and kicked out a fast little screencast of me in Lightroom talking my way through processing his image.

Here are my “Top 10 Lightroom Tweets of the Week” in no particular order. Enjoy!

I designed this workflow to be a little more intuitive and versatile than one-size-fits-all preset approach. Since I occasionally shoot in different file formats, I needed presets that could adapt to both a RAW and JPG workflow. The workflow itself is a two-step process 1) Correcting and enhancing the quality and tonality of the images, and 2) making color adjustments. The two categories of presets I developed (Basic Presets and Color Presets) can be mixed and matched in a number of ways, and since the settings of each type of preset are exclusive to their function, you'll never have to worry about Basic Presets or Color Presets overriding each other. Basic Presets only affect White Balance, Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light, Blacks, Brightness, Contrast, Tone Curve, and Vignette settings. And Color Presets only affect Hue, Saturation, Luminance, Grayscale Mix, and Split Tone settings.

Last year I wrote a blog post detailing my photography workflow. Since last year though my workflow has changed a bit as I’ve migrated from Adobe’s Bridge software to Adobe’s Lightroom software and thought that I’d post an updated article detailing how I process my images from start to finish. Questions about my workflow are some of the most common questions I’m regularly asked.

When the first preview appears, it looks just like it did on the camera, and then that disappears and it applies other settings. How do I turn that off?

What is Solo Mode you ask? One of the coolest features in Lightroom you’ve probably never heard of. Allow me to set this up…

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Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer’s perspective.

Een van de onderdelen waarop je de kwaliteit van een lens kunt beoordelen is op basis van of de lens een vignette geeft, een verdonkering aan de randen van de foto, en zoja hoe sterk het effect dan is. Fotografen werken ondere andere vaak met dure lenzen om dit effect zo veel mogelijk te beperken. En vervolgens duiken ze in hun grafische bewerkingsprogramma, oh ironie, om weer een vignette toe te voegen voor artistiek effect.

LR2/Mogrify is a Lightroom 2 post-process plug-in that allows you to use ImageMagick's mogrify command on images exported from Lightroom. ImageMagick is a collection of powerful, freeware command line utilities for processing images.

As promised, here’s a breakdown of a new Lightroom 2 workflow I tried out during my vacation trip to Turkey, Greece, and Egypt.

You’ve found biggest, most up to date list of free Adobe Lightroom presets. Often our desire for Lightroom presets is held back only because we don’t know where to find more.

Today I'm releasing a beta version of a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, “Jeffrey's GPS Support”, that adds support for Geoencoding photos from within Lightroom.

This project installs menu items into the Adobe Lightroom interface that allows photos to be tagged with geographic information through the Lightroom interface. Locations are read from the standard GPX file format and exif information is stored in the image files using Phil Harvey's exiftool.

In a Mac environment, GPSPhotoLinker lets you download your GPS track log, and then matches up your photos to the GPS data. It does that by comparing the timestamp in your photo’s Exif data to the timestamps in your GPS track log. Once done, it can create a GPX file. For a Windows machine, RoboGeo is your best bet, and it basically does the same thing as the GPSTrackLog application for the Mac, and also exports a GPX file.

There are a million things people take for granted when talking about either Lightroom or iPhoto – for starters, that one is a professional tool and the other is a toy. But toys can become quite sophisticated, and professional tools tend to go mainstream as technology matures – plus photography is a field where that distinction is fast blurring, to a point.

O'Reilly Media's Inside Lightroom web site shows you how to tap the power of Adobe's photo management application that's designed for photographers who want to quickly organize, process, and output their images.

Photofacts - een uitstekende blog met fotografie-nieuws - organiseert vandaag een blogkermis over workflow. Dat houdt in dat allerhande bloggers in Vlaanderen en Nederland vandaag schrijven over hun workflow - het proces van het nemen van een foto over het sorteren tot het afleveren van de foto. Het overzicht van alle artikels die vandaag verschenen zijn, krijg je vanavond op Photofacts. Hier volgt alvast mijn bijdrage.

Ondanks eerdere pogingen met Lightroom te werken ben ik er toch nog toe nooit serieus aan begonnen. Gemist heb ik het ook niet echt, want zover als ik weet zijn de meeste dingen die je er mee kunt ook te doen met Adobe Bridge en Camera RAW. Ik hoor echter van steeds meer fotografen dat ze niet meer zonder Lightroom kunnen, dus ik moet me er toch echt eens wat meer in verdiepen. De fotoshoot met Adriëtte van gisteren én de recent uitgebrachte versie 2.0 waren voor mij goede redenen er weer eens in te duiken. Ook heb ik recent het Lightroom 2 boek van Johan Elzenga gelezen. Ik nam mezelf voor om niet halverwege, zoals eerder, terug te schakelen naar Bridge omdat het me daar allemaal veel soepeler af gaat.

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Uitleg over de digitale fotografie workflow van Martijn Smeets.

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