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Updating the Site – Duplicate Posts

January 23, 2012 · 1 Comment · In WordPress

A few folks have written to let me know that there were duplicate mailings and RSS feed entries from my site over the weekend.

I’m retooling the site a bit and simplifying my WordPress existence (aiming for one site instead of three). Apparently the act of moving posts caused FeedBurner to rescan the site and [...]

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Where I’ve Been – Introducing Adobe Carousel

September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Photography

So, yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted here on this blog. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook have probably noticed that I’ve been a bit quieter than usual lately.

Here’s what’s up: A little more than a year ago (just after [...]

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Northern Gardener Cover Article

November 10, 2009

Forgive me for a moment of shameless self-promotion:

My mom and I have collaborated on several articles for Northern Gardener magazine over the past few years. (She writes, I photograph.) This month’s issue features our latest collaboration, on holiday decorating, on the cover. If you’re in or near [...]

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Lightroom 3 Public Beta: Favorite Articles So Far

October 21, 2009

Earlier tonight, Adobe released a new version of Lightroom: a public beta of Lightroom 3.0. You can download it from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/.

We’re releasing this a bit earlier in the cycle than we did with the Lr2 public beta, which means it’ll be a bit rougher around some edges. (As teammate Troy Gaul says, it’s [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition)

September 13, 2009

I’ve changed my Lightroom workflow fairly radically this summer. In this article, I talk about some of the motivations for making this change, how I made the new choices I’ve made, some of the alternatives I considered, and why I rejected them.

In addition to my work as a developer on the Lightroom team, [...]

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How Thomas Hawk Might Influence My Lightroom Workflow

May 11, 2009

Update (September 2009): After much consideration and much writing, I’ve developed a new workflow that I’m quite happy with. Thomas’ workflow and some of the thoughts below were very influential. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

A few days ago, a friend sent me a [...]

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Announcing Jitter

April 1, 2009

Microblogging is so 2008. Want to get right to the point? Then try picoblogging, where the name of the game is all about character. One character.

That’s right. I’m excited to announce my new start-up venture, Jitter, where you can send 1-character messages at random intervals. Your friends can subscribe to see what letter you [...]

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Worth Reading: Jeffrey Freidl – Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof

February 27, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered how your camera will respond to extreme light conditions (or, more importantly, extreme contrast in a scene), this article is a must read:

Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof (from Jeffrey Friedl’s blog)

Be sure to take the time to click through the “normalized to the base exposure” and “jpeg [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary

February 4, 2009

Do too many keywords in your Lightroom catalog have you spinning round and round?

Here are a couple of simple tricks I use to keep me organized with over 10,000 keywords in my catalog.

Organize Your Keywords with Category Headers

I’m a big fan of David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog. It’s a [...]

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Lightroom 2 Quick Tip: Put Your Favorite Photos on Your iPhone

January 12, 2009

Got an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? Looking for a quick way to take your favorite photos with you? Follow along with this demo:

Step 1: Choose the photos you want to export. Ideally, put them in a collection so you can update this later. A keyword or folder will work too.

Here, I’ve chosen [...]

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About Eric

Hi, I’m Eric. I’m a photographer, blogger, and software developer based near Seattle, Washington. I’ve been creating great software for desktop computers since 1983 and great photography since 1993.

Since 2003 I’ve combined those interests as a member of the Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Revel development teams.

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