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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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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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Lightroom 2.2 Is Out!

December 15, 2008

Lightroom 2.2 was released a couple of hours ago. Tom’s announcement covers all the gory details, but a couple of highlights are worth mentioning:

Canon 5D Mark II support (ooh, ahh … I want one! ) Canon PowerShot G10 support Camera Raw profiles added Bunch o’ bugs fixed
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Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

October 20, 2008

Update (September 2009): I’ve changed my workflow fairly significantly from what is described here. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”

In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Smart Collections and Worklists

August 4, 2008

Note: Last year, on the Lightroom Journal, I wrote about using worklist keywords to keep track of your keywording efforts. In this article, I look at some new and improved ways to accomplish the same thing with Lightroom 2.0.

I use worklists to keep track of work I want to do on [...]

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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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