November Links

Tom Hogarty talks with Jim Goldstein about Lightroom 3 Beta.

Gene McCullagh has a fantastic introduction to Publish in Lightroom 3 Beta.

Mark Wilson has another take on it: Publishing to the Cloud.

Matt Kloskowski has some free Grain Presets on Lightroom Killer Tips.

Not directly a Lightroom post, but with useful information: Solving Printing issues with Snow Leopard, PSCS4 and Epson Printers.

Old as new tutorials

Lots of time can pass, but old articles can have new life for new users. Here's a few past posts on different topics:

How to use Keywords Sets in Lightroom.

How to create a Grid Background for Twitter.

How to make a Camera Profile for IR cameras.

How to speed up Basic in Develop, making for a faster workflow.

Why Lightroom appears to change photos after import and what you can do about it.

Slow on the western front

Apologies to my regular readers, it's been busy here with work and generally just keeping up with forums. I've been away a lot recently and doing quite a few all day shoots, leaving me too tired for planning and writing posts.

I've been busy in forums instead, and have a few projects on the go, including a series of training videos for a photo training websites. More on that another time.

In the meantime, here's some links to keep you going:

An older post that'd being pushed by Brandon from the great X-equals: Lightroom Sharpening. I wonder if my comment on an article reminded him of it!

John Beardsworth has a little note on Keyword Synonyms.

Wade Heninger has his weekly 'Lightroom Tuesday' post.

John Nack shows us that Aperture isn't doing so well in the 'war', even among Mac users. Don't get me wrong, Aperture has some wonderful features that I'd love to see in Lightroom (Books!).

Link Love

I've been busy with stuff so here's a little link love to keep you going:

I mentioned this on Lightroom News, but Thomas Hawk (of Zooomr fame) has a new post up on his current workflow. Good read.

Syl Arena also talks about workflow from the point of view of Image Mechanics.

John Beardsworth has 2 3 new plugins. One is for Pseudo ratings in contact sheets, while the other lets you see the size of a group of files. The third lets you Find Missing Files. John is waxing lyrical the process of learning Lua to create these plugins: Since doing the screenshot, I have updated the plug-in after finding how to round to x decimal places in Lua:

function round(what, precision) 
return math.floor(what*math.pow(10,precision)+0.5) / math.pow(10,precision) 
end 

For those who don't quite appreciate the elegance of that beautiful expression, here's how you'd do the same thing in ugly, functional Microsoft's VB:

round (what,2)


John is also on Twitter as @barbaricca (sorry John, I couldn't resist).

The X= blog has a post about Camera Profiles from Michael W. Gray. I see Michael still has the old Beta profiles installed. He details how to set the default profile also..


SlideShowPro for Lightroom has also been updated to version 1.4.5.

Heads up on Heninger

Former Adobe guy Wade Heninger is giving lots of Lightroom link love over on his blog. Well worth checking out.

Lightroom Links

A few tidbits popping up around the net.

Victoria Bampton has a list of Top 10 Gothcas

Tyler Ginter has a great post about Metadata failings with Lightroom compared to Photomechanic

Martin Evening has a good video post about Exposure and Brightness Adjustments

Update:
As a joke on me... Matt Dawson has posted a 'Restart Lightroom' script, to do a shutdown and restart. As a web developer, restarting Lightroom is a fact of life. Often a reload is not enough to get the newest code into Lightroom and a restart is needed. Matt's script makes it easier!

Speedlinks and News Clips

I've an interview with Iron Maiden photograper John McMurtrie, over at Lightroom News

I've also done as promised in an earlier post and put a bunch of my videos on one page: Lightroom Blog Videos!

The set of Dragan presets that I've had on Inside Lightroom are now somewhere in the Adobe Exchange approval process. Hopefully they'll be up soon. I'm delight that Richard has hosted them so long, but I'd love to be able to see how they go on the exchange. If you can't wait for these free presets, then get them at Inside Lightroom

Speaking of free presets, Matt Kloskowski has a Max Payne style preset pack for edgy portraits. Go over to Lightroom Killer Tips to check it out.

After not understanding people have an issue with content font sizes in LRB Portfolio, I found that I had in fact set a small font size in the code unknowingly. Er.. Apologies. I've added a font control for this, along with the ability of use images in the menu instead of text. I'm still looking into other feature additions before sending this out to testers.

I've had to edit the voice over on the new Spotting video for Lightroom News, so that'll will be up shortly.