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Normally I post a bunch of stuff on Tuesdays - generally there are several Presets in there each week.
Also, LifeInDigitalFilm.com had some black/white presets awhile back that were interesting...
http://www.lifeindigitalfilm.com/
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I'll assume you mean the adjustment brush?
Use the [ or ] key. Or use the scroll wheel. Or use the slider in the Adjustment Panel. -
asked by Azewaldo
Feature. I've never been able to figure it out though.
I just make sure I always make selections I want to apply to all in the grid area and not the flimstrip at the bottom.
This might help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WS570ED9CC-7EA2-441e-B98F-C5CCD20862AA.html
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There are two things you need to track:
1. The catalog file (normally named something.lrcat)
2. the photos
I save all my catalogs in one directory and the photos in another big archive folder. As long as those two things are intact, you should be able to move catalogs around at will. However, you may need to browse to find your photos in the second folder (wherever they were saved as sometimes Lightroom looses track of them and you get the missing file icon).
Read this on finding missing files:
http://www.peachpit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=lightroom&seqNum=154
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AFAIK, the best way to do this is to crop to ratio you need in the dev module and it will do the right thing when exporting.
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Oh the softballs! Use the Local Adjustment tool ;-)
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Ah a good question.
Print and export sharpening came about because people loved the output-specific sharpening options that were offered in the Pixel Genius product PhotoKitSharpener originally developed by a big Photoshop guru. To save space here, read from them why you might want to use targeted output sharpening:
http://www.pixelgenius.com/PKS2-PR/index.html
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Hold the spacebar down and you can drag all you want. Cheers!
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It looks like the filter bar only does a "any" match when trying to filter like you want. To get around this, create a Smart Collection like this:
http://img.skitch.com/20101006-t4smkysbs81asbmp99uq5rmyu3.jpg
Add a separate line for both keywords and make sure the Match pop up says "And" to limit it properly.
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Press the Y key and you'll see a side-by-side of your image with a before/after view.
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Somehow I missed this.
I wouldn't hold my breath on tethering for the Nikon D80. Its a pretty dated camera now (3+ years) and if they don't support it now, it probably won't be.
Sorry to break it to you.
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I've not run into this. I pinged a few guys on the LR team and didn't hear anything back either. As I don't bounce back and forth from platform, this hasn't bothered me.
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Hey there.
A 4 bay drobo is a great first step.
I pretty much layout my recommended workflow/file archiving system in my Lightroom for Busy Photographers PDF available here:
http://bit.ly/8YM8Cz
The short is:
1. Define a folder for all photos (i.e. Photo Archive). Manage by year/month/date (LR will do this for you)
2. If you have a fast drobo, save the catalogs to the drobo in a "Catalog" folder.
3. If its too slow, use a raid array drive in your Mac/PC (The mac makes it pretty easy to do)
4. Always do the same thing.
That should get you started, and refer to the PDF for a bit more detail.
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Well, they're two different apps, with very different constituencies, but there is some overlap. At least in an academic sense.
Bridge is an app for the entire creative suite. It previews PDFs for acrobat, vector illustrations for Illustrator, JPEGs from the web and Raw files from a digital camera. It does this via another helper app called "Adobe Camera Raw".
ACR has many of the same Raw tweaking tools as Lightroom - they're basically the same raw engine presented in different ways.
Where they divulge is workflow. The Bridge > ACR > Photoshop is a kludgy, hacky kinda thing made for users back in the early 2000's before we had apps like Lightroom or Aperture. You bounce around between all three apps, usually on one image at a time with all the elegance of a bear who can tap dance. But not very well.
Lightroom does much more than that unholy kludge from yesteryear. It is a holistic app that lets you import, manage, and output your still photographs. It does not demand raster images, nor does it force you to rely on ancient tools for slideshows, web photo galleries or the like. Nor does it throw you into the complexity that is Photoshop for your end point.
So there is overlap, but to be clear, they're not really comparable. Imagine you need to get to point B, 20 miles from your location. You can go via a horse and buggy (Bridge > ACR > Photoshop) or you can go via a Honda Civic Hybrid. They'll both deliver you to the destination, but one will let you listen to your iPod and the other will increase your travel time, give you hay fever and increase your risk of getting manure on your shoes. -
Those are to let you filter on a) no label (the blackish gray one) and b) a custom label.
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I would assume because this is such a potential pitfall that they chose to just avoid it and let the photog do it themselves. I do remember us adding the "eject after importing" stuff early on as a way to remove an unnecessary task.
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Did you restart Lightroom? You have to restart for them to show up.
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asked by rbaron
We talked about this some during my tenure at Adobe, but the whole 'site in a box' thing was just never one of those must do things for the team. And AFAIK, LRB portfolio is a one of a kind thing.
I'm assuming you want the images in a slideshow mode, one at a time? You might consider mailing the developer - he'd probably listen to your requests.
Personally, I used LR web galleries for years, and I even found one that used Paypal for sales. But it eats up scads of room on the server, took ages to upload, so after some searching around, I began using SmugMug for my gallery presentations and sales. I was surprised how much I could do with Smugmug for the price.
Storage is cheaper than server space, sales and printing is all done by them (thru Bay Photo - great lab) and I'm a much saner person.
My recommendation is to find a service like that for your photos and build a simple website to link to said galleries.
PS. I work for SmugMug now, and somewhat biased - they convinced me to leave Adobe to help them improve their product for Pro photogs.
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