Speedlinks.

I've done a bunch recently over on Lightroom-News, but it's time for some for me :)

James Duncan Davidson is continuing his series on photo backup and storage, over at O'Reillys Inside Lightroom.

Matt Kloskowski has new presets for download over at Lightroom Killer Tips. A day late (again-just kidding Matt!), these new presets give an older, tinted, look to your photographs.

Joe over at Lightroom Galleries has updated the LRG FSS Select Gallery to version 1.1. Check out the sample gallery.

Speaking of Galleries, Matthew Campagna has released a beta version of a gallery provisionally titled "TTG Feedback Gallery". It's based on his Selection gallery, which I really like. Find out more from this Lightroom Forums post.

Jeffrey Friedl is also updating things, this time it's adding to his recent 'Piglet' development for Export Presets. This updates adds a "Run any Command" feature, allowing you to run a command line tool (eg Exiftool) as part of your Export Plugin.

Not strictly Lightroom, but very Camera Raw, Jeff Schewe was interviewed by Bert Monroy for his Pixel Perfect podcast.

I forgot to mention it last week, but SlideShowPro for Lightroom has been updated to V1.06.

Lightroom Learn Wiki

Along with a number of well known figures from the Lightroom Community, I've been involved with a new venture from Adobe: The Lightroom Learn Wiki. This community help system is an updated version of LiveDocs, with added interactivity. Users can add comments and link to existing documents to expand and explain further. The base documentation is still controlled and supported by Adobe. Anita Dennis is the lady in charge of the whole project and has worked quite hard to bring this to fruition.

In order to keep order in the Wiki, there are a number of moderators that will keep an eye on users links and comments. These come from the Lightroom Advisors team that worked with Anita bringing the Wiki up to date. None of the Moderators are permanent, but will cycle from within the group.

Feel free to check it out, especially with all the additional resources and links that have been added to the LiveDocs.

Podcast #48: Gerd Ludwig

“If you go and photograph a beggar, it makes a huge difference whether you stand in front of the beggar—the same thing is true for children—if you stand in front of them, and point your camera down, or whether you physically go down on your knees, and try and see the world through their eyes, from their perspective. It makes a different picture. Your picture is determined by your physical point of view. But your physical point of view is also the result of your emotional relationship to that person, to that beggar, to that child, which in turn can be the result of your life perspective. So sometimes when asked ‘what’s the exposure of your image’ a photographer, a photojournalist would say, well it’s a 125th of a second, and in my case 60 years. Because in a great image, ideally your whole life perspective comes and culminates in that image. Flows into it.” - Gerd Ludwig

The podcast can be downloaded from

http://idisk.mac.com/george_jardine-Public?view=web

This podcast is labeled “20071120 Podcast - Gerd Ludwig” in the Public directory.

Or, it can be found on iTunes (in a day or two) by searching under Podcasts for “Lightroom”. The RSS feed is:

http://rss.adobe.com/www/special/light_room.rss

Setting Titles and Captions in the Web Module

While covering ground mentioned on this blog in the past, Matthew Campagna has created 2 videos on setting up Titles and Caption sin Web galleries. The more advanced video makes of the ag:formatted feature I've mentioned here and on Lightroom-news.com. It's great to finally hear Matthew, after all the back forth via email and on forums. I have to say that it's one thing to read something, but visual learners will find these videos especially useful. I do get a mention in video 2, but I have to confess that it was more prodding and asking questions that got me the information that is there, that any accidental discovery.


Go check out the videos here.