Wacom Intuos Draw Unboxing and tablet advice
Using a tablet is a surefire way to improve your retouching. I recently had to update mine, so here’s my unboxing and tips for getting started with a tablet.
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Setting up Palette for Lightroom
Yesterday I had an informal look at Palette, so here’s a look at how you set it up for use with Lightroom.
Continue ReadingPalette Gear Launched
If you’ve read my book , then you’ll have seen me cover Palette in my section on plugins for Lightroom. Well today they’ve launched officially. Obviously seeing that my book is out now, I’ve had one to play with for a bit. In the past I’ve looked at using beta plugins to run external midi […]
Continue ReadingThe one and OM-D
Getting the OM-D Before my Iceland trip I bought an Olympus OM-D EM-5, a cute and versatile camera. I'd been so impressed with the baby E-PL1 that I really wanted its big brother. So I jumped through hoops and did all sorts of balancing bills and monies owed to make a purchase viable for the […]
Continue ReadingThe Touch
The Touch is a great way of controlling Lightroom (or Final Cut Pro X) from an iPad or from a trackpad via multi touch gestures. Personally I’ve been using it with an iPad, but with my deskspace being more limited these days (I recently bought a smaller one to create more space in my room), […]
Continue ReadingKorg nanoKontrol with Knobroom: midi control of Lightroom.
Following on from the discussion of PADDY for Lightroom recently, I’d like to add something to the fray. Unlike PADDY, Knobroom works on Mac, so it was the perfect excuse to buy a Korg nanoKontrol to test it with. Basically I plugged in the Korg and then downloade the Kontrol editor. Next I mapped the […]
Continue ReadingPaddy for Lightroom: Open source hardware control
Udi Tirosh from DIYPhotography contacted me to let me know about an article on the site about Paddy for Lightroom. Paddy is an open source program that provides access to Lightroom shortcuts, presets, brushes etc, from external controllers such as the X-Keys keypad. You can even use midi controllers to provide live faders for even […]
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