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Practical Presets

January 12, 2010 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Practical Presets

Presets are great for a number of reasons. Easy to get a look, Easy to preview using the Navigator, and repeatable would be high on the list. It’s wonderful to get a look and save it as a preset. But sometimes, you apply that to another image and.. Ugh.. it’s terrible. Why? Well if you […]

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Top 5 posts of 2009

January 2, 2010 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Top 5 posts of 2009

Everyone seems to be doing top posts lists. Normally I wouldn’t, but it was interesting looking at the most popular posts this year. In no particular order: Using Lightroom for your iPhone photos Alphabetic Lightroom Things I like in Beta 3 An Introduction to Lightroom Plugins Creating a background image grid And a bonus, but […]

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Photo Training 4 U

December 15, 2009 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Photo Training 4 U

Some of you may have noticed the Photo Training 4 U link in the recommended section.. Well that’s there because I’m creating exclusive content for them about Lightroom. The site covers a range of photo training topics, like Portraits, Business, Photoshop etc. Andy Rouse, the wildlife photographer I interviewed a while back for Lightroom News, […]

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Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos

November 5, 2009 Sean McCormack11 Comments on Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos

The new Publish option in Lightroom 3 Beta allows you a handy way to control what photos are on your iPhone without iPhoto. Fortunately iTunes allows you to select a folder that will sync to the iPhone instead. First up, create a folder called iPhone on your hard drive. Next, in Lightroom 3 Beta’s Library […]

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Old as new tutorials

October 17, 2009 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on 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 […]

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Creating a Background grid with Lightroom

August 27, 2009 Sean McCormack3 Comments on Creating a Background grid with Lightroom

Here’s a little tutorial on creating a 5X5 grid of images to use as a background on Twitter or MySpace, etc.

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Creating an IR Camera Profile

May 21, 2009 Sean McCormack3 Comments on Creating an IR Camera Profile

Hi Folks,I did a version of this video a while ago, but never published it properly. After going through a series of Screen Capture applications, I’m now mixing Screenflow with Stomp to give you these, hopefully, improved videos with zooming and panning. This video covers the creation of a camera profile for my Infrared Camera, […]

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Branding Lightroom with the Identity Plate

March 28, 2009 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Branding Lightroom with the Identity Plate

Here’s a short video on how to set up the Identity Plate. Covering both text and graphical identity plates. The movie is in Apple Quicktime format. A collection of older videos is available via the Lightroom Blog videos page.

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Why LR changes the settings of raw pics on import.

January 13, 2009 Sean McCormack18 Comments on Why LR changes the settings of raw pics on import.

It’s probably time to jump in on some of the suggestions you’ve been posting in the Skribit box. This one is an easy one to explain, but I’m not sure how satisfied people will be with the answer. When you first view a Raw file in Lightroom, you are looking a camera rendered preview of […]

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Tuesday speedlinks

October 7, 2008 Sean McCormackLeave a Comment on Tuesday speedlinks

David Ziser has a cool video on mixing Light and Lightroom for killer images. Matt Kloskowski has a video interview with Scott Kelby about his new Lightroom book. Keeping the Inside Lightroom blog alive, Michael Clarke has a excerpt from one of his newsletters for us to read. Yanik Chauvin has an Adjustment Brush video […]

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