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Tuesday
Aug312010

PW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow

| DateTuesday, August 31, 2010 at 11:26PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

Today's show does double duty as both part of our Lightroom 3 review and also the first chapter in a new tutorial. We'll be adding fashion labels to our photographs as a fun way to brand a Lightroom 3 slideshow and I'll show you how the label is made by using new features from Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. If you want to see what we're aiming for I've uploaded the Lightroom 3 Slideshow to my Flickr.

 

Covered in this episode:

  • Importing photos in Lightroom
  • New import dialog in Lightroom 3
  • Import presets in Lightroom 3
  • Docking folders in Lightroom 3 import dialog
  • Lightroom straightening 
  • Lightroom cropping
  • Lightroom color correction
  • Lightroom color enhancement
  • Before and after view
  • Lightroom export to photoshop
  • Lightroom Photoshop round trip
  • Photoshop CS5 marquee tool
  • Photoshop CS5 content aware fill
  • Photoshop CS5 content aware scaling

PW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Slideshow Fashion Labels

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Tuesday
Aug172010

iStock innovates for bloggers

| DateTuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:48PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

Whatever your thoughts about the merits or otherwise of micro-stock there's no denying that iStockphoto is doing great business. As well as the spiffy new website redesign (and the iStockphoto site really is looking very splendid right now) they've come up with a great way to sell even more of our stock photography and at the same time providing a service I think bloggers will quickly find invaluable. iStock are launching a Wordpress plug-in that helps bloggers browse, buy and insert the perfect stock image to accompany their post or web page and with the rise of smart feed readers like Flipboard, Apollo and Pulse (three of my favourite news reading apps on the iPad) the importance of an eye-catching image for gaining attention and building traffic has never been greater. The plugin pulls tags from your blog post and uses them to search against iStockphoto's catalogue of images. It was written by GuteWolke for Wordpress version 3.0 and is available at www.microstockplugin.com. Images purchased through the plugin are the same price and licensing terms as those bought through the website. 

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Sunday
Aug082010

PW131 - Lightroom Video Review - Flickr Upload and Import Dialog

| DateSunday, August 8, 2010 at 12:07AM by AuthorJohn Arnold

On today's Lightroom 3 Video Review show we look at a new feature that is already saving me a lot of time and helping me share more of my photos - the new Flickr upload that is part of the publishing service. Lightroom 3 can now integrate directly with Flickr and keep collections up to date for you - even downloading the comments. We'll also take a look at the new import dialog which boasts an improved and simplfied layout plus a very useful new import presets feature.

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Wednesday
Aug042010

I'm flattr'd

| DateWednesday, August 4, 2010 at 12:19AM by AuthorJohn Arnold

If you've been watching PhotoWalkthrough for a while you'll know I believe in giving the show away for free. That's always going to be true but it doesn't mean I don't want to make some money from all my hard work. That's why I try to bring you promo codes from sponsors I believe in but occasionally people ask if there's a way to put some cash in a tip jar as well. I've resisted in the past but a new service has opened up called flattr and I really believe in the ethics of what they're doing. Let me explain...

The simple fact is that making content, especially video, is hard work. I believe that we should reward people's effort by being willing to donate a little cash from time to time. I don't mean we should pay for everything we consume on the internet - just the stuff that we love the most. In fact, why not simply allocate a small budget, say $2, for what we're willing to spend on "tip jars" every month? That's exactly how flattr works - a new company set up to help people donate small amounts to sites they love while keeping the total amount they spend within a budget. It's really simple, you sign up and put a little cash in your account there (just a couple of bucks) and then you can click flattr buttons to donate a portion of your funds to a site. You set a budget per month and that money is split between all the sites you clicked on in the month. Simple.

Flattr is in beta right now so signups are being taken slowly at first. I have a small number of invites, though, so if you're keen to get started just contact me and I'll hook you up right away.

Check it out at www.flattr.com and if PhotoWalkthrough happens to be one of the sites you choose to flattr - thank you. The flattr button for photowalkthrough is on the right of the page just below the navigation links.

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Monday
Jul192010

PW130 - Lightroom 3 Video Review - Lens and Perspective Correction, Grain

| DateMonday, July 19, 2010 at 8:50PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

Today we continue our video review of Adobe Lightroom 3 by taking a good hard look at the new lens correction feature and see how it can be used to perform perspective correction just like a tilt and shift lens. We also see what the new Grain tool can do to help you decide whether Lightroom 3 is a worthwhile upgrade for you.

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Tuesday
Jul062010

PW129 - Lightroom 3 Video Review - Noise Reduction

| DateTuesday, July 6, 2010 at 7:57PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

Today we start our video review of Lightroom 3, the brand new version of Lightroom, by taking a real in-depth look at one of the headline new features, improved noise reduction. We put it to the test with a real high ISO image and try to help you decide for yourself whether Lightroom 3 is a worthwhile upgrade for you.

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Tuesday
Jul062010

Yogile makes collaborative photo collections easy

| DateTuesday, July 6, 2010 at 11:33AM by AuthorJohn Arnold

A new free photo sharing site just launched that makes it easy to share photos and make a collection with multiple contributors. It's called Yogile and it isn't just another Flickr or PhotoBucket. Signing up is a doddle and you'll automatically make your first collection. All you have to do next is hand out the simple URL or email address for your collection and your family and friends can upload photos too without even having to sign up.

So if you've had a wedding lately Yogile is a great way to collect pictures from all your guests. Just send everyone the URL or email address of your collection and everyone can upload their best pictures to your shared collection without even needing to sign up. There's a 100Mb/month upload limit and you can add a password if you want to keep things exclusive. The opportunities for collaborative collections is huge. Imagine collecting all the pictures from your latest photo walk, training course or family holiday.

You can try it out at www.yogile.com or have a play with the PhotoWalkthrough collection at www.yogile.com/ort250u.

Overall I like Yogile very much. Anyone who's tried to make a collection in Flickr and then get people to add their pictures will know how difficult that can be. Yogile makes everything much easier and there's even a handy slideshow view so you can sit back and enjoy everyones shots. There are a couple of features I'd like to see like a "download all" button, the ability to re-order the pictures and possibly even the ability to select a few shots in a collection and make them into a new collection. But as a brand new service I think Yogile gets the core features right and I look forward to seeing where they take it next.

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Tuesday
Jun292010

PhotoWalkthrough on your mobile browser

| DateTuesday, June 29, 2010 at 2:39PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

At last PhotoWalkthrough is watchable on an iPhone, iPad or Android mobile phone. I've been playing around with some HTML5 video support and I believe I've found a solution that supports just about every browser and platform. Embedded below is the latest show which you'll see either as an HTML5 embed or as a flash object depending on what you're using to view this page.

I'm posting this to ask for your feedback on how successful this experiment is. If you've had trouble with this post or if you just want to say that it worked please leave a comment.

UPDATE: I suspect this isn't working for Firefox users. I'm still refining the code, though.

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Tuesday
Jun292010

PW128 - Tutorial 19 - High Key, High Colour Portraits

| DateTuesday, June 29, 2010 at 11:05AM by AuthorJohn Arnold

Today's Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 video tutorial shows how to create the attractive high key, high contrast, bright colour portrait style that's so fashionable at the moment with companies like Venture. In this one chapter tutorial I used Photoshop CS5 to produce the effect and then show how to do the same thing using Lightroom 3. These steps work equally well in earlier versions of Photoshop as far back as CS and Lightroom 2. Download the source image and try this yourself.

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Monday
Jun142010

PW127 - Wacom Pen and Touch Review

| DateMonday, June 14, 2010 at 3:29PM by AuthorJohn Arnold

In today's show we have a video review of the Wacom Pen and Touch plus the LA Robe tablet sleeve. A wacom tablet is one of the staples of digital photo editing and the Pen and Touch is not only just what you need but it's very affordable and features new touch gesture support. Well worth a look!

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