August 29th, 2008
PW84 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Keywording
It’s the end of our second week of Lightroom 2 tips and today we look at all the myriad ways Adobe have given us to add keywords to our images. I know it’s something most of us shy away from doing. Who needs another post processing step when all we’re really interested in is how the picture looks? But keywording is one of those tasks that given just a little of prior thought can be fast, consistant and incredibly useful. So let’s delve into the tools we have available.PW84 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Keywording (mp4 video)
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August 28th, 2008
PW83 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Post crop vignettes
Those of you that know me know how much I love my vignettes. Well Adobe made me very happy with Lightroom 2. They added a post-crop vignette feature that does everything I could have wanted. So today Im going to show you all about how to use it.
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August 27th, 2008
PW82 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Export Plugins
Today’s show is a bit off-plan. I intended to show you the new features of LR2 but what I’m showing today is stuff you could already do in LR1. Adobe did make it a little tidier and cleverer so I guess it counts. Today we’ll look at how to setup export plugins that give lightroom more useful export capabilities. In particular we’ll see a couple of different ways to upload to Flickr directly from Lightroom. We’ll also look at where you can find more interesting and useful plugins.
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August 26th, 2008
PW81 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced Graduated Filters
Today we continue looking at our landscape image. We’ve already corrected the exposure in the sky but now it’s time to get a little more creative by bringing the sky and ground tones together and then adding a smoke coloured filter. We also fix up some more light issues and refocus the viewer’s attention using a little more adjustment brush.
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August 25th, 2008
PW80 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Neutral density graduated filter
Today we work on a landscape image with an over exposed sky. We do some cropping and rotation to begin with followed by a little spot editing to remove some distractions. Then we get to work with the Graduated Neutral Density Filter to fix up the sky and bring the tones in the image closer together.
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August 22nd, 2008
PW79 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Advanced adjustment brush tips
Today we round out the first week of Lightroom 2 tips with some advanced techniques for use with the Adjustment Brush. We also look at spot editing, snaphots, the non-destructive history in Lightroom and how to make graduated edits without using a Wacom tablet. Look out next week for a second week of Lightroom 2 tips!
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August 21st, 2008
PW78 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush presets
Today we move on to a picture of my sister and do a little beauty retouching with the soften skin adjustment brush preset. We also do some cropping, rotation and tweaking the colour temperature.
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August 20th, 2008
PW77 - Lightroom 2 Quicktip - Adjustment brush clarity and saturation
Sticking with the adjustment brush we move on to a new image today and use clarity and saturation to re-focus the eye and draw attention to a different part of the picture.
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August 19th, 2008
PW76 - Lightroom 2 Tips - Adjustment brush colour filters
Today we spend more time with the adjustment brush - there’s just so much you can do with it! We’ll try changing the background colour of an image completely as though we’d used a clever shaped colour filter when we shot the picture.
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August 18th, 2008
PW75 - Lightroom 2 Tips - Adjustment brush dodge and burn
This week I decided to celebrate the launch of Lightroom 2 with a full week of shows demonstrating the new features. Today we start with the best known new feature - the adjustment brush. We’ll be using that to dodge and burn some flower macro photos taken at Kew Gardens.
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