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My latest guest post is live on photofocus.com. Learn how to bring developed raw photos from Lightroom 2 into the Lightroom 3 beta for test driving.

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Ever since writing Lightroom for Dummies I’ve had the idea to teach a class based on the most common topics people are asking about. Topics they are either not finding covered in books or seminars or are just not covered in a format that allows them to ask questions and learn while doing. To that end I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity to teach that exact course in an online format through the Perfect Picture School of Photography (PPSOP)!

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You can access the Preferences by going to Edit > Preferences on Windows or Lightroom > Preferences on Mac. Once the Preferences dialog box appears click the External Editing tab to access these settings.
By default Lightroom always chooses the most current version of Photoshop you have installed as the primary …

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The only way Windows users could successfully export multiple photos directly to an email attachment from Lightroom was using a (free) third-party app called MAPI Mailer created by Steve Sutherland. Well, I just learned (thanks to Lightroom-News.com) that Steve has upgraded MAPI to a full fledged Export Plugin, which removes the previous limitation on how many photos could be attached at a time.

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A nice feature of Lightroom 2′s Export dialog is the ability to automatically add exported copies into the Lightroom catalog. Among other uses, I find it to be a very handy way to add a custom watermark using theLR2Mogrify export plugin to copies of photos I want to add to …

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Here’s a simple tip that may just keep you from pulling out your hair when trying to export from Lightroom 2.+ and stack the copy back with the source photo.

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Last week I tried to demystify the import process, so it seems fitting to do the same with the export process. Part of what confuses people are the words Import and Export as it implies that your photos are going in and then out of Lightroom, but in reality it is …

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I’ve seen a couple of folks report this problem lately, so I thought I’d put out a general warning against performing this operation in Lightroom 1+. Here’s the scenario … You imported some JPGs. You brought them into Develop and made some adjustments. So far so good. You then think, “I don’t …

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With the release of Lightroom 1.3 came the first SDK. While it only extends Export functionality it is a very powerful and welcome addition to the application.
As an example, I used the Mogrify plugin to export the photo below directly to my web server, and in the process add 2 …

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My “Under the Loupe” tutorial on using an export action to create a custom watermark for the web galleries is finally out in Photoshop User magazine (Sept 07, pg 84). Here’s the nutshell version:

Create watermark action in Photoshop
Turn action into a droplet and save in Lightroom’s Export Actions folder
Configure Lightroom’s …

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Adobe created a document that walks through the process of emailing images from Lightroom:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333743
Some quirks have presented themselves on Windows with certain email
clients. However, another Lightroom user and programmer (Steve Sutherland) created a little application that can make it work. I’ve installed it myself and it works like a charm.
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