I had the pleasure of chatting with (fellow NAPP member) Jason Anderson over at Canon Blogger about Lightroom, NAPP, the Perfect Picture School of Photography, and my latest book (due out in August) on stock photography.

I’m incredibly excited to see that Adobe has released an update to the original Lightroom 3 Beta! There are a few additions to this release that I am particularly excited about and think you will be too.
My latest guest post is up on Photofocus, and I’ve rounded up the ten most important things you need to know about using the Adjustment Brush.
Check out my guest post on photofocus.com to learn how to get better skies with Lightroom’s Graduated Filter tool.
Check out my guest post on photofocus.com to learn my top tips for working in Lightroom’s Grid view.
Check out my guest post on photofocus.com about how to customize your camera raw defaults in Lightroom.
New guest post up on Photofocus.com on Two Fast Ways to Apply Develop Settings to Multiple Photos in Lightroom. Here’s the steps I use for applying the same crop to multiple photos …
Lightroom is often referred to as a “metadata editor,” meaning that the work you do in Lightroom isn’t applied to the pixels in the source photo, but rather is saved as a set of metadata instructions (inside the catalog file) that are only applied to copies of the source photo during any type of output. Everything you do inside Lightroom, from adding keywords to making tonal adjustments, is recorded into Lightroom’s catalog file.