The other morning I had the pleasure of finding a female Cecropia Moth hanging out on my garage door. These moths are among the largest in North America, up there with Luna and Polyphemus. This one’s wing span was just over 4 inches. It was… Read More »Visit from a Cecropia Moth
A number of people have reported problems installing their paper profiles on Vista. If you are having the same problem try running the EXE file in compatibility mode for XP: – right-click the exe file – choose Properties – click the Compatibility tab – check… Read More »Installing Epson Print Profiles on Vista
If you attempt to run a slideshow and get nothing but a blank screen you should update your video card driver and give it another go. Yes, even if it had been working just fine in version 1.0.
If you’ve just installed the 1.1 upgrade and launch it for the first time only to find it devoid of all your images or a collection of just a few or older images you most likely did not have your prior working database in the… Read More »Lightroom 1.1 Empty Catalog
Before you run that install you might consider a few precautionary measures to help smooth the transition. Read the ReadMe. Run a backup onyour version 1.0 database with an integrity check. Burn that backup to disk or some other drive for safe keeping. Make sure… Read More »Lightroom 1.1 Upgrade Tips
There are 3 badges that can appear on a thumbnail in the Grid view of the Library module or on the thumbs in the Filmstrip: – the tag shaped badge tells you that a keyword has been applied – the +/– badge tells you that… Read More »Lightroom Badges
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… Read More »Email Photos from Lightroom on Windows
For Lightroom 1-4 Lightroom has several screen modes. You can cycle through them by pressing the F key. Two of the modes (Full Screen and Full Screen with Menu) hide the minimize, maximize and close buttons at the top of the application window. You’d be… Read More »Missing Minimize / Maximize / Close Buttons
How it works depends on where you are viewing the images from. If you are in a collection then the Delete key only removes them from the collection, not delete from the hard drive. If you are in a keyword grouping (selecting a given keyword… Read More »Lightroom and the Delete Key
While it is not possible to add music to a Web Gallery from within Lightroom, Micha Bowers writes about a clever workaround if you are somewhat proficient with Flash: http://www.bluefire.tv/blog/flashgalleries/gallery_tipsandtricks12.html