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 …
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.
Another significant yet subtle improvement in Lightroom 2 is the means to reconnect missing and offline folders and photos. While preventing your photos from being inadvertently disconnected from the Lightroom catalog is still just as important as it was in Lightroom 1, it’s good to know there are tools to help you get things back in order if you find yourself looking at a catalog full of question marks.
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The Slideshow module was a recipient of a number of new features in Lightroom 2. The basic functionality of the Slideshow module remains the same as in Lightroom …
I came across an interesting alternative for sharing slideshows exported from Lightroom called slideshare. I blogged about it over at peachpit.com, but I couldn’t embed the slideshow in their blogging software, so I put it here to demo:
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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 stop (not pause) a slideshow you can select the next image you wish to start with in the Filmstrip, hold the Shift key and press Play to start on that image instead of the first slide. Otherwise the slideshow will always begin on the first image when restarted.
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