LR3,Photography,Resources,Tutorials,Update         21 comments

Adobe has just released Lightroom 3 Beta! Now before you rush out and start downloading I’d like to give you my take on this beta release to help you get off on the right foot.

 LR2,Photography,Tutorials         4 comments

Want to take your Lightroom experience to the next level? Sign up for my online Lightroomers Guide to Lightroom class. Thanks for visiting!I had the opportunity to write a guest blog post as a sort of follow up to my Layers Magazine article. Head on over to x-equals.com to read …

 Export,LR2,Tips,Web         8 comments

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 …

 Export,Tips         No comments

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 …

 Export,Tutorials,Web         5 comments

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 …