In this tutorial I will show you how the white balance picker works in Camera RAW. This tool will let you quickly select the right white balance for an image and then sync it across all the images from one shoot without having to use presets.
In this tutorial I want to give you an idea of how you can crop photos creatively to save a bad photo you thought you couldn’t do anything with or go outside of the formats you normally capture to show something different.
After I demo Lightroom to a crowd of die-hard Photoshop and Bridge users, or just show it to someone for the first time there is always a slight fear that they will start working with Lightroom in the wrong way. Everyone just wants to get it right the first time and I completely get that. Therefore, I thought I should share what I have started doing since a couple of weeks ago. You see, I am starting over again with my Lightroom library.
I have been shooting for many years now and I have been using Lightroom since the very first beta versions before version one. Not only have the software changed dramatically over these years, but so has my photography. For the first few years when I started becoming more serious with my shooting, I improved a lot. This led to me not wanting to keep or see the old photos that I had taken even just six months before.
My Lightroom library is a mix of different types of photography for different purposes and different levels of seriousness. Today, I find that to be utterly confusing and not helpful at all. Plus, in the past year or two, my photography has pretty much been at a stand still. There has just been too many other things going on in my life.
Now that I am beginning to pick it up again, I want a clean start.
So, what am I doing? Well, I will be starting with a brand new catalog where only photos from today and on will end up. These are however only photos that I set out to take as part of a photo shoot. No iPhone photos in this catalog. No photos from the family get-together. Just photos that had the purpose of beautiful photography (regardless of the end result though…).
I hope this new start will give me an easier time organizing all new photos coming in as well as helping me kick-start my passion for photography as I no longer have to wade through the mess that was my old photo library. It’s a fresh start for a fresh time.
The morale of the story is that you can just decide to start over whenever you want, keeping your old catalog files as reference, not having to go back again and re-add your old photos. Just archive and move on, be happy and keep shooting better stuff!
In this tutorial I will show you how to save and load selections in Adobe Photoshop. Doing this will allow you to go back and load complex selections that you have made, saving having to do selections over and over again.
In this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I will show you two selections tools that are highly useful but often forgotten: The grow and similar commands. Both of these commands help you take a selection and expand it to include similar colors, either in connection with the current selection or all over the image.
Today I came across a wonderful Lightroom plugin that I wanted to share with you. It’s called LRTimelapse and is a free plugin that you can download. It will help you create time lapse movies around many parameters.
Examples and use cases
- Alter the white balance over the time (for example for sun sets)
- Deflicker
- Make Ken-Burns effects (pan/zoom)
- Fade in / fade out
- Continuously saturate / desaturate
- and many more…
You can download the LRTimelapse plugin for Lightoom here.
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a simple image slider using Adobe Edge. This is a good practice tutorial to start using Edge and learn its basics.
Äntligen har Google+ byggt in möjligheten att skapa sidor för företag på plattformen. Du kan alltså idag gå till Google+s sida för att skapa en sida (mycket meta…) och skapa en sida för ditt företag.
Trevligt att se att Google tar ansvar för att Google+ fungerar bättre, både genom sidor och möjligheten att Google Apps konton kan använda G+, en funktion som kom för några veckor sedan. En funktion som fortfarande väntas är möjligheten att slå ihop två Google+ konton (icke-apps till Apps-konto).
Adobe har idag släppt Photoshop Elements 10 och Premiere Elements 10 på Mac App Store. Använder du Mac och föredrar att köpa program på App Store, går detta alltså nu bra med Elements-programmen. Fördelen är förutom att ha alla program i Mac App Store, att du sparar lite pengar. Både Photoshop Elements 10 och Premiere Elements 10 kostar 599kr via app store.
Thanks to Dave Cross Workshops, I’ll be down in sunny Tampa, Florida in December, teaching a class on WordPress for Photographers and I hope you are going to join me there. Examples of what we will be covering are: Portfolios and Galleries, Integration with Lightroom/Bridge, Analytics, Blogging, Setting up WordPress and the Basics and more techniques and features that will help your site bring you new clients.
If you are near Tampa, or fancy combining a nice get-away from the cold (like I’m doing), please join me on December 8 for just $59. Register today!