This short tutorial shows the basic workflow I use after importing my images into Lightroom. I show you how I use the Pick/Reject and star ratings to quickly narrow down a huge list of images into the final list I will then use for editing.
This video is part of our podcast series that is available on iTunes.
In this tutorial i show you have to take a product shot and make sure you have a perfect white background around it. This will make use of the new retouching tool in Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.
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I am a big fan of doing interesting lighting techniques and have been playing around with using gels to create colored background effects. While using small gels can work pretty good, I have been looking for something that works better, isn’t as fragile, and basically was designed for the purpose. What I found was the Lumiquest FX kit. The FX is a complete colored filter system designed specifically to create colored lighting effects.
For the most part I come home from a shoot and dump the images from the CF cards onto the computer and then do my backups. Once in a while I am gone for a weekend without the benefit of a laptop and I want to make sure I have my CF cards backed up every night. For this reason I picked up a Wolverine Flashpac several years ago and have been using it ever since. Since you should always make backups as soon as possible, I can’t recommend some type of device like this enough.
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This is our first video tutorial and we hope you like it, be sure and leave comments here or in the Flickr User Group and let us know if you want to see more of these. This one is on the new retouching tool that is in the new Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta. This tool allows you to “paint” effects like brightness, exposure, tint, saturation, and clarity into specific areas of an image. In this tutorial we lighten up the background, whiten up our model’s eyes and teeth, and make her lips redder.
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Your’s truely was just a guest on the digital photography show podcast. Please stop by http://www.prophotoshow.net/ and download the podcast while myself, Gavin Siem, Michael Anderson, and Dennis Zerwas discuss the news, new products, Lightroom 2.0, and discuss issues like marketing, insurance, new cameras, and a bunch of other randomness. If you don’t listen to the podcast, you really should.
Adobe has unleashed a beta version of Lightroom 2.0. If you are doing any amount of photo work then you should be using Lightroom. This new version adds some long await tools such as a painting tool that allows you to paint exposure, brightness, clarity, tint, and saturation. A highly anticipated post-crop vignette tool is also a very welcome touch.
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