Podcast #88 – Talking with Jason Anderson about building your lighting kit

Kerry and Jason talk about building your first lighting kit on a budget. Everyone needs a lighting kit but many people are intimidated by the upfront costs. In this show, Kerry and Jason walk through …

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Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill – Just how good is it? Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill – Just how good is it?

Probably the most hyped feature of the new Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the incredible new Content Aware Fill. Somewhat like the Healing Brush, Content Aware Fill will use data from surrounding areas to fill in …

Lightroom 3′s Lesser Known New Features Lightroom 3′s Lesser Known New Features

In case you thought that there are only eight to ten new features in Lightroom 3, we wanted to go through and highlight many of the lesser known features and enhancements that have been added …

Lightroom 3 Shortcut Key Cheat Sheet Lightroom 3 Shortcut Key Cheat Sheet

Do you want to become a Lightroom 3 Master? The key to being able to fly through Lightroom 3 is knowing many of the shortcut keys to do different tasks, switch screens, and perform different …

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Learning Center
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Learning Center

With the release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Adobe has upped the ante again with a slew of new features to help photographers to improve their workflow and to create even better images than ever before. Below you will find a handful of videos put together by Kerry Garrison of CameraDojo and Jason Anderson of CanonBlogger.com. Click on the icon to watch the associated video.

Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Watermarking Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Watermarking

One of the biggest disappointments in the Lightroom feature set to date has been the very poor watermarking feature. While Beta 1 included a few more things, it was still no replacement for LR2/Mogrify which …

Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Noise Reduction Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Noise Reduction

With the new release of Lightroom 3 beta 2 there are a number of new and enhanced features available and I will be trying to dig into them and show you the things that I …

Organizing Images From Multiple Cameras/Shooters with Lightroom Organizing Images From Multiple Cameras/Shooters with Lightroom

Have you ever shot with a second camera or used a second shooter and then when you imported the images into Lightroom only to find out that the time on the different cameras was way …

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Import Workflow Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Import Workflow

Mileta Nikoletic (@Mileta on twitter) from Stockholm wrote in to ask how I optimize my import process when using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Basically I do a pretty simple import process using a preset I created to apply the Camera Standard Camera Calibration setting to all images. This gives me a good starting point for working with my images. In this video I show how to create the Camera Standard preset and then apply it to images during import.

Using a Light Meter for Proper Exposure Using a Light Meter for Proper Exposure

I have heard the phrase “I don’t need no stinking light meter” more times than I can count, your LCD display and histogram are all you need for a perfect exposure right? Would you be surprised if I told you that your camera was lying to you? We first need to know why our LCD and histogram is wrong before we can believe that using a light meter will be of benefit.

Podcast #44 – Conversation with Sara France – Introduction to Apple Aperture Podcast #44 – Conversation with Sara France – Introduction to Apple Aperture

Are you a total Apple Aperture N00b like David and I are? If so, then you may want to listen to this podcast featuring our good friend Sara France. Sara is very well known for her Apple Aperture skills and she walks us through some of the basics of getting started with using Aperture and how to use some of the very cool features like Smart Albums and the Book designer.