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Best Features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

KerryG — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:15:05 +0000

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of the photography software programs which is developed for Microsoft Windows and Mac operating system X by the Adobe Systems.

The aim of developing this program is in help users to manage digital images in larger quantities. There are many photographers who look for software where they can do the work after production. Lightroom is the interface that includes both editing and photo management. Lightroom is considered as an application database for image management.

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Portrait Retouching with Adobe Lightroom 4

KerryG — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:32:51 +0000

In this installment of Learning Lightroom I will show you some of the basics of portrait retouching within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4. Some of the things we will do will be to remove blemishes, smooth the skin, whiten the teeth, and enhance the eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aliGNAYXDU

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Learning Lightroom – Spot Removal Tool

KerryG — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:07:19 +0000

This week we dig into Lightroom’s Spot Removal tool. Very often this tool is used to remove dust specks or other small blemishes in the image. In this video I will show you how I use it to do different types of touchups including some portrait retouching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_0YsajczQ

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Learning Lightroom: Fake Depth of Field

KerryG — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:00:16 +0000

In this week’s Learning Lightroom video I show how you can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Local Adjustment Brush to “paint” in a blurred effect that is somewhat like a short depth of field look. We do this by dropping clarity, which will smooth out the details in the image. By repeatedly doing it, you can enhance the effect. Check out the video and see how to create the effect.

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Learning Lightroom – Basic Develop Tools

KerryG — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:00:12 +0000

Starting this week I am going to be doing another new weekly series called Learning Lightroom. Each week I will be posting a new video to help you learn everything from the basics of Lightroom to advanced techniques. In this first episode I go over the basic tools in the Develop module to help new users of Lightroom get up to speed and to show users of older versions what Lightroom 4 is like.

Be sure and let me know what you think and if you have any requests on specific topics you would like to see covered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HO61zaCGe0

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How to clean your lenses

KerryG — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:01:12 +0000

Keeping your lenses clean is easier than most people think but does require a few things to make sure you do it properly. This week, I show you the best way to clean your lenses. During the video Kerry uses the LensPen to get the best results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edGrHzuQhOA

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Watermark your images in Lightroom

KerryG — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:40:44 +0000

Many people want to put a graphic or text watermark on their images when they export them which can help cut down on unauthorized use of your images. With Lightroom 4, watermarking has finally grown up, pretty much copying feature for feature from LR2/Mogrify. LR2/Mogrify still wins if you need to add different borders around your image and even place watermarks in the logos, but most of us are going to be quite happy with the new built-in watermarking tool.

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Audio Tip – Zoom H4 Boom Mic

KerryG — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:01:50 +0000

While many photographers want to try their hand at shooting video with their DSLRs one of the biggest problems with shooting video isn’t the video…it’s dealing with the audio. (Why DSLR Audio Recording Sucks and What To Do About It). I have really struggled with getting good and consistent audio and after watching several tutorials recently, I hit upon the idea of rigging up a form of a boom mic from my old Samson Zoom H4.

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How to Use Stock Photography Successfully

KerryG — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:01:17 +0000

Using stock photography can greatly improve your website or project, but if used improperly, stock images can ruin the message you’re trying to convey. There is a fine balance in using stock photography, and it’s important to know the potential pitfalls you can stumble into.

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Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

KerryG — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:00:57 +0000

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is one of the top rated video editing platforms and is part of the Adobe Creative Suite and the new Creative Cloud subscription service. Since the Creative Cloud is putting the power into the hands of many more people, I decided to put out a video to help people get started with it. If you want to see more about using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 be sure and leave a message in the comments and I will create more if there is any demand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWQYQISX6o

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Lightroom 4 Crop Tool

KerryG — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0000

In this video, Kerry Garrison shows some of the features of the Lightroom 4 Crop Tool. The Crop Tool is used to not only crop the image, but also to set the aspect ratio or straighten the image. Learning the crop tool is a basic, yet very important tool for processing your images.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK6Q62Ufz64

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Introduction to the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 4

KerryG — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:04:16 +0000

Many of us who jumped on the Lightroom bandwagon at the beginning quickly learned that about 70%-80% of our work could now been done easier and faster in Lightroom than it could in Photoshop. We only needed Photoshop when we needed to manipulate pixels beyond simple cloning and healing tools. Adobe listened and with Lightroom 2.0 they gave us the Local Adjustment Tool. Over time, the local adjustment brush has grown in features and functionality. The Local Adjustment Tool is basically a masking paintbrush that allows you to apply different effects such as:

Color Temperature
Coolor Tint
Exposure
Contrast
Highlights
Shadows
Clarity
Saturation
Sharpness
Noise
Moire
Defringe
Color

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Lightroom 3′s Lesser Known New Features

KerryG — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:38:28 +0000

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 in this new version.(...)
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Lightroom 3 Shortcut Key Cheat Sheet

KerryG — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:37:50 +0000

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 functions. While this is documented in the Lightroom 3 help files, its easier when you can have a list of the keys right at your fingertips. Rick Miller from Adobe has pruned down the help file to just the shortcut keys and made it available as a PDF file.

To download the Lightroom 3 Shortcut keys file, follow this link:
http://blogs.adobe.com/edtechatadobe/lightroom_3_shortcuts.pdf

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 Learning Center

KerryG — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:01:19 +0000

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.(...)
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Photoshop CS5′s Lesser Known Enhancements

KerryG — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:01:28 +0000

While a half a dozen or so major features are grabbing all the headlines, there is a series of features and enhancements that wound their way into the final release. These changes are part of an internal projects called “Just Do It” that challenged the development team to address a number of requests put forward by the Photoshop user community.

The “Just Do It” features incorporate over 30 different features that address workflow as well as performance issues.

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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Watermarking

KerryG — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:08:21 +0000

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 any hard-core Lightroomer has had to resort to. (ok, I thought about calling us Liters, but that didn’t sound right either)

With Lightroom 3 beta 2, watermarking has finally grown up, pretty much copying feature for feature from LR2/Mogrify. LR2/Mogrify still wins if you need to add different borders around your image and even place watermarks in the logos, but most of us are going to be quite happy with the new built-in watermarking tool.

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Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2: Noise Reduction

KerryG — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:09:22 +0000

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 have found to be the most impressive. First off, is noise reduction. One of the big complaints about Lightroom 2 was it’s poor noise reduction and although new cameras can shoot at huge ISO ranges, many of those ranges have been virtually useless due to the extra noise. With Lightroom 3 beta 2, we now have an all-new noise reduction system that allows you to keep otherwise completely worthless images.

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Organizing Images From Multiple Cameras/Shooters with Lightroom

KerryG — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:00:33 +0000

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 off, making it difficult to edit the images in order? There is actually a very easy way to solve this within Lightroom that once you learn how to do it, you will never worry about having to time-sync the cameras before a shoot.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Import Workflow

KerryG — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:42:56 +0000

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.
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Adobe RGB vs sRGB vs ProPhoto RGB

KerryG — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:42:47 +0000

Mac versus PC, RAW versus JPEG, Coke versus Pepsi, all solid battles in their own right but Adobe RGB versus sRGB is still one that confuses more people than anything else. One of the problems is that there is big name experts on both sides of this argument arguring why their side is right and the other is totally off-base. What we will try to do is to show how both affect images so that you can choose the right one for your situation.

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Complete Guide to Adobe Lightroom Shortcut Keys

KerryG — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:35:52 +0000

Even though all of the shortcut keys are available via the help system, its still a bit hard to really find all of them, what if you could have one PDF document that had them all listed and organized? Well, your wishes have been granted!

My good friend Rick Miller, one of the Senior Solutions Engineers for Adobe has written up a document that will help you learn all of the shortcut keys and put you on the path to Lightroom Shortcut nirvana.

Special thanks to Rick for compiling this list and making it available to everyone!

Download Shortcut List PDF (click here)

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List of Free Adobe Lightroom Presets

KerryG — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:10:36 +0000

We get asked all the time for more and more Lightroom presets and were do find good free ones. I have been working on this list for a while now and will do my best to keep it updated. If you have suggestions for us to add to the list, please leave a comment. I have tried to only list sites that have more than just a couple of presets but if you know of some really good ones, be sure and let me know.

Camera Dojo
We have free and paid sets of Lightroom Presets available Our most popular are our Camera Tools and Dojo Essentials.
Adobe Exchange
There are a growing number of presets available on the official Adobe Exchange website
Lightroom Killer Tips
About once a week Matt posts a new Lightroom preset for free. There are quite a few there now.
Wonderland
Over at Wonderland they have two really nice set of free Lightroom presets
OnOne Software
OneOne Software has 85 free Lightroom Presets designed by Jack Davis
Presets Heaven
Presets Heaven is trying to be the ultimate list of free Lightroom presets
Inside Lightroom
Inside Lightroom has a nice collection of free Lightroom presets organized into different categories
Digital Freak
The folks over at Digital Freak have a file with over 600 free Lightroom presets in it
Gantico
Very nice selection of free Lightroom presets that is added to on a regular basis
Mathias Blix
Mathias created some really creative Lightroom presets and now offers them up for free
X-Equals
Bandon Oelling has created some really nice presets that he has made available
Laconic Stockpile
Really nice sets of B&W and Vinage presets
Gavin Seim
Gavin sells several preset packs but has some free samplers that are really good as well.
Lightroom Presetting Group
This Flickr group has collected over 180 Free Lightroom Presets
Life In Digital Film
free film emulation presets

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Lightroom 2.2 Camera Profiles

KerryG — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:00:26 +0000

With the release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.2, camera profiles are now built in by default. What are camera profiles? Well, let’s look start at the beginning and explain what happens to your images within Lightroom so we have a basis of reference when we get back to figuring out how to use these profiles.

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Advanced Watermarking with Lightroom

KerryG — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:10 +0000

Let’s face it, Adobe seriously dropped the ball on watermarking within Lightroom. Many of us got hints about potential new watermarking features for Lightroom 2.0 but were disappointed when there was nothing added. For many of us, Lightroom is the tool that we use for 90%+ of our workflow including prepping images for use on the web so the last thing we want to do is run some action in Photoshop or have to run an additional application to apply watermarks which reduces the image quality because the jpeg image has to be saved a second time. So is there a solution? The answer is yes, and best of all its extremely flexible.
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Pixel Bender Demo

KerryG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:20 +0000

In this video Kerry shows you a demo of the new Pixel Bender Gallery plugin. This is used to add special Pixel Bender effects to your images from Adobe Photoshop CS4. You will need to download the Pixel Bender plugin and any filters you want to add.:

Pixel Blender: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/pixelbender/
Pixel Blender Plugin Download: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/pixelbender.html
Pixel Blender Exchange: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/

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Cloning and Stamping tool Live Preview with Photoshop CS4

KerryG — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:47:39 +0000

Another new feature in Photoshop CS4 is the Live Preview when using the Cloning and Stamping tool. What this does for you is show you exactly what the effect of the tool is going to be while you are using it. Where you will probably find this to be the most useful is lining things up with the clone tool or making sure color tones and brightness levels match well. This video shows you how this tool work and how it can help you achieve the effect that you are trying to get much easier than before.

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Photoshop CS4 – Where did the features go?

KerryG — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:24:05 +0000

If you have been playing around with Photoshop CS4 you may have noticed that a few features such as Extract and Web Gallery aren’t where they used to be. So where did they go? Photoshop CS4 has replaced some features and moved others to the Bridge Output module.

Most of these features can be added back to Photoshop CS4 by downloading the plugins from Adobe’s website (links below) or accessing them from the Goodies folder on the installation DVD.

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Fluid Zoom and View Rotation in Photoshop CS4

KerryG — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:21 +0000

Today we are going to take a look at a new feature in Photoshop CS4, the Fluid Zoom and View Rotation tools. The Fluid Zoom allows for smooth zooming in and out of an image with much finer control than every before. The View Rotation tool allows you to rotate the view of the image around to make working on an image easier.

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Lightroom Web Gallery Module

KerryG — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:00:11 +0000

Have you been wondering how to export your images from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom? In this tutorial we go through the Web module and look at several different types of web galleries that can be created. You will see how to create a basic HTML or Flash gallery as well as exporting an Airtight Simpleviewer, AutoViewer, or Postcard Viewer slideshow.

p.swf?clip_id=1726327&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”>p.swf?clip_id=1726327&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1″ />
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Web Module from Kerry Garrison on Vimeo.

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Post Production White Balance with Adobe Lightroom

KerryG — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:04:22 +0000

In this video tutorial we take a look at doing white balance correction during post production with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This lesson applies to both Lightroom 1.x and Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.

p.swf?clip_id=2052743&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1″ />p.swf?clip_id=2052743&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” width=”510″ height=”340″>
Correcting white balance with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 from Kerry Garrison on Vimeo.

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