Lightroom 2 Quick Tip: Put Your Favorite Photos on Your iPhone

January 12, 2009

Got an iPhone (or iPod Touch)? Looking for a quick way to take your favorite photos with you? Follow along with this demo:
Step 1: Choose the photos you want to export. Ideally, put them in a collection so you can update this later. A keyword or folder will work too.

Here, I’ve chosen a collection with [...]

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Lightroom 2.2 Is Out!

December 15, 2008

Lightroom 2.2 was released a couple of hours ago. Tom’s announcement covers all the gory details, but a couple of highlights are worth mentioning:

Canon 5D Mark II support (ooh, ahh … I want one! )
Canon PowerShot G10 support
Camera Raw profiles added
Bunch o’ bugs fixed

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Suggest New Blog Topics Via Skribit

December 15, 2008

I’ve just signed up for Skribit, which allows you, my loyal readers, to suggest topics for this blog. I’ve seeded the suggestion box with a few ideas that are sitting unfinished in my Drafts folder. I’ll use your votes to help decide which items get attention in my copious blog-writing time.
I’m open to writing about [...]

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WordPress Anti-Pattern: Don’t Remove Trailing Slashes in URLs

December 15, 2008

I’ve had an unusual burst of inbound links to this site lately, and it just occurred to me last night that there are no visible trackbacks or pingbacks.
Hmmm. After temporarily changing themes, temporarily disabling plug-ins that might interfere with trackbacks and comments such as Akismet (which is absolutely wonderful, BTW!) and No Self Pings, I [...]

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Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why

October 20, 2008

Update (September 2009): I’ve changed my workflow fairly significantly from what is described here. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”
In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made the choices I’ve [...]

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New Northern Gardener Article

October 18, 2008

Those of you in and around Minnesota might want to wander down to your local bookstore in the next couple weeks so you can pick up a copy of Northern Gardener magazine. The September-October issue carries a new six-page article on landscaping technique written by my mother and photographed by yours truly.

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PhotoCalc: A Nifty iPhone App for Photographers

August 14, 2008

Adair Systems has released a handy little calculator for photographers. I’ve just downloaded it and I can already tell it will be very handy.

In addition to the calculators you might expect (exposure calculator, depth-of-field, and flash exposure), it can also tell you sunrise and sunset for your current location on any date (assuming you have [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Smart Collections and Worklists

August 4, 2008

Note: Last year, on the Lightroom Journal, I wrote about using worklist keywords to keep track of your keywording efforts. In this article, I look at some new and improved ways to accomplish the same thing with Lightroom 2.0.
I use worklists to keep track of work I want to do on my photography collection. It’s [...]

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iPhone App Store Gotcha: Syncing a Phone with Multiple Machines

July 15, 2008

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve been experimenting with downloading apps on my iPhone. Mostly it’s a good experience, although I’m looking forward to the apps maturing a bit.
I got burned today by iTunes’ handling of downloaded apps and I thought I should share it with those of you who use multiple machines.
I have two [...]

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