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Stacking images in Lightroom

reedcat — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:01:57 +0000

When you have a lot of similar images from a shoot, you can organizing them using the Lightroom Stacks feature. This allows you to stack images together so that only one image representing the stack appears in the Grid, Filmstrip and Loupe. This can clean up the screen reducing the number of images you see. To [...]

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Stacking images in Lightroom

Tip – A Bunch of Crop Tool Tips

reedcat — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:12:35 +0000

It’s Friday and I’m heading up north to shoot my sister-in-law’s wedding. Wish me luck Anyway, I figured I’d close out the week with a few crop [...]

How Backing Up Just Saved My Butt

reedcat — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:01:25 +0000

You probably always hear people talk about backing up right? Well something happened to me recently that I figured I’d share in hopes that anyone not backing [...]

The 5 Places I use Lightroom Presets The Most (And the least)

reedcat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:33:55 +0000

If you’ve ever looked into Lightroom’s Presets folder (Lightroom Preferences > Presets area) you’ll see there are actually a lot of different areas in Lightroom that have [...]

Arrange Files Your Way in Lightroom

reedcat — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:08:11 +0000

Often when you’re working in Lightroom you will want the images to be sorted in the order that you want to see them, not in as order such as capture date which is one of the Lightroom sort options. You may want to do this when assembling images for a slide show or for printing, [...]

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Arrange Files Your Way in Lightroom

Worth-a-click

reedcat — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:56:44 +0000

Here's a few things worth checking out as you surf around the web today. First a couple of "me" things: • I just turned my new portfolio website live over at MattKloskowski.com. • A good friend of NAPP (Firgs) has an interview with me posted on her website (lots of other NAPP interviews as well). • Finally, in other [...]

Preset – Warm and Fuzzy Effect

reedcat — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:56:25 +0000

Hey folks. I'll be heading out to teach at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai later this week (by the way, if you have any "must shoot" places out there please let me know). Anyway, I wanted to make sure I got another preset in before I left. I called this one "Warm and Fuzzy" because [...]

How to Publish Images from Lightroom to Flickr

reedcat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:01:55 +0000

If you’re a keen photographer, chances are that you publish some of your photos to Flickr for sharing with friends and family. One of the disadvantages of Lightroom 2 is that it does not come with a built in tool for publishing direct to Flickr although this has been addressed in Lightroom 3 which does [...]

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How to Publish Images from Lightroom to Flickr

Tip – The Quick Way To Panels

reedcat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:18:25 +0000

I just got back to my hotel room from the Photoshop 20th Anniversary Party in San Francisco. You know, I knew it was going to be fun, but I have to say it totally rocked. A big thanks to all that made it out for the event. The crowd was great and the people who [...]

Just How Good is Recovery in Lightroom

reedcat — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:39:35 +0000

This week on DTown TV (the show should be up at some point today - or maybe tomorrow) I talked a little about metering when it comes to snow and I briefly jumped into some post-processing talk about what you can do if you have blown out highlights. Below is an example of a photo [...]