http://thephotogeek.com Digital photography toys and techniques Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lightroom’s snapshot feature is a great way to create a permanent record of the current develop settings for an image.  You can record multiple snapshots against a single image, storing the different interpretations you made while developing it and allowing them to be recalled at the click of a ... http://thephotogeek.com/easily-create-lightroom-3-snapshots/ A Quick Rundown of Available Resources to Help You Get Started Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 (LR3) is finally out of beta! The Lightroom team’s official blog announced earlier this week that Lightroom 3 is Now Available.  They also shared a list of Lightroom 3 Resources to get people ... http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom-3-released/ If you are a Lightroom plugin developer you need to try my new Test Harness plugin.  Why?  It will save you time. It immediately shows the impact of code changes as you make them.  This might not sound like a big deal at first, but when hunting tenacious bugs ... http://thephotogeek.com/writing-lightroom-plugins-test-harness/ Lightroom is adept at managing the digital photography workflow from camera through to output, but it currently doesn’t help gather your client’s feedback that will influence the processing and final output of your work.  Photographers today must either present the photos to their client using Lightroom, and mark the selects ... http://thephotogeek.com/ttg-web-gallery-client-selections-lightroom/ A little over a week ago Tom Hogarty – Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – announced the Lightroom 3 public beta (download here).  Its been more than a year since the last version of Lightroom was released so I was keen to see what improvements had been ... http://thephotogeek.com/import-improvements-lr3-beta/ I met my new little niece for the first time yesterday (hi Sophie!).  Before the visit I wanted to brush up on my newborn photography skills because it has been a while since I’ve had to deal with such a tiny and delicate subject. A recent tweet pointed me ... http://thephotogeek.com/photographing-babies-refresher/ Most Lightroom users find themselves occasionally needing to step outside of its non-destructive workflow and use a “pixel pushing” (i.e. destructive) editor to finish processing a photo.  The obvious choice for that task is Photoshop.  But do you really need all that power if 99% of your work has already ... http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom-workflow-photoshop-elements-vs-photoshop/ Update: Newer version(s) of this plugin are now available.  Please visit the Elemental plugin page to download the latest version. ... http://thephotogeek.com/elemental-lightroom-photoshop-elements-plugin/ My recently released Config Backup plugin helps you backup your Lightroom configuration files and compress Lightroom generated catalog backup files.  To access these features you use one of the new menu items it adds to the File menu’s Plug-in Extras sub-menu. Customisable Configuration Backups – Allows ... http://thephotogeek.com/config-backup-plugin-update-20090606-002/ Many Lightroom plugins add new menu items to the Lightroom user interface.  Examples include my own Config Backup plugin, those from the prolific Jeffrey Friedl (the grandmaster of Lightroom plugin development) and recent pluginitis victim John Beardsworth.  Adobe decided to bury these new menu items in Plug-in Extras sub-menus found ... http://thephotogeek.com/keyboard-accelerate-lightroom-plugin-extras/