http://thephotogeek.com Digital photography toys and techniques Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:06:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Update: Newer version(s) of this plugin are now available.  Please visit the Config Backup plugin page to download the latest version. ... http://thephotogeek.com/reclaim-disk-space-backup-lightroom-config/ Most Nikon DSLR owners are unlikely to have experimented with tethered shooting for one simple reason: Nikon charges in the order of $153 (Amazon) for the required software, where as Canon ships tethered shooting software with their DSLRs at no additional charge. There have been free alternatives available ... http://thephotogeek.com/choosing-nikon-dslr-camera-tethered-shooting-software/