Hey! Rebel Fish was working in LR and happened to press the option key while in Library mode. If you have the quick-Develop pane open with Tone Control, etc. extended, you will see Clarity change to Sharpen and Vibrance change to Saturation. Your keywords (if shown) will display how many images are in that particular keyword. If you’re in Develop mode, you’ll see the settings give you an option to reset.
Try it. It’s super fun.
RF
Rebel Fish talked with Kevin Swan about using LR on two machines… Here’s what he had to say:
If you want to work with LR on two computers, the only thing you need to sync is the Lightroom Library. The raw files are irrelevant, since they aren’t actually edited.
So…
Import the photos into your library on your desktop.
Copy your LR library (wherever you have it) to your laptop.
Copy the raw images you want to work on from your desktop to your laptop.
Launch the LR library on your laptop.
Go to the library view
Because the raw images you are wanting to work on are in a different location than what the library remembers, the folder they were in (and all the other folders) will be red.
Double click on the folder that contains the images you want to work in.
It will ask where the photos are, point it to the new folder.
Make your edits as usual.
After you’re done editing, you copy ONLY the LR library back to your desktop (replacing the old one)
Launch LR on the desktop.
Because the library thinks the photos are in whatever location they were on your laptop, the folder will again be red.
Double click the red folder, point it to the location where the original raw files are.
Everything will then be synced up.
It sounds complicated, but it’s not once you’ve done it a few times.
When I used to have a desktop machine I:
Import all the shots into LR and download the raw to a folder on the desktop.
Make my edits to my favorites.
Run my slideshow.
Get home.
Copy my LR library file over the old one on the desktop.
Copy the raw folder from my laptop to whatever location i want on the desktop.
Launch LR and repoint the folder to the new source.
Done.
Easy as cake.
Piece of pie.
Lots of folk love to get that old-school look to their new-school photos. It’s pretty simple and only requires a couple seconds.
Take a photo.
Make it black and white or sepia.
Find a cool textured background (search for ‘old paper’ or ‘old photo’ on google).
Place the background texture above your image on a new layer in PS.
Choose “hard light” as the form of blending for the layer.
Adjust opacity to suit taste.
Here’s a quick example that took about 15 seconds:
Don’t say Rebel Fish never hooked you up:
The authors of three excellent Flash-based web photo galleries, Airtight Interactive, have agreed to let Adobe integrate with Lightroom! Download Adobe Photoshop Lightgroom Web Gallery Templates for SimpleViewer, Postcard Viewer, and AutoViewer:
SimpleViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_simpleviewer.zip
PostcardViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_postcardviewer.zip
AutoViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_autoviewer.zip
Unzip the archives, and save them into the “Web Galleries” directory in your Lightroom settings folder:
Mac OS X : /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries
Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\[username]]\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries
Windows Vista : C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries
If you still struggle in Windows, try the following:
In web mode.
Create a user template.
Right click on user template.
Select “show in explorer”It will open the window on your harddrive where the files need to be uploaded.
Relaunch Lightroom. These should now be visible in the Web module. Enjoy!
20 Presets to rock your Lightroom workflow! Now, you can speed up your work flow and have amazing looking images with the click of a button. Kevin Swan has released his Lightroom Presets to NSP! Kevin spent hours developing each preset and you can take advantage of all his hard work. Save yourself the hassle of endless tweaking in Lightroom. Use these as a starting point for your images. You can even copy and tweak them to create your own, custom presets!
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Rebel Fish has discovered a faster way to get to punctuation and capitals for all you iPhone users:
Instead of pressing the .?123 button and then pressing your punctuation, try pressing .?123 - but don’t let up - then drag your finger to the punctuation you desire and release. It’s a way to do punctuation and numbers in one stroke. It works with cap letters, too!
Happy 4th of July! The LaCour Video is now 50% off (download only) for 1 month!
Go USA!
Rebel Fish has been painfully aware of the NewSchool store getting slower and slower. She’s fixed it! It’s faster than ever, so if you want to shop–shop hard!
We’re editing a video featuring David Jay and Kevin Swan right now… AND, we have an exiting new series that we’re working on the pilot for–be on the lookout for that in the next month or two.
Fish, OUT!
Here’s a video from Kevin Swan’s kid, Sol, demonstrating the ease of the iPhone.