David Allen on GTD
We’ve talked a few times about the GTD system. Here’s a 45-minute video of David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) going over the GTD system at Google.
Intro to Lightroom: NEW!
If you’re still using Bridge or (gasp) Photoshop to edit your images, step out of the stone age and into the future with Adobe Lightroom. Kevin Swan walks you through the basics to get you up and running by the time you’ve finished the video.
Kevin can edit a full wedding from 2000 images to 600 in less than 2 hours. That includes all sorting, final effects, crops, file naming, everything! This video shows you how it’s done.
The video is 45 minutes long and covers the following:
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Sweet Lightroom Addon
Our buddy, Frederick Van, hooked us up with a sweet addon for Lightroom. Slideshow Pro. Click HERE for the website.
It creates a nice slideshow that publishes directly to your website, no muss, no fuss.
The real deal
SlideShowPro for Lightroom contains the same software as our Flash component, but in a compiled form that’s editable from within Lightroom.
No Flash required
No Flash (or Flash experience for that matter) required. Everything is self-contained and ready to export locally or upload to your web site.
Real-time live preview
Change any of SlideShowPro’s 60+ parameters and preview your changes inside a real, working preview of SlideShowPro before you publish.
Savable templates
Publishing more than one slideshow with different settings? Save them as templates you can retrieve anytime to update with new content.
Build your own captions
EXIF, IPTC and file metadata available to build your own custom image titles and captions to display inline or as an image overlay in SlideShowPro.
Integrated FTP upload
Upload your slideshow directly to your web server from within Lightroom without a separate FTP client, and bookmark it for updating anytime you need to.
Quality photo publishing
Built on the industry standard backbone of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom publishes top-quality, web optimized imagery for your slideshow automatically.
Always up to date
Because the engine uses SlideShowPro, it will always be kept up to date with the very latest version available to users of the Flash component.
Clean up that addy-book!
This post, from 43 Folders, made some simple sense to Rebel Fish…
Purging info-poor entries from Address Book
You may share my Address Book pollution problem — having too many orphaned names that got scribbled on a PDA or were manually added but never fleshed out (like: 10 years ago!).
Here’s a really stupidly useful Smart Group for Address Book that helps identify entries without any real information attached to them.
Seem too obvious? Maybe. But it helped me kill eighty-two entries yesterday that might have sat around for another ten years if I hadn’t made it. Yay, obviousness.
Oooh. Neat. Lightroom Trick
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
1 Lightroom Library, 2 Computers
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.
Free Stuff for Lightroom!
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!
Get Yer Swan LR Presets!
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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Yet Another Lightroom Awesome Shortcut
Rebel Fish gasped outloud when she stumbled on this one.
Go to library mode.
View thumbnails OR zoomed into a single image.
Hold command down (the apple key)
You can then just put your fingers on the arrow keys and….
Left / Right arrow go forward back (no big surprise there)
Up arrow will raise your flag status (e.g., if no flag, it is now a pick)
Down arrow will lower your flag status (e.g., if no flag, it is now rejected)
So. You simply cruise through your library thinking UP for “I like it!” and DOWN for “You suck!”
Tada!