A few years ago I made a decision in Photoshop that is affecting me greatly today. I chose to save my Photoshop (PSD) files with Maximize Compatibility (MC) turned off. MC saves a flattened version of your file along with...

In addition to storing your raw image adjustments in the Lightroom catalog, you can also save the information to an XMP sidecar file. In this article we examine what information is not kept in XMP.

Earlier this year, I wrote quite a bit on this blog about storage and backing up. Starting with a New Years Storage Resolution, I worked my way up to The Simplest Storage Solution. In short, I keep multiple copies of...

I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all...

With the release of Adobe’s Lightroom Export SDK, developers and users alike can take advantage of Lightroom’s image processing and format conversion engine to do some very cool things. During my search for a Lightroom RAW export plugin I have...

Here at our studio, we began providing RAW processing services for wedding, portrait, and editorial photographers in early 2008. Since then we have processed thousands of photos for clients and have spent countless hours delivering them via client supplied hard...

For quite a few years now I have been in search of the perfect portable image storage device. I have experimented with storage devices from Archos, Epson and a number of not so well known Taiwanese manufacturers. Some of these...

Ever since its arrival, my team and I have become big fans of Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG) file format. Unlike proprietary formats (Nikon NEF, Canon CR2/CRW, etc.), we prefer a format that is openly documented, and supported by Adobe. We’ll...

In the comments to my previous posts about storing a photo library, quite a few people have mentioned using an online backup solution like Amazon S3 or Mozy. I've looked into this many times and keep running the two sets...

In last week's blog post, I mentioned that I was done talking about storage of photo libraries. I lied. Over the course of the last seven days, I've had dozens of conversations with photographers about storage. Even at the end...

Starting out on New Year's Day, I've been writing about storage here on the Inside Lightroom and evidently it's hit a nerve as my fellow blogger Micheal Clark has also chimed in on storage solutions. What with all these posts...

In last weeks blog I asked for feedback and the topic with the most requests was storage solutions. So I thought this week I would cover my storage solution for my images and business files. Back in November 2007 I...

It's been interesting reading people's views and suggestions about how to handle storage for a large photo library. The feedback I've seen on this topic in the comments to my last Inside Lightroom post has spanned quite an impressive range...

New Year's is always a good time for resolutions. Sometimes, the best resolutions are the small approachable ones that solve big problems in your life. For example, one of my big problems right now is storage for my photo library....

About a week ago, my Apple G5 tower suffered a fatal crash. Initially it just froze up - upon restarting, it froze again in several minutes. Sadly, earlier that day, the hard drive I backup all of my business files...

There have been a few posts recently that cover the benefits of traveling with Lightroom while on assignment, and I recently discussed the benefits of using presets to do some of your editing and cataloging dirty work. This post...

I hadn't checked the digital workflow forums in a while and thought I better check to see what is giving Lightroom users problems these days. To my surprise I saw that the biggest issue still seems to be performance related,...

Even though I am pretty used to working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom now and it is part of my everyday personal workflow, I still do not leave my entire life's work on Lightroom, at least not all of it at...

I was going to write a Lightroom post this week but who are we kidding? Nobody is thinking about Lightroom right now. Everybody is still in shock from the newest camera announcements from Canon and Nikon. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III...

I'm back in the US and taking a short break from teaching at the 16th Annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers conference in Corte Madera, California. The attendees are great, and several of them are quite accomplished photographers. It's...