I recently had the pleasure of talking with Bob Sacha from MediaStorm (www.mediastorm.org) about the state of the photography industry, where it is going and how photographers can differentiate themselves from the pack - the pack which is getting huge...

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...

Several weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the new SlideShowPro plug-in for Lightroom. Since that blog post I have gotten a chance to play around with SlideShowPro quite a bit and I have completely revamped my photography website...

Last week, Dominey Design, the makers of SlideShowPro, announced that they have created a new version of the popular slideshow software that works within Lightroom. Ever curious to find new ways of using Lightroom I downloaded a copy of the...

I really like emailing slideshows as a way of showing the results of a shoot or of telling a story, rather than just emailing a series of shots. For one thing, most slide show programs have some way of automatically...

I've already written about the Slideshow module in a general way in an earlier O'Reilly blog. This blog is just to emphasize it's use as a quick way to communicate the results of a shoot to a remote client, fan,...

This series of my blogs is all about how I make use of Lightroom's workflow. I have to confess that I've left out one logical step in the overall workflow, camera calibration, because I simply haven't found a strong enough...

A few weeks ago, I was asked to produce a slideshow for our New Mexico chapter of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers). The slideshow would run continuously at the Photo Arts Santa Fe tradeshow in the ASMP-NM booth on...

One little fancy feature that many miss is the Templates that can be saved in the Print Module and in the Slideshow and Web Modules as well. I'll just cover the Print Module here as the others function in pretty...

Mikkel's wonderful book titled, Photoshop Lightroom Adventure is nearing completion. What makes this effort so unique is that it combines an expert guide with gorgeous images from Iceland, all captured by the Iceland Adventure Team. It's coffee table meets workstation....

When you want a really clean, smooth, commercially professional-looking slideshow, Lightroom is a good place to turn. Unfortunately, narration, jazzy transitions, and Ken Burns zoom and pan effects aren't in the plan. Not that you want to do all those...

Because Adobe Lightroom marketing has so far only been targeted at professional and enthusiast level photographers, the consumer can be forgiven for thinking that Lightroom is useful as an organizing, editing and presentation tool for photographers only. The slideshow and...

I love it when the real world meets the book-writing world, as it did last week when I was finishing up the slideshow chapter for my O'Reilly Lightroom Adventure book Derrick Story was down from Sebastopol and we were in...