This is now part three in a series of Lightroom 1.3 vs. Capture NX 1.3 comparisons, some of you are probably getting tired of these posts, but if you either have or are thinking about buying one of the new...

Lightroom’s keywording infrastructure is pretty straightforward: by applying any number of keywords to your photos, you are essentially creating a catalog that can be searched through to retrieve photos that match your desired criteria. I have been pretty diligent about...

Entering in metadata about your photographs is one of the more tedious jobs in the digital darkroom. Most of the time, I consider it to be a necessary, but unexciting step. Sometimes, when I'm feeling less charitable, I find it...

This week as I was thinking about a topic for this blog I remembered some features that I would like to see in a future version of Lightroom and I thought I would share those with you. Of course all...

This has been a week full of Nikon anxiety for me and little less. The big question for the last week has been, will I get one of the first batch of the new Nikon D300? And the answer is,...

Although I rarely use the Split Tone panel in the Develop module (and I bet you can say the same), there are a couple of situations in which I find it extremely useful: Toned Black and Whites and full color...

In the world that goes in my laptop, I find that there are few things more refreshing than grabbing an updated piece of software that I rely on and taking a walk through its halls, both in familiar and unfamiliar...

Compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard is one of the bullet points of the recent Lightroom 1.3 release. Now that I've had a few days to work with the release, I can indeed confirm that Lightroom 1.3 gets along with...

With the recent update of Lightroom to Version 1.3 late last week I thought I would cover some of the improvements that have been made with this latest version...so without further ado here they are: 1. Vastly improved Speed! I...

Since we now have two brand new versions of the RAW image processor from Nikon and Adobe, I thought that today would be a good day to do a quick comparison test of a Nikon NEF file from a Nikon...

It's out. The release we've all been waiting for—at least for the last few weeks. Lightroom 1.3 has hit the streets and brings support for running Lightroom on Leopard, some new camera models, and an export SDK. The new cameras...

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...

After picking up my bags (and other things) and moving to Southern California this past week, I did what I always do when arriving in a new location: I picked up my camera and headed out to take some...

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...

A few days ago John Nack posted an interesting story on his Adobe Blog. The title of which being, "Photoshop, as seen through Johnny Cash". The article compares the development of Photoshop over the last twenty years as being...

One of the very few annoying things in my Lightroom Experience has been what I perceived as the awkwardness of storing and moving my photographs to different media and drives as my work moved along. Often, in fact, if I...

Like Michah over on the Inside Aperture blog, I was surprised to see the InfoTrends RAW workflow tool survey numbers that John Nack of Adobe published last week. If you haven't seen them yet, they basically indicate that about 2/3rds...

Not all of us have bleeding–edge hardware to run their processor and memory–hungry software on (*cough* Lightroom and Aperture *cough*). My mobile machine — a 3–year old 15” Powerbook (1.5 GHz G4 w/ 1.5 GB RAM) — is definitely...

Last week I discussed a technique for adjusting white balance in the Develop module of Lightroom. While writing that blog I thought it might be instructive to blog about how I work in the Basic Panel (right hand panel) in...

It looks like the upcoming release of Lightroom, which is supposed to bring compatibility with Leopard, may bring more. Todd Dominey wrote the following on the SlideShowPro News blog: A frequent request from many, I'm pleased to announce that in...

This post is a continuation of last weeks post on Exporting and Saving JPEG images for website use. I'm not a software engineer so I can't explain what really goes on with this application aside from that it makes the...

I've discovered myself forgetting to make settings in my files that I have discovered need making for virtually every image I shoot with my current ca'mera. All I have to do to set those settings without changing the settings that...