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» 5 Great Lightroom Resources

While Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a great program in and of itself, that some wouldn’t really think about extending further than development presets, there are a few really good resources that does make the application more powerful.

LRG Complete 3

LRG Complete 3 is one really cool web gallery that you can add into the web module. It lets you basically create a whole site, with shopping cart and all! Plus it does look nice as well. The best about it all is probably that it is fully free! You can view a sample gallery demo on their site or just go and download it directly here. Definitely go and check that out!

LRB Portfolio

Moving on with another web gallery, the LRB Portfolio, produced by Sean McCormack, lets you basically create a Lightroom gallery that behaves like a portfolio site and less like a Lightroom generated gallery. A word of warning if you are using LR 1 though, it does only work with Lightroom 2 and above. It’s available on his site for €10.

Graduated Filters

New in Lightroom 2 was the graduated filter tool and with it comes the ability to create presets for it, which is what Sean McCormack has been doing. He’s created a magnificent set of graduated filters that you can just apply with a click to any photo. You can buy them from his site, for €5.

Camera Profiles

This real goodie shouldn’t really be left out from the mix here just because it is from Adobe itself! In your camera, you have a few profiles that render your image differently, and going from a RAW file showing on your back LCD screen, to the RAW viewing in Lightroom will definitely be a change, because on the LCD screen of your camera, it’ll need to convert the image for viewing. Therefore you can get these profiles, to mimic what you saw in the camera! Download them here at Adobe Labs.

Learning, Blogging and Extending - combined!

If you like to learn new things about Lightroom in a video format, as well as read a good blog and extend the program with presets? Then you should go and surf over to Matt Kloskowski’s blog and website Lightroom Killer Tips. On there, he posts a new video tip and tutorial every week as well as a weekly preset and some discussion inbetween. It’s simply a great resource!

» Lightroom 2 is released!

Adobe has today announced the immediate availability of Lightroom 2 which is really cool. It’s got a lot of new and cool features and you can read more about it in the full press release. If you want to take a look at all the new features and videos about them, the great people over at NAPP (the National Association of Photoshop Professionals) have launched a Lightroom 2 Learning Center with all the new features (and the cool stuff) covered! I’m going to get some videos up on the new Lightroom features in due course here as well and stay tuned for a post about my favourite features once I’ve gotten to play with it for a while.

» Brand new Pixelmator tutorials!

 I’ve updated the tutorial section today with a couple of brand new Pixelmator tutorials after a lot of requests for those. I’m working on a bunch more of tutorials at the moment as well and if you want to see any special one, leave a comment here or on the contact form Below here is a list of the just added tutorials!

 

• Combine two images easily
• Make a gleaming sunlight effect - Part 1
• Make a gleaming sunlight effect - Part 2
• Create a Zoom Burst effect

 

» Site Update Galore

 There’s just about only one reason to why you didn’t get a news post here yesterday. I’ve been working hard, especially yesterday, to expand the tutorials sections a little bit and I’ve made a long list of subjects to cover, so far in Lightroom, Photoshop and Bridge but I am going to make some lists for the other applications as well however. If there is any subject or effect or anything you would like me to cover in a tutorial, please leave a comment on this post and I’ll read and add to my list (as long as it is possible to do).

Now the good thing isn’t tha tI’ve made a list, it is that I’ve started recording many of the tutorials and I’ve even posted a bunch of them up on the site! Lightroom has gotten an amazing number of new tutorials over two days;

• Using the Find panel in Lightroom
• Exploring the Lightroom white balance tool
• A quick look at the develop module
• Using the Identity Plate
• Learn how the Painter Tool works
• Exporting from Lightroom

The Photoshop category has also got some updates which are currently being uploaded and processed so check in there later today. If you guys have missed it, I’ve added a brand new category, Pixelmator. I was getting a lot of requests for Pixelmator tutorials so you’ve got them! 

Alright so that pretty much sums up the changes to the site right now (the reviews are also being updated frequently) and I have some further plans for it coming very soon so sit tight! Also later today I’ll sum up the recent news.

» Back home!

I’m currently back home and I’m catching up to everything that I couldn’t do whilst being away and resuming the project work as well with quite a few customer projects to do right now. Tomorrow will see a usual Monday Newsflash with some cool stuff gathering up for you Oh and by the way, there are two new tutorials up, one on History and Snapshots in Lightroom and the other one about HDR in Photoshop, they are booth in the featured tutorial box up top

» Website Updates!

I don’t know if anyone noticed my updates to the site but there were quite a few this weekend that’ll allow for some cool interaction!

• I’ve added the ability to comment on the tutorials, so if you just want to post a comment or maybe a question or even some tips for me as well. I’d be glad for any comments on the tutorials (and blog posts)!

• Also added is the ability for you to register yourselves on this blog. The advantage is currently that you reserve your name as a commenting name, I’m however thinking about adding some features dependent on the login soon!

• I’ve added, early enough, some cool Christmas decoration to the site as well to get some wintery feel! Enjoy the decoration and if you want to know how I did the snow, stay tuned for a tutorial!

• As another goodie, I made a box on the top of the firs, blog page, with some featured tutorials! Enjoy the quick access to the featured ones which will change as time goes on!

Also, I’m sorry about the fact that no podcast episode has been released yet. I’ve had some problems with my microphone not wanting to record and I’m working on fixing it ASAP. Unfortunately I don’t have any good tutorials in store to air.

Check back tomorrow for some news, now I’m heading to bed (it’s late in my time zone ;)) because of school early in the morning. Have a good continue of the Monday (if you are in the far west) and have a good Tuesday!

» Launching daily quick-tips on the site!

Check out a new feature, the daily quick-tips where each day there will be posted a quick tip on either of the adobe products that’ll help you work with the programs! Once a week you might also get a video quick-tip as well!

So check out this very exciting feature either by choosing the Quick-Tips category in the category picker in the right sidebar or go under the tutorials in the navbar and click on Quick-Tips there or just click this link!

» Monday News Update

So I’ve adapted this format for updates and still manage to find some other stuff in between! Makes some long and nice posts for you to read doesn’t it eh Filled up with some site news and news from myself, a review link as well as some site tips, I think you’ll find this one interesting! Enjoy!

Pixelmator Review

You remember that back in the Wednesday News Update I wrote a little bit about a new program called Pixelmator that was being released, well Justin Seeley has on his blog posted a nice review about this time with the program and also posted a mini-series of video tutorials on how to get started with it! So go over to JustinSeeley.com and check the review out, or click here for the review and here for the video series!
Justin also does two podcasts, the Photoshop Quick-Tips and the Gradient Mesh, check them out as well!

Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast coming soon!

My new podcast is launching quite soon in a week or two. It is called the Creative Suite Tips & Tricks and in it I will cover some tips and tricks over the entire creative suite and all the programs and I will also do themes series on some of the programs like Dremweaver, where you will see tutorials booth in the podcast and here in the site that will be themed on getting started creating your own site, taking advantage of Dreamweaver! I’m really looking forward to be releasing this podcast in the coming weeks!

Tutorials Section fully unveiled!

Yes, just unveiled here on the site is the new tutorial section where you’ll be able to find tutorials on many subjects including all Adobe products and even HTML and CSS as well! So go and check it out either by clicking the new tutorial link in the top navigation or by clicking this link right here!

Website tippers!

I thought I should finish up this Monday News Update with tipping you off on a few of the best sites I know on the web! First off, the largest tutorial site on a ton of things, Pixel2Life is a must view for anyone looking to learn software, with tutorials from Operating Systems to the Adobe applications, you can find all tutorials over at Pixel2Life! The second site, I was recently tipped off on, by my dad, who found this design centered magazine styled blog called Smashing Magazine. This site is jam-packed with goodies on design and more and it is a very valuable resource! So give those two sites a view!