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Photography Links - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Hi There:  A while back I did a post on photography sites that I visit daily or at least with some regularity.  I also have a page on ‘Becoming a Better Photographer‘ that links to about fifty photographers’ websites.

Anyway,  I use Tweetdeck to manage my Twitter account, and through that I receive all tweets related to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.  I seem to be sending the same links to people with regard to Lightroom questions, so I thought I’d add them all in here.  NB:  I won’t even pretend that this list encompasses EVERY page devoted to Lightroom; it doesn’t.  Also, there are new pages being created all the time.  However, this should give you a good start.  I`ll also mention that there are several very good books out on Lightroom, but I haven`t included those here.  BTW, before you go any further, do yourself a favour.  Start Lightroom and go to Edit/ Catalog Settings (Windows) or Lightroom/ Catalog Settings (Mac) and on the Metadata tab, check the box that says, “Automatically write changes into XMP”.  You’ll be glad you did.  It’s off by default, and won’t update .xmp files automatically – you’ll have to tell Lightroom to do it manually.  That’s fine, unless you forget and your catalog becomes corrupted or your drive crashes or… and you lose all of your develop work, metadata/keyword information, etc.  There’s a tradeoff with speed, but in my opinion it’s worth it.  Or you might be better organized than I am… ;-)

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Update (January 10, 2012): Well, six years to the day after the introduction of Lightroom, Lightroom 4 Beta was announced. Time to finally uninstall LR2; I haven’t used it since I upgraded to LR3 beta in 2010, but it was handy to have around.  LR4 looks to hold some great features, and remembering that this is a beta means three things: One, the idea for a public beta is to find bugs and to generate feedback, so please let Adobe know what you discover. Two, don’t use beta software for mission critical production work. Three, LR4 Beta is completely separate from LR3 or LR2 or whatever you’re using now.  You cannot import an LR3 catalog into LR4 Beta.  What I’ve done is, since I have all of my images in one parent folder, I’m importing them into my new LR4 catalog as I type here but I’ve turned ‘Autowrite to .XMP’ off in LR4. That way any changes, etc. I make to existing images in LR4 will be stored in the LR4 catalog database but will not overwrite the existing information I’ve already written out from LR3.  It just means I need to be more diligent with backups, etc.

Now, the main list of LR links is below as before, but several people have put out videos and other information concerning LR4 changes and updates, so here are some of them (in no particular order). There’s probably some repetition, so you can decide if you have a favourite expert to watch/read:

Always remember Rule #5.
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Back to your regularly scheduled blog post…  BTW, you can get to this page from: http://bit.ly/LRTips – it’s a little easier to remember.  Also, for the most part the links below don’t like to specific web pages, but to websites that offer tutorials and information.  At the risk of overstating the obvious, as the people who own these sites add new pages to their sites, the links below will still be valid (but you’ll have to go to each site to see what’s new).  Check them all out, or choose a few that interest you!  One more thing before I get to the rest of the links, and that is if you check under the ‘Photography‘ section of our blog we have a number of other posts related to Lightroom and photography tutorials; you can see a list of them here.

In no particular order:

Well, I ran out of fingers and toes and had to borrow Marcia`s but assuming I can still count there are over 200 links there, and I`d hate to guess how many articles, tips, tutorials and videos.  However, if none of them answers your question, I’d recommend checking out the Luminous Landscape Lightroom Q&A forum.  The Luminous Landscape site itself has a wealth of information on a variety of subjects (including Lightroom), and in thanks to the site`s owner, Michael Reichmann, I`ll give ‘LuLa’ special attention.

Mike.

P.S. As far as I know all of the links are active, but if you come across a broken link or you`d like to add another site, please leave us a comment and let us know.  Last updated January 24, 2012.

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Photography

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