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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 Tweetcaster and 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 (April 21, 2013)

Well, if you haven’t heard already, Adobe released Lightroom 5 Beta (Mac / Windows) this past week.  If you’re coming from Lightroom 4, Lightroom 5 Beta adds some very nice enhancements.  If you’re coming from Lightroom 3 or before, then you’ve got some learning to do!  With previous new releases I’ve included links to sites that profile the new features, but this time Adobe’s done it for me.  So, if you’re looking for the new features in LR5, start here: Lr 5 beta resources  I will add a couple of notes of my own, though:

  1. As mentioned by Adobe, this IS a Beta version.  They’re looking for people to provide input and highlight bugs.  There’s a link here where you can do just that.  Because it’s a beta it will not convert your previous LR catalogue(s) and you’ll have to create a new one.  Adobe also recommends you use copies of your images when playing in LR5 and that you use your existing installation for production work.
  2. I installed LR5 on both my desktop (Win 8) and my laptop (Win 7).  The install on the desktop went without a hitch.  I created a new catalog and opened it up.  I installed LR5 on my laptop, fired it up and it got part way through the catalogue creation before crashing.  After that it would start to load, wait about 1/2 second and then crash again.  I won’t list all of the steps I took, but I went through the entire process of rebooting, uninstalling, reinstalling, rebooting, cleaning the Windows registry and all temp files… nothing worked.  I could not figure it out.  Finally in desperation I thought that maybe if I copied my (blank) LR5 catalog from my desktop computer to my laptop I could click on the .lrcat file and open LR5 that way.  In the process of doing that I discovered that LR had created an LR5 catalogue when it hiccuped and the catalogue was corrupt.  I replaced it with the catalogue from the dekstop and LR5 runs fine on both machines now.
  3. I know Adobe recommends working with copies of images, but I’m careful about catalogue and image backups so I’m not going to go that route.  However, at the beginning of this post I recommend turning on ‘autowrite to .xmp‘ in the LR options.  There are pros and cons to this, detailed in our ‘Lightroom, File Management and Metadata‘ post.  However, in this case I have this option turned off in LR5.  This means that any changes to images I make in LR5 will be held only within the catalog, whereas work I do in LR4.4 will be held in the catalogue AND written to the image files.  Otherwise, when working back and forth from one version to the other LR would constantly be asking me if I want to update the metadata read from the files.

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 April 21, 2013.

P.S. II, the Sequel: You can find more of our posts on photography and Lightroom tutorials here.

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

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