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Web Gallery A-Go-Go

Rikk Flohr, photographer, trainer and Twin Cities Lightroom User Group member, recently presented “Building a PayPal Functional Web Gallery in Lightroom” using LightroomGalleries.com’s HTML and Flash PayPal galleries at the March UG event. He’s created a follow up article here for folks who couldn’t be at the event.

For photographers looking for a web gallery designed specifically for the the iPhone, Matthew Campagna from The Turning Gate released his TTG iPhone Portfolio Gallery.

Additionally, Matthew has set out to produce a series of tutorials walking users through their first Lightroom-produced website. His first article “An Introduction to FTP: Putting your stuff online” tries to demystify FTP for folks who find putting their work online a daunting task.

Christian Løverås, of Oslo, Norway, blogs about adding Google Analytics JavaScript to Lightroom HTML web template.

Finally, a round up of resources for creating your own gallery templates for use in Lightroom’s Web module:

Sean McCormack’s 5-part series on creating a Lightroom Gallery:

Anatomy of a HTML Gallery
The galleryInfo.lrweb file
The manifest.lrweb and html files
Adding styles
Live Update

While folks have been reverse engineering Lightroom’s web templates since the initial beta with some help from the LR team, the web engine functionality is now officially documented in Lightroom’s SDK.

Saving Time with Local Adjustment Presets

Kelly Castro is an amazing photographer who also happens to be a quality engineer on the Lightroom development team. He has put together a short blog post on creating and using local adjustment presets in Lightroom.

Check out Kelly’s black and white tutorial here and his flickr photostream here

On first glance, the Local Adjustment Panel in Lightroom 2 can be a little intimidating.

One way to make this powerful feature easier to use is to take advantage of its ability to save regularly used groups of effects as presets. Like other types of presets available throughout Lightroom, the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter presets allow you to spend more time enhancing your images and less time dialing in settings.

Saving a Local Adjustment Preset is simple. To see how simple, let’s take a step-by-step look at the creation of two presets that are useful for portrait retouching.

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Lightroom Tweets

Melissa Gaul, Lightroom Technical Evangelist and the Melissa in MelissaRGB, has begun posting nuggets of Lightroom goodness to Twitter.

Other Lightroom team members on Twitter (in a personal and/or professional capacity):

Eric Scouten – Computer Scientist
Tom Hogarty – Product Manager
Troy Gaul – Project Lead
Philip Clevenger – Experience Design Manager
Kevin Tieskoetter – Computer Scientist
Jeffrey Tranberry – Photoshop QE Product Lead & Lightroom Evangelist

Adobe TV tweets updates to free video content featuring expert insight, tips and tricks for Adobe products including Lighroom.

For those interested, Serge Jespers has compiled a list of Adobeans on Twitter here.

Under the Hood with Winston Hendrickson

Our own Winston Hendrickson, Sr. Director – DI Engineering, recently sat down with Derrick Story to discuss Lightroom, Photoshop, Bridge, and Adobe Camera Raw.

Derrick writes, “During this chat in a conference room at Adobe headquarters, Winston and I talk about what’s happening under the hood for Bridge, ACR, and Photoshop. He explains lots of goodies such as, the difference between the Lightroom and Bridge “databases,” the similarities between the Develop module in Lightroom and the sliders in ACR, improvements in Photoshop, and some great lesser-known features such as Camera Profiles. Terrific, informative interview.”

Listen to the interview here: “Adobe Engineer Pops the Hood on CS4” – Digital Photography Podcast 171

An Evening with Terry White

Join Adobe evangelist Terry White via Adobe Connect for “An Evening with Terry White” where he will cover his Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 workflow from start to finish.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Eastern Time Zone
Location: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/eveningwithterry

Details on the event are on his
Facebook event page

Additional details from Terry in this post’s extended entry.

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Free Adobe eSeminars for Photographers

Adobe has put together a series of free eSeminar for professional photographers to learn more about Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4:

Adobe® Lightroom® 2
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 for photography
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Adobe® Lightroom® 2
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Adobe Photoshop CS4 + Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 – The pro photo solution
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM US/Pacific

See the Adobe Online Events page for details & registration info.

March User Group Event

The Twin Cities Lightroom User Group will meet this Wednesday, March 11, 2009, from 7-9PM.

Topics and speakers include:

Rikk Flohr, professional photographer and trainer, will discuss installing and configuring a custom PayPal web gallery in Lightroom’s Web Module.

Steve Bye, Adobe Certified Instructor and Lightroom beta tester, will share some Library/Develop tips and tricks.

Jeff Tranberry, Photoshop Product Lead and Lightroom Evangelist, will talk about 3rd party plug-ins, Plug-in Manager, and the community around Lightroom Extensibility.

More information on the group’s website and Facebook page.

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 Now Available

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 have graduated from Adobe Labs and are now available as final releases on Adobe.com.(UPDATE:  Use this link to download the new language versions of Lightroom ) These updates include camera support for the following models:(Previously provided in the release candidates of these updates)

  • Nikon D3X
  • Olympus E-30

This update also includes preliminary support for the recently announced Epson R-D1x (and R-D1xG).

The Lightroom 2.3 update includes several bug fixes.

FIXES originally provided in the Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate

  • In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
  • Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
  • A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
  • Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.

FIXES new to the final version of Lightroom 2.3

  • Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.  

Lightroom 2.3 now provides language support for the following additional languages:
(UPDATE:  Use this link to download the new language versions It indicates a trial version but it’s identical to what we’re now shipping from the Adobe.com Store for this new version. Since technically these versions didn’t exist before there was no place to put them on the Update page.)

  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

I’d like to thank everyone who provided feedback on the release candidates of Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 that were posted to Adobe Labs.

Adobe and Default Browsers

In January, CNET ran an article titled “Time for vendors to stop foisting IE onto consumers” which asks “Why the hell do Adobe CS4 help and Lightroom geotag links launch Internet Explorer? It’s not even my secondary browser, much less default.”

According to Andy Rahn, an engineer on the Lightroom team, there is no bias toward which browser is invoked from Lightroom, we simply look to the operating system registry for what the user has defined as the default browser. That’s not to say this always works correctly. There may be issues with certain browsers registering with the operating system correctly as the default browser.

In a follow up with the individual who originally reported the problem on Twitter, it sounded like the issue may be specific to Google Chrome and the Vista 64-bit operating system. Google released an update yesterday that includes changes that include: “Fixed several problems with making Google Chrome the default browser on Windows Vista.”

If you’re experiencing applications not launching the correct browser, try setting the default browser manually.

[Update: Stephen Shankland posted an update: Adobe’s default-browser advice worked for me. Thanks to Stephen for working with us to track down this issue and post additional details. – JT]

New Export Plug-In and Develop Presets on Exchange

Prolific developer Jeffrey Friedl has released yet another tasty ‘export filter’ called “Run Any Command”. Jeffrey writes on his blog:

‘This plugin provides an “export filter” (but in the official Lightroom vernacular, it’s a “post-process action”). The point is that unlike a full export plugin (such as my “Export to Flickr” plugin), this filter (post-process action) can be used with any export from Lightroom. It can be used in conjunction with the standard “Files on Disk” export, in conjunction with one of my other plugins (e.g. “Export to Zenfolio”, “Export to PicasaWeb”), and/or in parallel with other third-party export filters (such as my “Metadata Wrangler” Metadata Wrangler or Tim Armes’ “LR2/Mogrify” for watermarking).’

Sean McCormack has released “LRB Dragan,” a set of free grunge type presets.