Confessions of an iPhone Shooter

Wednesday, 4th August, posted in Thoughts, 10 comments.

Ok, so I have a confession to make! I am an iPhone shooter, BUT, until I thought about it today. I have never really given two hoots about what I did with the images that I have taken with the iPhone. How nuts am I…

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 10 – Import Preferences

Tuesday, 8th June, posted in Videos, add a comment.

Importing images into the Lr catalog has a set of preferences for fine tuning things. If you are not into shooting RAW, then you will want to check this screencast out, so that you can work with Jpeg images in the same you would a RAW image. Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 9 – Drag ‘n’ Drop Importing

Tuesday, 1st June, posted in Videos, add a comment.

This is a cool little feature of Lightroom, where by you can drag n drop images to start the import process. Great if you are in a hurry to see your work. Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 8 – Trouble with External Drives

Tuesday, 25th May, posted in Videos, add a comment.

The trouble with external drives is that they can be unplugged and not connected when you really need the images contained within the drive. Well, in this screencast I will show you what you need to do to reconnect with your images. Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 7 – Importing from an External Drive

Tuesday, 18th May, posted in Videos, 1 comment.

Importing images from an external hard drive is essentially the same as importing from disk. But with a few essential do’s and dont’s… Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 6 – Removing Images

Tuesday, 11th May, posted in Videos, add a comment.

Removing images from the catalog safely is a really important lesson to be learned. You don’t want to delete content that is really important do you? Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 5 – Importing Existing Folders

Tuesday, 4th May, posted in Videos, add a comment.

We all have images on our existing hard drives. So this will probably be the first way you will bring images into your Lr catalog. Enjoy!

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 4 – Finding Folders

Tuesday, 27th April, posted in Videos, add a comment.

I know this seems really basic if you can navigate your way around a computer. But you would not believe the emails I get on the subject of “Where are my images?”

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 3 – Importing from a Device

Tuesday, 20th April, posted in Videos, 4 comments.

Whether its from a card reader or by directly hooking up your camera to the computer. Importing from a device is an important step to take in getting those all important shots onto the computer. So here is what I do to make work for me.

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 2 – Creating a Catalog

Wednesday, 14th April, posted in Videos, 6 comments.

In this screencast I show how to create and use the Lightroom Catalog in preparation for downloading images from a device which will be the next screencast.

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Lightroom Essential Training Part 1 – Where to Store Your Images

Tuesday, 13th April, posted in Videos, 4 comments.

Welcome to the new look screencasts on LPS. We have worked very hard behind the scenes to make subtle changes to the site based upon customer feedback. The biggest and not so subtle change is the new size 960x600px screencasts, which we believe are the best on the web. So to get you started I am launching my Lightroom Essential Training Series.

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Happy 4th Birthday, its time for a Spring Clean!

Thursday, 8th April, posted in Thoughts, 7 comments.

On April 6th we reached the mile stone of being 4 years old. Yes, I know the archives only go back to August 2009 but thats because the old site got hacked and we had to start again. It was 4 years ago that I setup the first website and thats the date that I mark in the calendar each year. Before that I ran this end of things as an off shoot of my photography website and very soon we will be going full circle. More about that after the jump!

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