Software Reviews And Tutorials

Canon 5D MKIII Now Supported in Lightroom 4

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Adobe has released an update today, Lightroom 4.1 which adds RAW support for the Canon 5D MKIII to Lightroom 4.  Looks like it’s time to upgrade finally ! The update also adds support for the new Leica X2 and the Leica Monochrom if your pockets are that deep, as well as adding many new lens profiles such as the worth-its-weight-in-gold Leica Summicron 50mm. Download the updates from Adobe and read a full list of bug fixes and newly supported cameras : Lightroom 4 update. ACR 7.1 update

Photo Mechanic & Lightroom Workflow

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I’ve posted a detailed video about what makes Photo Mechanic a must have program for many journalists and sports photographers before. But many people also like the easy adjustment tools of Adobe Lightroom.  This video walks you through how to setup a workflow that incorporates the best of both of these programs. For more detailed ingest tutorial please see my previous video -> vimeo.com/30521015

Photo Mechanic Quick Tutorial – Selective Ingest

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The regular ingest dialog on Photo Mechanic doesn’t allow you to select specific photos to import from your card. This quick tutorial shows you how to achieve this functionality. For more detailed ingest tutorial please see my previous video. vimeo.com/30521015

Adobe Launches Lightroom 4 Beta

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Adobe has opened up a free public beta for Lightroom 4.  Once downloaded, users will be able to use LR4 for free until March 31st.  For users of Lightroom 3 it looks to be a fairly gentle upgrade so far, though Adobe have been known to keep back some killer features until launch time.  The biggest feature, that I guess we were all expecting, is the ability to make simple adjustments to videos.  Exposure, tone, contrast and white balance can all be adjusted and the files can be trimmed.   You can download the free beta HERE on the Adobe …

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Photo Mechanic Video Tutorial

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Ever wandered what it is about Photo Mechanic that has all the top sports photographers using it ?  I’ve put a video tutorial up just now on Shutter Muse that should answer some of those questions !  It walks you through a sample ingest of a memory card and shows you how Photo Mechanic can help you caption hundreds of images individually in just a few minutes! Photo Mechanic Video Tutorial on Shutter Muse

Lightroom Tutorial: Managing Catalogs On The Road

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I’m going to start a series of Adobe Lightroom tips and tutorials because it has become such an integral part of my workflow these days.  The first one I want to tackle is a common scenario for those of us who travel to shoot photos somewhere.  So here’s the scenario; you keep a main Lighroom library that you work off when you are in the office using a desktop computer but you travel with a laptop to shoot an event or a specific project.  While you are away you want to use Lightroom to import your photos from the camera, …

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Sequences re-visited from SBC Skier magazine

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Apologies for the lack of updates in the last couple of week, it’s been busy times here in Whistler.  Today I’d like to post some sequences that were shot last year for SBC Skier magazine here in Canada.  The first four were to be used for “Trick Tips” , where a pro skier describes how someone would go about performing that trick.  The fifth sequence was not shot for that purpose, but it was run as a double page spread so I thought I’d throw it in the mix too.  For anyone wanting to know how to create a sequence …

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Test driving Photoshop CS5?s Content aware fill

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Adobe release Photoshop CS5 a couple of days ago and one of the most talked about features is the content aware fill tool. I recorded a quick demo of it this morning with a couple of potential uses. I don’t think its quite the “black magic” that it seemed to be when Adobe demonstrated it but it could be a time saver in some situations. Just using the tool on its own though rarely does the job, it still needs considerable touching up with the healing tool and brushes but at least it can get you in the ball park …

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How to make a sequence in Photoshop.

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I get asked this question every week so I have finally got round to making a tutorial video about it. Photoshop Tutorial :: How to make a sequence from Dan Carr on Vimeo.