Lightroom 3

(LR*3)+(B*2)=POWER: Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Is Here!

(LR*3)+(B*2)=POWER: Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Is Here!

It’s here! Adobe released Lightroom 3 Beta 2 earlier and there are some nice goodies to play with in Beta 2. Grab it from Adobe Labs now! And if history teaches us anything, Adobe is saving a few tricks up their sleeves for the final release of Lightroom 3. There’s still no official information regarding Continue Reading »

Aperture 3: Is It Time To Switch?

Aperture 3: Is It Time To Switch?

Apple has finally released an update to its image processing software application. Aperture 3 arrived on the scene several days ago. With this release we photographer humans once again raise the question “Is it time to switch?” Since you are reading this on a site called Lightroom Secrets you must know how this will turn Continue Reading »

Lightroom 3 Beta Help Now Available

Adobe today launched the help system for Lightroom 3 Beta! You can access it by pressing F1 while in Lightroom 3 Beta or by pointing your browser at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/index.html . Commenting will be enabled shortly so get ready! for more details visit the article on Phosphors, the blog from the Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge teams!

Managing iPhone Photos in Lightroom 3 Beta

Managing iPhone Photos in Lightroom 3 Beta

Seán McCormack over at Lightroom Blog presents another creative use of the new Publish Services feature in Lightroom 3 Beta. Check out his article on Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos. Already Publish Services is proving to be a flexible and useful addition to Lightroom’s feature set. As this feature matures and third party developers Continue Reading »

Publish to the Cloud

Mark Wilson over at rusticolus images has a new article that shows you how to use Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services to publish your images directly from Lightroom to the cloud. It’s a creative use of the Hard Drive connection to link to Dropbox. Take a minute to read Lightroom 3 Beta – Save photos Continue Reading »

Lightroom 3 Beta's Publish Services - Part 2

Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services – Part 2

In Part 1 we examined how to use Publish Services to control target folders on the hard drive using the Hard Drive Publish Connection. There’s another Publish Service that comes with Lightroom 3 Beta. The Flickr Publish Service allows us to connect Lightroom to a Flickr account (or multiple Flickr accounts) and manage our photostream Continue Reading »

Lightroom 3 Beta's Publish Services - Part 1

Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services – Part 1

Prior to the release of Lightroom 3 Beta we had the ability to upload our images to various online sites via the Export dialog. Jeffrey Friedl provided several excellent plugins for the Export dialog making it easy to export to these online services. He is hard at work turning those into Publish Services. By the Continue Reading »

Lightroom 3 Beta Is Here!

Lightroom 3 Beta Is Here!

Yes! It’s here! Head on over to Adobe Labs and download the Lightroom 3 Beta! Adobe continues its laudable practice of releasing Lightroom as a public beta to get important feedback from its users! Thanks Adobe! First, a word of CAUTION. This is a true beta. DO NOT use this in production! Make copies of Continue Reading »