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Big Note

If you are moving from Aperture to Lightroom, this article and the comments should prove helpful

Never pay a penny for presets – one of 10 tips for new users

 

Articles

The "Lightroom Plan"?

The 20 minute wow

10 tips for new users

Complex File Renaming

Workflow smart collections

Moving from Aperture to Lightroom

Avoid using more than one catalogue

If you have to use multiple catalogues

Keywording – a 3 phase approach

Panel end markers

Essential keyboard shortcuts

Lightroom Solutions

John Beardsworth's Lightroom advice and training, plug-ins and web galleries, custom solutions

MacBookPro M4 test

Testing LR’s GPU export options with the new MacBookPro M4

Frame.io and Lightroom

I've never investigated frame.io until I noticed this intriguing tweet by Adobe's Terry White about its integration with LR and its C2C Camera to Cloud.

Syncomatic 5.1

I’ve just released an update for a minor but annoying bug. Also, in response to a new user’s question, I prepared this quick video (watch in YouTube) showing how to use Syncomatic’s options for syncing items in stacks.

Syncomatic 5


Yesterday I released version 5 of Syncomatic which has some big changes: It’s now a single menu item and dialog box including all ways of matching files It can now copy from Masters to VCs and vice versa, with an option to target only the selected VCs/stack members or to extend the sync to all ...read more

Lightroom 13.3

Lightroom 13.3 is out today, and I recommend you watch Julieanne Kost’s excellent video on the new AI-powered Generative Remove tool introduced in Lightroom 13.3. Stay till the end – the three quick tips are real timesavers. In some cases you may not want or be allowed to publish any AI-generated content in a photograph, ...read more

Video Metadata 2.1


I've updated my Video Metadata plugin with a small but potentially-useful option suggested by a user - saving the Will Export keywords to the video.

Lightroom 13 – if you read anything….

If you read anything about the newly-released Lightroom 13, put aside any of your thoughts about HDR and read this article High Dynamic Range Explained by Adobe's senior engineer Eric Chan. To me Adobe's prioritising HDR editing is an educated bet on where we are going to be in the not-too-distant future, it's Adobe trying to get ahead of the game, and only time will tell - no matter how useless I find it.

Capture Time to EXIF updates


I've recently added a couple of new features to my Capture Time to EXIF plugin both requested by users - you can now set much older dates, and when updating multiple images, you can now add various intervals to each image in the batch.